Key Coin Discoveries | The Curse of Oak Island

[Katya] All right, guys.
We’re gonna go around the ferns down to the beach.

Marty Lagina, his nephew Peter Fornetti,
and metal detection expert Katya Drayton
search for clues between a mysterious rectangular feature
and a rounded stone foundation near the shoreline.

[Marty] Lot 5 has been a better place to look than just anywhere.
I’m still hoping to find something interesting, something valuable — a clue.

Actually, Katya, you know where I brought the skid steer in and disturbed all the soil here?

[metal detector beeping]
[metal detector whooping]

[Katya] There is definitely something over here, too.

Yeah, that’s a good signal.
[Katya] That’s a great signal. That’s pretty deep.

Oh, yeah. That’s out. Pinpoint.
[metal detector beeping]

Here we go.

What do you got?
Wow. Here, clean it up a little bit.

[Marty] That’s not just a shard of metal because it’s got something going on right there.
There is some sort of attachment here.

[Katya] Yeah, looks like it has a fastener on it.

Tell you what it is — it’s lab-worthy.

Mm-hmm?
That’s right.
So that’s good.

[Katya] Okay.
[Marty] All right, so all this rigmarole to get that rock might have been worth it — if this means something.

Mm-hmm.

[Peter] I mean, look at the proximity to the rectangular feature.
[Marty] Right.
[Peter] Just an inch or two outside of where they were digging.

And so, if this could be a clue to figure out what the heck was going on here and how it associates to the Money Pit…
Yeah, I think there’s something here.

That’s certainly a possibility.
This thing might mean something.
It might tell us who was there and when — and that would be a big deal.

It could very well be significant.
So bag it, please, and we’ll analyze it.

Sounds great.

Let’s go onto something else.
[Katya] Perfect.
[Marty] Way to go, you guys.
[Katya] Yeah.

[Rick] On Lot 5, there’s a mystery there wrapped in an enigma.

[narrator] Rick Lagina and members of the team have joined Laird Niven and Emma Culligan in the Oak Island Laboratory.

I mean, it really is confusing.
But in its confusion, artifacts come up to the surface, right?

We have one here — Katya and Peter and Marty found it.

[narrator] Laird and Emma have just completed their preliminary scientific analysis on the metal artifact that was unearthed one day ago on Lot 5.

What I think is really cool about where we found this is — it was really near the rectangular feature.
Then Katya came through and was metal detecting on the tracks.
And this is where we found that.

So it was kind of the skid steer turning up a little bit of the material that brought this to life.

Emma, what can you tell us about that?

[Emma] So it is a cast-iron pot.
There is a slight phosphorus content.
But this would not affect the quality of the iron whatsoever — because it is cookware.

[Rick] And you’re certain that that’s what that is, based on the curvature?
[Laird] That’s what we think.

Yeah.

[Emma] The high phosphorus content that’s present throughout an iron creates an iron that is brittle during colder climates and prone to breaking — which suggests it being pre-1800s.

I find that Industrial Revolution is when they really started to stray away from cast-iron pots.
So it fits in with the time period of 1700s — it could go into the 1600s.

[Rick] Wow. Quite stunning.
[laughs] Oh my gosh.

Okay, Katya.
We’re on. We’re on Lot 5.
And this thing has given up a lot.
But today it’s gonna give up more, right?

I’m hoping.

Marty and Katya are expanding their search south of the rounded feature to look for new clues.

Yes, sir.
[detector turns on]
[detector beeping]

[Marty] Aha. That sounds pretty good.
It does. It’s registering pretty good.

And it looks nonferrous, so…
Let’s have a go.

Right under that rock.
Come on. Be something good.
[Katya] Come on.

[Marty] All right. Maybe that might’ve loosened things up.
[beeping]

Ooh. That sounds a lot better out.
[rapid beeping]

Ooh!
A button?
What is that — a coin?

I don’t think that’s a button.
Wowzer.

Does it look like a coin?
I think that’s a coin.
I think that’s a really old coin.
All right! Way to go, Katya!
[laughs]

[Marty] That looks like a very old coin to me.
[Katya] Oh my gosh. It does.

It almost looks like there’s a cross on it.
Really? Oh, yeah.
Right there and right there.

Mm. I think it might be copper, ’cause it’s…
Yeah, I think it’s copper.
It’s tinted green, and only copper does that.

[Marty] A coin is really exciting.
Katya and I look at each other, and I know what she’s thinking.
And I know what I’m thinking.

This is the Roman coin area.
And that is, you know… hugely exciting.

Hey, you nailed it.
You said it was nonferrous right off the bat.
Good on you.

Thank you.

[Marty] I’m impressed.

I’m so excited about this.
This is amazing.

Okay, Katya, let me call big brother.
Honestly, he’ll want to see this.

[Marty] Come on over here. We think this is good.

[Billy] When Marty calls — gotta be good.
[Gary] Come here.

I’m coming!
[laughter]

I’m telling you — your daughter was pretty excited.

Ready?

[Gary] Oh… That is… Oh, that’s nice.
[Rick] Mm-hmm.
[Gary] Ooh, that’s old.

[Marty] Is it?
[Gary] Yeah. It might be identifiable, ’cause there is writing around the edges.
Partly corroded away.

[Gary] Yeah. Definitely not a button.
That’s a coin.
This… this is pre-1600s.

Yeah, this is an old one.
Wow.

Did me proud, Katya.
Thank you.

[narrator] Could Gary be correct that this copper coin may be more than 400 years old?
If so, might it be related to the Portuguese silver coin — and help identify just who was behind the Oak Island mystery?

The more you look at it, the more stuff you can see on it.
So the lab’s gonna see stuff.

[Gary] Yeah.
[Billy] Yeah.
The CT scanner will.
[Marty] Mm-hmm.

[Gary] Yeah. It’s irregular shaped.
It’s nice and thick.
But it’s also not… deteriorated.

You know, I think it just was that — sort of like a crude shape.

[Katya] Older metals also have purer compositions.
You know, the metals are just… they’re better.
They don’t rot like the nails I’ve been finding.

This would be a hammer coin?
[Gary] Yeah, it would have been a hammered coin.

Oh my God. That is absolutely gorgeous.

[Marty] I just hope it tells a tale.

[Rick] I hold the coin, and… I can see things on the face. So, at that point, it’s really become quite exciting.

I mean, we’ve already found five coins — Roman era coins — on Lot 5 that have been authenticated metallurgically.

The coin will tell you what it is.
And that provides immense hope amongst all of us.

That’s a top-pocket find.

You ain’t got any top pockets.
I know.
[Marty] That’s what Dad’s for.

Well done, Katya.

Thank you.
That is brilliant.
Makes me proud.
That’s fantastic.
That means the world to me.
[Gary] Yeah.
Let’s get back to work, Katya.
[Rick] Great find.
That’s cool.

Key Coin Discoveries | The Curse of Oak Island

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