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Archaeologists have excavated the foundations of a seventeenth-century house in Williamsburg, Virgina.
A torrential spring downpour had left a sea of mud at a construction site in the old Virginia capital of Williamsburg, but archaeologist Jack Gary seemed oblivious to the muck as he held out a small silver disk. That morning in 2024, his team had discovered the worn Spanish half real in the cellar of a demolished colonial-era manor house. The coin had been minted, Gary explained, in Lima, Pe
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