CONWAY — A Conway man says he found an old Spanish coin from the 1700s while metal detecting in Fryeburg, Maine, on Tuesday.
Tyler James, 23, displayed the silver Spanish half-real from 1786 while visiting the polls for the Conway town election at the town garage.
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