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Tonight, on The Curse of Oak Island.

Everything that we dug up led us to this area being the money pit. We just need

to find the right spot in depth.

If it's there, we should find it.

Fiona, it was shining in the sun. Hallelujah!

Oh, is that it?

Oh!

There we go. Yeah.

It's in with a time period of 1 ,500.

It's probably the coolest thing that I've looked at. Really?

Valuation, sky's the limit.

Oh, my gosh.

Yeah.

There is an island in the North Atlantic where people have been looking for an

incredible treasure for more than 200 years.

So far, they have found a stone slab with strange symbols carved into it, man

-made working that date to medieval times, and a lead cross whose origin may

connected to the Knights Templar.

To date.

six men have died trying to solve the mystery and according to legend

one more will have to die before the treasure can be found

We came in with a purpose this year, and the purpose was to put every borehole

in the bottom of the solution channel.

Yeah, absolutely.

As a new day begins on Oak Island, brothers Rick and Marty Lagina and their

are energized by the belief that they could finally be on track to solve a 230

-year -old treasure mystery.

Everything that we dug up led us to this area being the money pit. We just need

to find the right spot in depth.

Beneath 150 feet.

Yeah.

Whatever was put in the Money Pit fell to where it could fall no more. I need a

solution check. So if it's there, we should probably... Yeah, time's going to

tell.

The team is currently drilling a borehole in the fabled Money Pit area

J9.

A borehole.

Located where they believe the original treasure shaft, first discovered in

1795, has collapsed after more than two centuries of repeated excavations and

fallen into a massive natural cavity in the bedrock known as the solution

channel, between 150 and 220 feet underground.

We're looking for what hopefully Plato found in 1849.

After the collapse, I think it's all down there. The whole thing is down.

Exactly.

This is a coin that was given to me that, from my own research, I believe is

from about 1367.

Wow.

One week ago, the team was presented with a 14th century silver Portuguese

believed to be related to the Portuguese sect of the Knights Templar, known as

the Knights of Christ.

According to the coin's current owner, Steve Solomon.

It was recovered during a drilling operation in 1849 from nearly 100 feet

in the money pit by James Pitt Blado, a drilling foreman who kept the discovery

a secret.

You got a cord, gentlemen?

Looks like, yeah. You got another bag?

Now, having already detected high -trace evidence of precious metals in water

deep underground, they are hoping to prove.

that the coin is genuine by finding many more in the solution channel.

158. 158?

Yeah. Let's see what we got.

None of the previous work got to the bottom of the solution channel, where a

treasure fallen to those depths could hide.

And what do we got here?

There could be a lot more coins hiding in there. I think there are ample

opportunities here to find out.

These are chunks of limestone.

Nothing yet, Charles.

Nothing yet.

What's your suspected depth of the bottom of the system channel here?

In this area, in between 210 and 250.

So the key would be to find any evidence of treasure.

That's your target. Turn immediately to recovery, and that would probably mean a

big dig.

Let's find it. We're still a ways away, so call me if you find anything.

Oh, absolutely. You're my first call.

We're going to keep our eyes peeled.

As the core drilling operation continues in the Money Pit area,

nearly half a mile away on Lot 5.

All right, guys.

We're going to go from the ferns down to the beach.

Marty Lagina, his nephew Peter Fernetti, and metal detection expert Katja Dragan

search for clues between a mysterious rectangular feature and a rounded stone

foundation near the shoreline.

Proceed.

After the surprising discovery of these two buried features back in 2022,

the team has made astonishing finds that suggest both may have been used as

campsites by different groups over a number of centuries prior to the

of the money pit.

These finds include a lead barter token that, just like the 14th century lead

cross discovered at Smith's Cove, may be related.

to the Knights Templar.

Another curious clue is a mortar -like material that has been found in both

features, which has been scientifically matched to soil samples collected from

more than 100 feet deep in the Money Pit area.

There we go. It's a two -way signal.

Sounds good.

This occupation we know occurred potentially through several time

Amongst other things, we have direct connection between Lot 5 and the money

already. Lot 5 could give us clues as to when and by who the treasure itself

might have been deposited.

So that could be very meaningful.

That's a rock.

That's a rock. How big is it?

That's a big rock.

Oh, that's a big boulder.

You know what?

There is a pry bar left from an earlier job right over here.

See if we can move it this way.

This guy.

Which one?

Put it long ways right there.

This is vaguely reminiscent of being 10 years old again. Here we are with the

lowest of low tech possible.

We've got a great big boulder. We have no hydraulic equipment.

We have a pry bar.

We're going to try and move this boulder out of the way. We need to get out of

the way. We need to know what's under it. I'm going to fall on my face. This

what I'm going to do.

Wish me luck.

Come on, you big mugger.

This rock here refuses to be moved.

There have been a lot of great finds around Lot 5.

And so it's very important to get it. I mean, it could be a gold coin.

It could be a coin with a date on it.

We can't just let that go.

I don't think we have the right equipment.

I think the skid steer will fit in here.

Pete, yes? Yeah.

Okay, well, I will go get the machine and we'll roll it out of there.

Awesome. Okay. Move on.

While Marty retrieves a small excavator to move the boulder on lot five.

Whenever I see iron on the table, I'm excited, obviously.

This could be an important find.

Rick Lagina and other members of the team meet with Laird Niven and Emma

Culligan in the lab.

It came out of H .5 -8 .5, which is 174 to 178 feet deep. It looked very much

like somebody's drill casing, something from before us.

They are about to hear a scientific report on pieces of a believed drill rod

that was recovered over one week ago, just feet away from where they are

currently exploring in the Money Pit area.

If it was somebody's old drill steel that tells us... that somebody else was

interested in this area for reasons we don't know. And Emma, that's where you

come in. Yeah.

Earlier this morning, Emma scanned the metal pieces using the X -ray

Spectrometer, or XRF, a device that can identify the elements in an object's

composition to help determine when it was created.

So the two metals are exactly the same thing, which...

You kind of see just from the look of it that they belong to the same piece.

Based on the list of impurities, it's manganese content.

I would put this around mid -1800s to late -1800s.

The date that Emma is relating to us indicates searcher.

The Truro Company in 1849, when they were doing their drilling and they

up the coin that Pip laid up in his pocket.

In 1849, members of the Truro Company excavated the original money pit down to

depth of nearly 90 feet.

After building a wooden platform at a depth of 30 feet in the pit, they began

drilling operation.

At approximately 100 feet, they reportedly struck two stacked chests,

failed to recover due to catastrophic flooding.

However, the company's foreman, Named James Pitt Blado, it's believed to have

recovered the 14th century silver Portuguese coin from the end of the

They were drilling when they knew where the money pit was.

So my hope is we're going to find more of those Portuguese coins in this area.

That'd be pretty cool.

Yeah, and we know the Truro Company didn't get below any more than 117 feet

their drilling.

So the Great Collapse could have carried this metal down deeper than any known

work at the time. And that area of the solution channel could prove really

interesting.

If this steel correlates to the efforts by the Truro Company to try to find

treasure, that's important because it would mean that we are in the same area

that they were in when they were looking for the vault.

and we have a coin that we suspect might be associated with that, and it is in

this area.

Bottom line, we have an area that we've designated an area of significant

interest, and this supports that.

Given the evidence on the table, we should redouble our effort.

Let's go do it. This could turn

into loose...

Watery material within a foot or two, right? Yep.

While the drilling operation proceeds in the money pit.

I'm just going to try and get right in there and pluck it out.

And then we're done with that rock.

Marty Lagina arrives back on lot five with a small excavator known as a

skid steer.

To move the boulder that is covering what may be an important clue.

The plan to move the rock initially was to try and move it with levers.

It didn't work.

So then it's time to bring in the power of the skid steer.

Oh!

Nothing I like better.

It's kind of hard to move a rock that's in a hole.

There we go.

But we want to get this out because it could be super significant.

And it could be very, very old.

Okay. The rock has moved!

It is accomplished.

Well, is there anything in there?

I don't know.

Please be something in there.

It's so low of a signal, and it's reading very low content. I believe

something here, but not anymore. It disintegrated. Yeah.

It seems that it's a bit of a ghost we were chasing.

Probably there was something in there that corroded a long time ago.

So it's still a bit of a mystery.

We had to do this.

There was a clue potentially under that rock, and it would have driven all of us

crazy if we didn't find out. But we're not going to let the island beat us, so

let's get on to the next test. Yeah, do it.

Lot 5 has been a better place to look than just anywhere.

I'm still hoping to find something interesting, something valuable, a clue.

I actually caught you. You know where I brought the steer in and disturbed all

the soil here? Yeah. Why don't you scan this? What the heck? I'd love to do it.

That'd be great.

There's definitely someone over here, too.

Yeah, that's a good signal. That's a great signal.

That's pretty deep.

Oh, yeah, that's out.

There we go.

There you go.

Wow.

Want to clean it up a little bit?

That's not just a shard of metal because it's got something going on right

there. There is some sort of attachment here.

Yeah, it looks like it has a fastener on it.

I'll tell you what it is. It's lab -worthy.

That's right.

So that's good.

Okay. All right, so all this rigmarole to get that rock might have been worth

if this means something. Mm -hmm.

I mean, look at the proximity to the rectangular feature.

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.

There'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 on to something else.

Perfect.

Way to go, you guys.

As Marty and the team finish their investigation on Lot 5, in the

research center... So, Sandy, I'd like to introduce you to Steve Solomon.

At the request of Rick Lagina, Steve Solomon has agreed to have coin expert

Sandy Campbell examine the 14th century Portuguese coin.

that was reportedly extracted from the original money pit back in 1849.

So this is it.

Interesting.

With his extensive experience, it is the team's hope that Sandy will be able to

confirm the origin of the coin, as well as its potential value.

It's quite cool.

Probably the coolest thing that I've looked at in my time on the island. So,

know, we've had some cool things, but this goes to a different level.

It's a torne de escudo, which means a decorative shield.

It's Portuguese, 14th century.

There's clearly a connection to the Templars because of the design of this

You have the cross.

Here it is here. And that's basically the religious Templar connotation on the

back and the celebration of the king on the other side.

This would be after the Knights Templar were technically disbanded, but there

was still a lot of involvement with the monarch and the Templar, you know,

secretly, obviously.

And this was an ode to the Templar.

It's a fairly unique item because it was only minted from 1367 to probably

83. That's very curious. Interesting.

Although the Order of the Knights Templar were disbanded in 1307, their

treasures were never found, and many fled to nations that offered them safe

harbor, including Portugal.

Is it possible that this coin suggests that their missing valuables were hidden

on Oak Island.

This is exceptional because this coin, whenever it was buried, was brand

spanking new. This was not circulated at all.

You say when it was buried, it was buried for a long time? Oh, this was

definitely buried.

Why do you say that?

If this wasn't buried, it couldn't look like this.

It would get very dark.

If this was sitting in a chest...

and protect it down there it's going to be very slow at 100 feet deep for the

deterioration so this coin here will have silver zinc copper and a touch of

nickel when it was made we have seen those elements in the water testing

that's been done right that's true silver nickel zinc yeah yeah okay i

back and do my due diligence here for my dad what do you think it would fetch

There's a Marty Lagina question.

There you go, right there.

Valuation, you would be shocked. This would be $25 ,000, $30 ,000.

If you find some that aren't deteriorated like this,

you know, guide the limit.

That's amazing.

Let's give my dad a call.

Hey. Hey, Alex, what's up?

So just a quick question for you. I need your help with some math here.

In the Oak Island Research Center, members of the team called Marty Lagina

inform him that the 14th century Portuguese coin reportedly found in the

original money pit back in 1849 may be worth more than $20 ,000 in

today's value.

So if we have a coin on the table that's worth, say, $20 ,000, perhaps more.

All right.

What would be the approximate value of an entire chest full of those?

Oh, man, Alex.

Seriously? Yeah.

According to Sandy, it could fetch quite a bit. Yeah. That's amazing.

Let's just call it $20 ,000 for one.

That's $2 million for 100.

That's $20 million for 1 ,000. Yep.

And that's $200 million, or $0 .2 billion for 10 ,000.

A chest of coins such as that could easily be a billion dollars. Yeah,

amazing.

All it does is speak to the value of what might lie below.

Yeah. All right.

Really, if Mr.

Pitblato found that coin, then where are the rest of them?

Yeah, there should be more of them.

Look, we found all kinds of really interesting things and intriguing clues

things that make you wonder what in the heck happened on this island.

It looks quite likely to me that this coin is a piece of treasure that was

extracted from deep in the money pit.

And that means that there's a lot more down deep in the solution channel.

Now you can stop asking me if there's a treasure in the money pit.

Show me where to dig.

I'll find them.

I'm on board with that.

All right. Well, guys, thanks for the call. Good job all.

Keep me posted.

Yeah, we'll keep you posted. Thanks, Marty.

Thank you very much. Take care.

The focus here for me is, you know, why was it put there?

You don't cross the oceans with money and put in a 100 -foot shaft protected

a flooding system.

It's something else, some intent, some purpose.

Truthfully, if the numbers reached a billion dollars or even more.

I'm not surprised by that, but I think there's something far more valuable.

There's a real treasure here, a monetary treasure in something else. Secret

information, secret knowledge has allowed this treasure mystery to endure

230 years.

I've always believed it since I was a little boy. I believe it yet today as I

sit here. We just have to find it.

Sandy, Steve, thank you both very much. The raising of the level of excitement

wouldn't have happened without the both of you. The Oak Island story is alive

and well.

And at this point, all that remains to be said is we need to find it.

Let's go. Let's do it. All right.

Rick and other members of the team conclude their meeting in the Oak Island

Research Center.

We'll take that corner down, too. Yep.

And I'll probably work with you over here. Yes, please.

Over on Lot 5, archaeologist Fiona Steele and other members of the team

to search for clues in the rounded stone foundation near the shoreline.

Fiona? Yeah?

I think this is red with glaze on it.

Okay, you know what? I think that looks like black Anglo -American ware.

The Anglo -American ware is a coarse earthenware.

It could be anywhere from 1600s to 1800s.

There's a body of evidence from the Lot 5 feature that literally spans

centuries. How do you explain that?

Good eyes.

The archaeologists are intrigued by the feature, and more and more information

continues to come out of the ground. So you have to go where the information

takes you.

Well, hallelujah.

My first button.

Wow. That's good eyes, because they're hard to see when you're with the rocks.

Yeah, you totally found a button. Well,

and you can see the shank there.

It's kind of flattened down.

Buttons are falling off all the time, and we have found so many here on Lot 5.

Some of the buttons have even had military signs on them. We have found

starburst button. That one is really, really old. That could even possibly go

back to medieval times.

Another mysterious button?

and found close to where the team unearthed the so -called starburst

which may be related to the Knights of Malta?

Could the team have possibly found another piece of evidence that may help

identify one of the groups who used this feature prior to the discovery of the

money pit?

And if so, what their purpose there was?

Every button that we find adds to our picture of what we think might be

happening here.

I do think that this structure is connected to the money pit and the story

Oak Island itself.

There's so much evidence in relation to the artifacts that give us the

timelines, and these timelines really all predate the money pit discovery.

So that's why we never let anything go unexplored.

Yay!

That's the end of the day so far.

Well done.

That's exciting.

While the investigation on Lot 5 continues.

Back in business, Rick.

Several hundred yards to the east at Smith Cove.

Rick,

Gary, and Billy are continuing to search through the spoils that were extracted

during the large -scale digs in the Money Pit area one year ago.

After finding a tunneling tool one week ago that may date back to the 1600s and

possibly connected to a deposit of treasure, now they are hoping to recover

piece of those potential valuables.

Oh, nice.

Chain? No, I don't believe so. No, it's not.

Some kind of oak. Yeah.

My thought is the curve looks like it's not damaged.

So you could hang something off it. That went into the wall with a sharpened

end. You hang something right in there.

Yeah. I mean, it makes sense.

Yeah, it looks like kind of a refashioned square shanked fastener.

The oldest type square shank fastener.

Dang stuff.

Yeah, I think this is old, mate. I think this could go back to the same period,

all the rest.

of those iron fasteners and tools that were finding in these money pit spoils

which would be 1600s or older that'd be fantastic all right i'll put this in the

pouch yep i don't think any of us want to quit on this attempt to find whatever

we can in the spoils but i think there's more to be found it's exciting The

Money Pit's oil piles are huge because they accumulate.

There could be anything in them. The hope is that we will find some serious

clues associated with the treasure in the Money Pit area.

Well, there we go.

Just in there.

Oh, is that it?

Oh, this is beautiful.

That's really nice.

Oh, beautiful square nail.

While searching through last year's Money Pit spoils, Rick, Gary and Billy

just made an exciting discovery.

And that looks suspiciously like our old friend.

Rosehead. Yep, you got that right, mate. That's a Rosie.

A whole lot of rosy going on here.

Yeah. It's cool.

It's definitely an old plasma.

There's no mistaking, when you see that beveled edge going around there, they

made the shaft and then did the edge separate.

And when this was hammered into wood, that's when all these facets were made.

They resemble those rose head petals.

Is it broken off? Oh, yeah.

Yeah, that would have been twice as long.

And if you look at the size of it, it wouldn't have been a lot bigger. We're

a treasure hunt, mate. That could have been out of a treasure chest.

Really could.

You've got a big chest.

You've seen the silver coins.

I mean, they would have been heavy. They would have needed a big chest.

To your point, it's not like they're only for creating a shaft.

No. You can look at old doors and chests and you see rosehead spikes all the

time. Will it connect?

in some way to the efforts done long ago in the money pit in Smith's Cove.

That's the hope.

Okay, mate. That's a really great find, mate. Do you want to do the honors and

put it in the bag of goodies?

Sure. It's got to go to Emma, obviously.

It's a cool find.

Yeah. Stock up with coffee because you're going to be busy, Emma.

As the search for evidence of treasure continues at Smith's Cove.

Hey, Steve. How you doing?

Got to the bottom of J9?

Yep.

In the Money Pit area, Terry Matheson, Charles Barkhouse, and Steve Guptill are

about to examine the final two core samples that were recovered in borehole

that reached the bottom of the solution channel at a depth of 216 feet.

Hit the bottom of the solution channel at 216.

Now that's 26 feet of recovery.

That's pretty good.

Got some loose material here. It looks kind of intriguing and interesting.

That's potentially the kind of stuff we're looking for.

Something that might indicate there was a treasure chest there in the immediate

vicinity. There's some treasure broke up in the area. Yeah, I haven't run my

pinpointer over it yet, so I'll do that.

Every single one of these cores needs to be metal detected because this is the

heart of the solution channel, and this is the depth where we're looking for

treasure. Anytime we see that loose material in the solution channel, that

that treasure can fall to the bottom when we see that.

Clean, gentlemen.

It's not going to be in this.

You know what, though? We got good information.

This is one of the deepest hits we've ever had in a solution channel, so we

it's a deep canal or channel in here at least.

Yeah. I think Emma should look for precious metals in this.

I think you're right. I would say the area between 208 and 211 is the loosest,

and potentially there could be something in there, something that might indicate

there's some treasure in the area.

Yeah. Back in 2024,

the team conducted new water tests here that confirmed high traces of gold and

silver more than 100 feet underground.

Two weeks later... Stop.

Caving. Caving all the way back.

The ground in this area collapsed as the team conducted a major excavation,

which led them to believe that the possible treasure now lies more than 200

deep in the solution channel.

Now, the team is collecting soil samples to have them tested for more trace

evidence of precious metals.

Look how loose that is.

Yeah. Here we go.

That does it? Yep. If those tests yield positive results, it will help the team

plan their most ambitious excavation yet in the hopes of finally recovering the

long -lost treasure.

The next hole, we're not going to go far from this hole. All right, I'm going to

go drop the gyro. We'll get that information, and we'll move on.

Yep, absolutely.

As a new day dawned, and while members of the team begin drilling a new

in the Money Pit area.

On Lot 5, there's a mystery there wrapped in an enigma.

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.

Katja and Peter and Marty found it.

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.

And then Katya came through and was metal detecting on the track.

And this is where we found that. So kind of gets your turning up a little bit of

the material that brought this to life.

Emma, what can you tell us about that?

So it is a cast iron pot. There is a slight phosphorus content, but this

not affect the quality of the iron whatsoever because it is cookware. And

certain that that's what that is based on the curvature?

That's what we think.

Yeah. The high phosphorus content that's present throughout an iron creates an

iron that is brittle during colder climates and is prone to breaking, which

suggests... that being pre -1800s.

I find that Industrial Revolution is when they really started to stray away

cast iron pots.

So it fits in with the time period of 1700s.

It could go into the 1600s. Wow, quite stunning.

Oh, my God.

So it's cast iron pots.

Fits in with the time period of 1700.

It could go into the 1600s. Oh, my gosh.

In the Oak Island Laboratory, Emma Culligan has just informed Rick Lagina

other members of the team that the remains of a cooking pot found by Marty,

Katya, and Peter one day ago on Lot 5 could date as far back as the 17th

century. So this was probably used by someone who was... associated with the

features. I think that's a reasonable assumption.

And the neat thing about cast iron pots is I don't believe in the 1700s they had

the ability to cast anything in Nova Scotia. No, they didn't. So it was made

Europe and then brought here whole.

Could Laird be correct that this piece of a possible 17th century cooking pot

was likely brought to Oak Island by someone of European origin?

If so, who was it?

And what were they doing on Lot 5?

We've all broken things, right?

If you don't pick it up, the whole thing's there.

Yeah. Because this island's just strange with all of these one -offs.

So between the round feature and the rectangular feature, we have hundreds of

pieces, but nothing whole.

We certainly haven't found a whole pot.

No. And that's what's troubling to me is...

Is this an attempt by whomever to police the site to hide something?

I don't know. If they just picked up the larger pieces and threw them in the

ocean or took them with them.

The foundation itself, before it was discovered, was under several feet of

was it not? Yeah, and rock. So everything's well covered.

It's a possibility that they were hiding something there.

Yeah. Everything that comes from Lot 5, hopefully, can help solve that mystery.

Because if you can put this back in the 1600s, then the who becomes maybe

attainable, right? Yeah, I agree. Right around that area, we had found

tradeways, buttons that connect with the Knights of Malta, some other very old

artifacts, but we get something different here. Yeah.

That could be important.

That cast iron may give us a clue to who else was active in that area.

Could Rick and Doug be correct that this fragment of a cooking pot offers more

evidence that someone deliberately covered up the two foundations as well

traces of their activity on Lot 5 back in the 1600s?

If so, could other potentially 17th century artifacts that have been

nearby help identify just...

Who it was.

Truthfully, I wish I could say Lot 5 was done by this group of people.

Could it be the Knights of Malta or something associated with the Templars?

Sure, it could.

But some of the artifacts go back into medieval times, you know, 14, 15, 1600.

But for right now, I think we're done.

We need to get back to work. All right. See you later.

See you.

That's Rick, Peter, and Doug.

conclude their meeting in the lab.

Okay, Katya, we're on.

We're on lot five, and this thing has given up a lot, but today it's going to

give up more, right? I'm hoping.

On lot five, Marty and Katya are expanding their search south of the

feature to look for new clues.

There.

That was pretty good. It does. It's registering pretty good.

And it looks non -ferrous.

Let's have a go right under that rock.

Come on, beat something good. Come on.

All right. Maybe that might loosen things up.

Ooh, that sounds a lot better out.

There you go. There we are.

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.

That looks like a very old coin to me. Oh, my gosh. It does.

It almost looks like there's a cross on it. Really?

Oh, yeah.

Right there and right there.

I think it might be copper because it's... Yeah, I think it's copper. It's

tinted green and only copper does that.

The coin is really exciting.

Katya and I look at each other and, you know, I know what... 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 non -ferrous right off the bat. Good on you.

Thank you.

I'm impressed.

I'm so excited about this. This is amazing. I feel pretty good about this.

Okay, Katja, let me call Big Brother.

Honestly, he'll want to see this.

Okay, all the smiles.

Proud dad coming in. Yeah, dad coming in.

On lot five, Rick, Gary, and Billy arrive after hearing that Marty and

have found a potentially important clue.

Come on over here.

We think this is good.

When Marty calls, it's got to be good.

Gary, come here.

I'm coming in.

Tell you this, your daughter was pretty excited.

Ready?

Oh, that is, oh, that's nice.

Oh, that's old.

Is it? Yeah.

It might be identifiable because there is writing around the edges, partly

corroded away. Yeah, definitely not a button, that's a coin.

This is pre -1600s.

Yeah, this is an old one.

Wow. Did me proud, Katja. Thank you.

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

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 going to

see stuff. Yeah, the CT scanner will... Yeah, it's irregular shaped.

It's nice and thick.

But it's also not...

It's not deteriorated. You know, I think it just was that sort of like a crude

shape. Older metals also have pure compositions.

You know, the metals are just, they're better. They don't rot like, you know,

the nails I've been finding.

This would be a hammer coin?

Yeah, it would have been an hammered coin.

Oh, my God, that is absolutely gorgeous.

I just hope it tells the tale. I hold the coin in.

I can see things on the face.

So at that point, it's really become quite exciting. I mean, we've already

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 the top pocket fine.

He ain't got any top pockets, catch it. I know.

That's what Dad's for. Well done, catch it. Yeah. Thank you. That is brilliant.

Thanks be proud. That's fantastic.

That means the world to me. Yeah. Let's get back to work, catch it. Great find.

That's cool.

The new discovery on Lot 5 and the revelation of a 14th century silver

Portuguese coin suggest that the legends of a sacred and incredibly valuable

treasure may really lie buried on Oak Island.

But as Rick, Marty, Craig, and the team dig deeper than ever in the money pit,

will they find a cache of coins that could literally be worth billions?

And might that be only a small portion of what lies hidden below?

Next time on The Curse of Oak Island.

It's a brand new area we haven't explored on the western side.

Oh!

Look what I'm getting here.

I've done a CT scan.

You can see it faintly right here.

We'll all be damned.

That might tell a story.

We're probably into the void.

If there's the one thing he could have in that four barrel right now.

There you go.