10/31/11 Report - A Few Cut Beaches - Continued Level 2 Beach Conditions Rating

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.Ye Olde Pirate Dog.On stormy moon lit nights you can hear him howl when someone draws near his master's treasure.Happy Halloween! Today I found a couple of beaches that were cut. Below is one of those. One Treasure Coast Beach This Morning.Both beaches were cut about the same. Three foot and sometimes four

10/30/11 Report - Upgraded Beach Conditions

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.The wind was blowing pretty good last night. I decided to see what was happening on the treasure beaches on the Treasure Coast. The following will give you a good idea.Beach at John Brooks Park Before High Tide This Morning.It doesn't look much good, but after high tide the cuts anc scallops were gone. It was

10/29/11 Report - Forecast Looking Promising

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.Bronze Anchor Chain Links.These two big links are bronze. They are from a ship that sank in 1800, and sold for $180 in the Sedwick Coins auction. Yesterday I showed some other items that a detectorist might find and easily pass up. Who would think that two chain links could be worth that much? They could

10/28/11 Report - Other Types of Finds

Written by the Treasureguide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.Meg Tooth.The last two days I showed some of the items that brought high prices in the recent Sedwick Coins auction. Included was a gold 8-reale, gold bar and gold and emerald cross. Those are the types of items that people hunt and would identify almost immediately if they found them, but there are other

10/27/11 Report - Big Bucks for Gold Shipwreck Artifacts.

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.comSold for $190,000.This 1832 Serro Frio gold ingot with its original guia sold for nearly $200,000 in the Sedwick Coins treasure auction that was concluded Wednesday. That would make one nice find, wouldn't it? I'm showing some of the big glitzy stuff today even though I think it is just as important to learn

10/26/11 Report - $25,000 Lima 1715 Fleet Escudo & Rina

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.1714 Lima 8-Escudos From the 1715 Fleet.This rare coin sold for over $25,500 in the Sedwick treasure auction yesterday. That is the highest price I remember seeing for a coin in the auction yesterday. It would be nice to dig up something like that, wouldn't it. It is possible.The ocean was rough this morning

10/25/11 Report - Haunting New Places to Hunt

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.Looking for a new place to detect? Considering the time of year, maybe you're thinking a ghost town or some haunted place? You can find a lot of good treasure hunting leads by searching the internet for haunted places and ghost towns. Stories of hauntings usually are places with a dramatic history - often

10/23/11 Report - Real Eight Company 1977 Auctioned Lots

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.February 1977 Auction Catalog.I've been talking about the upcoming Sedwick Coins auction, but here is a catalog from an auction held back in 1977. Among the coins auctioned were a large number from the Real Eight Company. They also sold artifacts and bars.The auction catalog also gives some of the history of

10/22/11 Report - How to Stay in the Detecting Game

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of the treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.One Treasure Coast Beach Friday.Here are some cuts I found yesterday. Sometimes there are spots where there is a kind of delayed reaction where coins and things show up several days after the beach really gets stirred up.And there are always a few beaches that are a little out of phase. They cut when the

10/21/11 Report - Lesson Learned

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.Gold Band Found by Bernie C.I don't know how many times I've said to dig all signals on a beach. I've explained why more than once too. I don't repeat it as often as I feel like repeating it. Some people just don't like to dig junk, and others, I think, don't really believe me until they learn for

10/20/11 Report - Rainy Days, Junky Truck & Signal Finds

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.comCast Iron Toy Truck.There are all kinds of things you can find. Different people hunt and like different things. I showed this truck to a guy that has found 6000-year-old Folsom points and some very important finds, and he said this truck was a real find. I was surprised. It is funny what some people like.If

10/18/11 Report - Gorget and Clay Pipes

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.Five inch drilled slate gorget with shell necklace. The cord had disappeared. This a great find that has been studied by the Smithsonian.It is a rainy day on the Treasure Coast. Watch for items that have been uncovered by the rain.The seas are a little rough today, but nothing that would really improve

10/17/11 Report - Some Erosion This Morning

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.Couple Detectorists Trying To Remove a Big Deep Target Near Water's Edge Saturday.I think they came away from that hole without the object. It has been there for at least a couple of years and no one else removed it either. They gave it a good shot though.Here is a great video showing the recovery of a cache

10/16/11 Report - Pot Shards and Mystery Object

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.Mystery Object Found This Weekend on the Treasure Coast.I'll start with the whatzit first. It looks like it might be a seed. About three inches long it has one hole on the side you can see. If I turned it over, you would see two more holes spaced so that they look like eyes on the other side. Maybe the three

10/14/11 Report - More Cobs & Hunting Rough Water on the Beach

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.Cobs Found by Dean C.Here is the same eight-reale that I showed the other day,but this photo shows the other side. It was found in the Jupiter area. Notice that the cross is the type used by the Mexican mint. That matches what I thought I saw of the mint mark in the previous photo. Included in the photo above

9/13/11 Report - Beach Rating Change & More On Reading a Beach

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.Dip On Treasure Coast Beach Yesterday.This is the same beach I showed a few days ago (9/98/11 Report) when it was really cut. Very little of the cut remains. In fact, none of the original cut.This beach is a little deceiving though. It looks like it has not eroded at all since the time when it was cut. The

9/12/11 Report - Eight-Reale Found

Written by the Treasureguide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.8 Reale Found by Dean C.Here is a great recent find. I told you before last weekend, I think it was, that there would be some cobs found. This is one photo of a find that was submitted to me a day or two ago.It is reported to have been found "north of Jupiter inlet."I don't know if the photo shows all of the

10/11/11 Report - Sedwick Coins 10th Treasure Auction

I'm going to have to sum up what happened this past weekend and today some other time. I got busy with other things and will have to catch up some other time.I have some finds to clean and photo for a later date.I received a press release from Sedwick Coins so I'll just post it as I received it today.Here goes.SEDWICK ANNOUNCES TENTH AUCTIONWinter Park, FL--Daniel Frank Sedwick, LLC has just

10/10/11 Report - Seal of the Admiral of the 1622 Fleet Found and Identified

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com. Bronze Seal From the Atocha Identified.You might remember when I posted news of this bronze seal being found not too long ago. Research has been done and the owner positively identified.Here is part of an email that I received from the Fisher organization about the seal.Our Historian and Archeologist have

10/8/11 Report - Big Seas Expected Today

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.Beach at Turtle Trail Yesterday - Looking South.I only saw small cuts and some scallops here yesterday. The bad thing was that all you could see was that beach renourishment sand that was trucked in.It would still be worth checking. Either north or south would be ok, but you might want to take a good long

10/7/11 Report - Treasure Coast Beach Conditions & Correction

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.Wabasso Beach This Morning Looking Towards Disney.There was a lot of hard rain and lightening on parts of the Treasure Coast this morning. I don't mind the rain, but prefer to avoid the lightening. I took a look at a variety of beaches to try to get a good idea of what was going on around the Treasure Coast.

10/6/11 Report - Treasure Coast Beaches Start to Improve

Written by the TreasureGuide exclusively for the treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.Treasure Coast Beach Without Erosion This Morning.I'll start right off with a Treasure Coast Treasure Beach Detecting Conditions upgrade this morning. I'm only upgrading to a 2. And that is a borderline two at this point. But it is an upgrade, which is more than we've seen for quite a while.As you might know, my

10/5/11 Report - Seas Start Increasing Today

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.One Typical Treasure Coast Beach This Morning.As most of you know, we are waiting for those big seas that have been predicted. According to the predictions the seas are supposed to start increasing today. I went out this morning near low tide to take a peek to see what was happening, and as you can see from

10/4/11 Report - Predictions of Big Seas Holding & Fossil Shells

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.comBob H. sent in this photo of a recent find wondering what it is?You can see calcite crystals.The other side of the object is shown below. In that photo you can see that it is a fossilized shell with crystal calcite formations.I've shown some of these in the past. They can have value, especially when the

10/3/11 Report - Big Seas Coming

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.comOne Treasure Coast Beach Sunday.I actually visited a number of beaches this weekend and they all looked pretty much like this one. None of them looked any good even though the water had been up pretty high. Mostly a lot of mushy sand and seaweed so far.Below are a couple more beach photos from this weekend. As

10/1/11 Report - Twelve Foot Seas Predicted for Sebastian!!! And Eight Foot Seas for Fort Pierce!!

Written by the TreasureGuide@comcast.net for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.Two Reales Sold on EBay.This one just sold for a few cents under forty dollars.I'll start right off with the big news today. Eight foot seas are predicted for Fort Piece and twelve foot seas for Sebastian. Now that looks promising! There is a very good chance, if that actually happens, that the