2/29/12 Report - More on Recent Florida Legislation Affecting Treasure Hunting

Hey, we have an extra day. Happy Leap Day! It's a good thing too. I need the extra day. Due to the overwhelming interest in the recent Florida state legislation (Bill 868) I'm postponing some other topics that I had planned. I received a lot of email in response to yesterday's post. It's amazing how much reach and power this little blog has. Hundreds of thousands of hits and growing rapidly. I

2/28/12 Report - Florida Bill 868 & How To Lose Your Freedoms

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.Coins From the Nuestra Senora de las MercedesThe edited photo is from the following linked CBS story.http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-502927_162-57385741/spain-rejects-peruvian-claim-to-shipwreck-treasure/As you might know, coins like these recovered by Odyssey Marine from what appears to be the wreck of the

2/27/12 Report - Gold Bars, Sand, & Lodging

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.Just Something Real Pretty To Look At.This photo is from the Sotheby's catalog entitled Magnificent Coins of the Spanish World, which is the auction for the The Archer M. Huntington Collection.Here is the link to a site where you can find the catalog.http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2012/

2/25/12 Report - Modern Mexican Silver & Another Front Moving Through

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.Mexican Silver Ring.I mentioned before that marked silver Mexican jewelry is collected. This piece is clearly marked and I managed to get a photo of the marking.First, you can see the purity of the silver. It is sterling (925) silver. Mexican silver can be found in other purities, such as 800, 880, and 980

2/24/12 Report - Gold Coins & Silver

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.Silver Ring Find.Goth? Mexican Silver? Sterling? Coin Silver? Vintage? I'll get into that more some other day real soon.Personally I like seasoned silver better than brand new as long as it isn't corroded too much. In my opinion, some history and a little oxidation adds character to nice heavy vintage pieces.

2/23/12 Report - Important Coin From Reign of William the Conqueror Found & US Air Force Ships Tons of Coins to Spain

Nice Surfing Waves on the Treasure Coast This MorningThere were a lot of surfers out this morning. Also a lot of snowbirds along A1A.I put a video of surfing on YouTube this morning. Unfortunately I didn't have my best camera with me. Nonetheless, if you want to see the wave action it is on TheTreasureGuide channel on YouTube.The surf was up. There were some nice waves, but that was deceiving in

2/22/12 Report - Comparing Diggers & Silver Prices

Old Sailing Ships Are Works of Art.Last week when I was off-beach, I used a digger that I hadn't used before. On the beach I almost always use a stainless steel scoop with a long handle. At the site I was at the other day, I didn't want to use such a big scoop for various reasons. For one thing, I didn't want to make big holes.I selected the black plastic digger shown in the photo below that day.

2/21/12 Report - Conditions Report & Video

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.One Old Cut On the Treasure Coast This Morning.This is the remains of a cut that was made a week or so ago. Since then it has filled in some.There is a bunch of mushy sand at the bottom of the cut. The recent high tide was doing nothing other than wetting the front of the old deteriorated cut this morning.The

2/20/12 Report - Gold 1715 Fleet Ring & More

Written by the Treasureguide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.Gold Engraved 1715 Fleet Ring for Sale on eBay.The asking price is $3000. It has a Fisher certification. I'm not recommending that you buy this or anything. I just thought you might like to take a look at it. Always be careful when buying online. There are a lot of fakes and scams out there. I personally

2/18/12 Report - From Silver to Rust

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.Nice Reale.A lot of us on the Treasure Coast spend most of our time looking for something like this. Everybody in the world would recognize this as treasure, but treasure comes in many forms, and you can't always find one of these. That is why I like to be aware of a broad range of things that can be useful

2/17/12 Report - Bullet Find & Researching Detector Finds

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.Variety of Bullets.I posted this photo a few days ago to show a variety of bullet finds. I thought the one at the bottom might be an "anti-aircraft" bullet. Someone once told me that. I guess that is partly right.Anyhow, I received a great email from Kevin B. He said it was probably a Browning 50 caliber

2/16/12 Report - A Few Detecting Tips

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.This Mornings Finds.Nothing exciting. I decided to do a little scouting around and went to a park that I hadn't detected for a number of years. It isn't on the ocean. The ocean beaches that I've seen have been building the past couple of days. They weren't very good looking at all, so I felt like doing

2/16/12 Report - WWII & Nature's Beach Renourishment

Written by the TreasureGuide exclusively for treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.Tons of Sand Dumped on the Beach by Mother Nature.As usual, the front passed through a few days ago and now the wind has shifted and is coming from the southeast. And as is often the case, that means the sand is being washed up onto the beaches.Two or three days ago I was showing you a three foot cut that ran over a

2/14/12 Report - Valentines Day - Some Common Gold Detector Finds

Written by the Treasureguide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.Couple of Gold Religious Medallions Found With Metal Detector.Well this is your last chance to detect for Valentine's Day. Here are photos of some common types of finds. Religious medallions are common finds. Often when a chain breaks, the medallion goes flying and gets buried in the sand a distance from the

2/13/12 - 50 Excellentes Gold Coin

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.50 Excellentes.Now that is a coin that would look very nice in a sand scoop, and that is the way it should be displayed. It is one of the more impressive coins from the Archer M. Huntington Collection that I've been talking about. It weighs almost five ounces and was minted in the 15th Century during the

2/12/12 Report - Huge Sotheby's Spanish Coin Auction & A Little Beach Experiment

Written by the TreasureGuide of the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.Only two more detecting days left before Valentines Day!Photo Received by Email From Sotheby's.The Archer M. Huntington Collection of 37,895 coins relating to the history of Spain will be sold as a single lot at auction by Sotheby's ending on 8 March 2012. You can pick up this nice collection if you have

2/11/12 Report - Dollar Coins Possible Boon to Detectorists & Some Fabulous Spanish Coins

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.Photo Received In Email From Sotheby's.I'll have more information on what is probably one of the most impressive collections of Spanish coins in the world along with more photos of some other really exceptional coins from that collection in my next post.According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO),

2/10/12 Report - Favorite Finds & Dredging Projects

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.Some Nice Finds by Steve S.As you might know the Sebastian Inlet is being dredged. One person emailed me asking if there might be something in the dredged sand that is being dumped south of the inlet. That is a distinct possibility and worth checking out.I do know that Spanish shipwreck coins have been found

2/8/12 Report - The Revenge & Cleaning Silver Finds

Written by the Treasueguide for the exclusive use of treasuebeachesreport.blogspot.com.Treasure Coast Beach Being Reshaped This Morning.This beach is very mushy and has a lot of new sand on it. This morning however there was this one spot where it was being cut a little. That cut (shown in the photo) is one to two feet. Still, most of the beach was mushy.Another beach that I looked at briefly

2/7/12 Report - Guinea Pigs, Broken Gold Chains, Old Maps and More

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.Broken Gold Chains.As you would expect, it is not easy to detect small gold chains, especially broken chains. And many chains that are lost are broken. In the photo above you can clearly see where the thicker chain is broken near the clasp.The very thin chain to the right of that is also broken. That one was

2/6/12 Report - Revolutionary War Naval Battle For Army Payroll Off Cape Canaveral & More

Written by the Treasureguide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.New Sand on Treasure Coast Beach This Morning.I was a bit surprised by how much new shelly sand was on this beach front. This beach had three-foot cuts a few days ago. Now, not only are the cuts gone but a lot of new (lighter color shell sand) is on the front of the beach.You can see that the water came up

2/4/12 Report - Slight Improvement in Treasure Coast Conditions & Miscellaneous Beach News

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.One Treasure Coast Treasure Beach This Morning.These were three-foot cuts here. I'm increasing my beach conditions rating to a two again.There was a lot of ankle-deep mushy sand in front of the cut, so conditions here were not as good as it looks from the photo alone. Look for a few scattered spots around

2/3/12 Report - Odyssey Marine, A Lake Wreck and Current Conditions

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.Divers Inside the Costa Concordia.That is an amazing photo. I found it on an AP article listed as anonymous. On another web site I found a similar, or maybe the same photo, crediting the Italian Navy, which I think is probably right.Shares of Odyssey Marine stock were over $3.90 per share for a while

2/2/12 Report - Beach Conditions Back to 1 Temporarily

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.1879 Penny Found in County Park That Was Dedicated in 1970. Find and photo submitted by James F.Just because a site doesn't appear to be old doesn't mean it isn't.A few days ago I mentioned how sites often have older layers under them. The same things that make them attractive now were also found attractive