12/31/12 Report - Happy New Year!

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14K Metal Detector Beach Find

The object shown here is 14K.  It is a very small tag with no inscription or any mark on it.  The bale, however, is marked 14K.  Why someone would wear this unmarked tag is beyond me.  Maybe the intent was to have it inscribed.


I looked back through my posts for the year

12/30/12 Report - Year End Review

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Beach Metal Detector Find.

Maybe you noticed, not only did the hit counter reach 500,000 yesterday, it blew through the half million mark with two days remaining in 2012.


This is the time of year when people tend to look back and then ahead.  It is good for detectorists to look back.  You can learn

12/29/12 Report - Is It Fake or Reale, Blue & White Ceramics and More

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Fake or Real?  Can you tell?
Find and photo by John B.


John B. sent these photos of finds he made on 12/28/12 on Singer Island.  Thanks for the great photos John.

Well, have you made up your mind yet?   See if you can see any tell-tale signs.  It might be a little harder with these photos. 

12/28/12 Report - Damaged Air Force Ring Found & Signs of Gold Holes

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 Here is a broken and flattened ring.   It reads "United States Air Force."  In the top photo, the "UNITED" is upside down, going right to left, starting in the middle, and the "AIR FO" can be seen going right to left.

Obviously the stone is gone.  It appears to be a base metal.

No other information

12/27/12 Report - 18th Century Coin Legends, Scouting Around

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Two Nearly Identical Finds

The other day I documented a walk that I took and showed some of the variety of things that I eye-balled on the trip.   The short trip turned up a variety of miscellaneous objects, many of which are not metallic.  Finds included objects from various age periods and collectible

12/25/12 Report - A Pre Christmas Walk

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I hope you are enjoying your Christmas.  I am.

I didn't expect to even do a post today but had a little time while nibbling on some fresh out of the oven chocolate chip cookies and waiting for some other stuff to cook.  So if the post comes together quickly without much fuss, I'll publish it.

The other

12/24/12 Report - Wishing a Blessed Christmas to All

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Vintage Christmas Card From 1910.




The above card is an actual Christmas card that was sent in 1910.  Unlike most of today's Christmas cards which open, this one, and many like it from the period, are more like a post card even though they were sent in an envelope.  Today it will serve as my

12/22/12 Report - Digging Up Memories

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As We Were.

I had a dream last night in which I visited the town where I grew up.  In the dream I saw places where there were once old buildings that are now gone.  The dream reminded me of when I visited the home site where I was raised and my elementary school.   I was fortunate to be able to detect

12/21/12 Report - Testing Silver and Gold & More

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I'm a little late today.  Was waiting to see if the world came to an end.  If it did, I missed it.

Anyhow, on with today's post.


Well, well, well.   I just learned something new a little while ago.  

You probably know how to use an acid test kit to test gold and silver.  I've covered that in this blog

12/20/12 - Mystery Chain, Colonial Mission Life & Old Bottles

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Found Chain.

Here is a chain that seems to be gold-filled.  I think it might it might be a pocket-watch chain.  What do you think?


Here is a web site that gives a picture of life at a colonial mission -  Mission Dolores to be specific.  It talks about the Ais and shows some nice colonial artifacts.  

12/19/12 Report - Worm Reef at Bathtub Beach & Some Big Gold Discoveries

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Ancient Gold Necklace
Photo from cashforgold.com. See link below.

I often mention Bathtub Beach and often receive questions about detecting there.  One thing you should know about if do detect there is the Sabellariid Worm reef.  Be very careful not to destroy the reef.

Here is an article about that.

12/18/12 Report - Gold Medallion, Shipwreck Pottery, New Scanable Coins

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High Carat Medallion

The religious medallion shown here is a Treasure Coast beach find and tests over 18K.   It is surprisingly heavy, being about three times the thickness of similar medallions.  It isn't marked at all. 

There is one book on Spanish Colonial Shipwreck Pottery that sells for over $150

12/17/12 Report - Gold Ring Finds & Research

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Couple 14K Beach Finds.

Beach detecting conditions haven't been good for finding old things lately, so there are a few things you can do until conditions improve.   One is scout out the few more promising areas that do exist and hunt them well.   Another is try a different type of hunting or take a

12/16/12 Report - Beach Conditions and Photos


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Jensen Beach From the North End.

It seems action on the beach has been a little slow lately.   It appears that not many people are visiting the beaches on the weekend and not many people detecting.  I would guess that part of that is the time of year.  There are a lot of Christmas activities now and

12/15/12 Report - Atocha Finds, Gold Coin Hoard & Large Coil

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Some of the Gold Hoard Mentioned Below.
Photo from KSL.com. 

I know you have all heard about the shooting, but I have to take time to mention it.  A lot of things in life don't really matter much, and you have to stop and put things in perspective once in a while.  While things are going well for

12/13/12 Report - Lessons From Meterorite Men & $70,000 Diamond Flushed

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Nice Old Button Find.
Find and photo by William M.

Some were saying the world was going to end yesterday.   If you are reading this, it probably didn't.

I mentioned some of the following a couple of days ago but wanted to add some.  Like I said then, I was watching the TV show Meteorite Men this past

12/12/12 Report - Treasure & Trash.

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Gold Treasure Coast Metaa Detector Beach Find.

I showed this find before but wanted to use it to quickly point out a couple of things.

First, you can't see it too well in this photo, but the nose is very worn down.  That probably shows that it was used a lot.

If you look at a lot of the old Jesus

12/11/12 Report - High Priced Treasures & More

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Gold Bar Sold in SedwickCoins Auction. 
Photo from SedwickCoins Email.

Here is the link to see more of the top selling items from completed Sedwick Coins auctions.  A really nice group. 

http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=imkgftcab&v=

12/10/12 Report - Gold Shipwreck Box and Way of St. James & Ambergris

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Gold Tobacco Box.
Photo from Dec. 10, MailOnline.

The gold box shown in this photo is part of Odyssey Marine's Black Swan treasure.  It displays a scallop shell, which is a symbol of St. James, and was used as a badge by pilgrims to the shrine of Santiago de Compostela.

Here is one version of the

12/9/12 Report - Encrusted Objects Again and More

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Musket Parts
Finds and Photo by Will R.
See more about  this below.

I never know what posts are going to be popular.  I somtimes look at the number of hits for dif, but that doesn't tell the entire story and, of course, I pay attention to what people tell me when I receive email about posts, but that

12/8/12 Report - The Wreck of La Belle, and Lumps, Crust & Iron

One very nice web site presents an early and important shipwreck, the wreck of La Belle, one of La Salle's ships that wrecked in the Gulf near Texas.  It has a lot of great photos and explanation.

Below is the link.  You might want to go through the entire presentation.   It is really very good.

http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/belle/index.html



Photo From Referenced Web Site

Among the

12/7/12 Report - Silver Ingots & US Coin Price Web Site

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Silver Find That I've Shown Before For ID

You've seen a silver ingot or silver scale weight that I posted before if you've been reading this blog very long.  It was found one of our beaches, but I don't know where it came from or how old it is.  The consensus is pretty evenly divided between those two

12/6/12 - Gold Nuggets and Dust, 1812 Wrecks & Bronze Helmet

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Large Gold Nugget With Interesting History

I noticed this large gold nugget for sale in a Americana and Numismatic auction on icollector.  It has nearly $50 thousand of gold in it.  Not that anyone would ever melt it down.  As a natural gold nugget it will sell for much more.  Not to speak of its

12/5/12 Report - Eight-Reale Found

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8-reale Find and Photo by Jonah M.

 Here is a nice eight -reale found by Jonah M. three weeks after Sandy.  It isn't unusual to pick up a few cobs that long after a storm.

Really nice find.  Congratulations Jonah!

And great photos too.

You can easily see from the Florenza cross that the cob was

12/4/12 Report - Old Bank Bills, Silver Hoards & Vintage Brass Hotel Keys

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Bill Found in Old Book

A few days ago I gave you a link to an article about a rare gold coin that was found hidden in an old book and advised looking through old books.  You can often find interesting things in old books, sometimes old post cards or photos, for example.

I recently found this three

12/3/12 Report - 3-Cent Silver Coins, For Peat's Sake & Disappearing Island

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One Treasure Coast Beach Yesterday

Three-cent silver coins?   Very nice.

Here is the link.

http://www.coinweek.com/featured-news/coin-rarities-related-topics-astonishing-three-cent-silvers-in-rarities-night/



Maybe you've seen big brown rounded lumps of what looks like soft wood on some of the

12/1/12 Report - Mercedes Items on Display, Going With The Flow & The Presidio

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You probably read about the treasure salvaged by Odyssey Marine Explorations from what some believe is the 1804 wreck of the Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes.  I''ve talked about it in this blog a few times and provided links to the story.  You might also recall our discussion of the decision by the US