6/26/12 Report - Old Florida Maps & Tropical Storm Debby

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Antique Map showing Fort Capron and The Old Indian River Inlet


There are a lot of antique maps that can be found online.  This is a portion of a map showing the location of Fort Capron and the old Indian River Inlet.



The inlet shown here is now closed and is north of the present Fort Pierce Inlet

6/8/12 Report - Silver Coins in the Florida State Collection & More

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Can You Believe This Stuff?



The item shown to the right is from an October 2011 auction by Manor Auctions.  It has nothing to do with the Florida Collection that I'll discuss below.  Other similarly big gaudy items were also in the auction.



Here is the link if you want to see more of this

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

11/28/11 Report - Wrecks of Assateague & Multi-Million Year Old Find

Written by the Treasureguide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.From Shipwreck Off of Assateague Island.A National Park Service Photo.The La Galga and Juno shipwrecks were located off of Assateague Island and were awarded by the courts to Spain. Artifacts from those wrecks were "loaned" by Spain to the NPS for display.Does this seem crazy to anyone else.Here is a link to

6/28/11 Report - Spanish Missions & Loose Change

Map Showing Location of Spanish Missions in Florida.This map appeared in the 2006 Master's thesis of Alissa Slade. Here is the link if you want to read the thesis.http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses_1/available/etd-11142006-180114/unrestricted/Final.pdfNotice the marked shipping route back to St. Augustine. You probably know that I especially like "first finds." They tend to move a person to the next

6/2/11 Report - Florida Laws & Identifying Fake Coins

Parts From Rosary? (Photo submitted by Michael H.)That is what Michael H. thought his finds might be. He also recently found what looks like a musket ball on Fort Lauderdale beach. People don't often associate thinks like musket balls and shipwrecks with much of South Florida, but they have those things as well.I recently made some comments about detecting South Florida, and mentioned some of