1/23/13 Report - True Identity of Dug Spanish Silver Coin

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Partially Cleaned Dug Coin

Yesterday I was talking about this coin that I was trying to identify.  It is still not very clean, but it is now clean enough that I have figured out what it is.

One small thing that originally made me think it was a fake treasure coin when I first saw it was a very shiny

8/12/12 Report - Crusty Coins and Black Sand

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Surface Find Indicating Possible Presence of Other Targets


I often remind detectorists to keep their eyes open.  A surface coin might be the first indication you get of the possible presence of a nearby coin line or coin hole.  As I've mentioned before, I've known people who do not own a detector but 

7/14/12 Report - More on Working Cuts and Reading Finds - A Recent Example

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Cut Found Yesterday

Here is a nice cut.   It is about three or four feet high, but I wouldn't pass it up if it was only a six inches high.   It is well placed.

This is the type of cut that I would never pass up without checking.   You can see the vegetation on top of the dune.  That means the sand

6/10/12 Report - Spanish Colonial Silver Coins Data From the Florida Collection

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Here is one more of those crazy mounted gold escudos from the 2010 Manor Auctions sale.



I provided a link to the web site a couple of times before in recent posts.







Did you ever wonder what kind of Spanish Colonial cobs you would most likely find on the Treasure Coast beaches? That is hard to

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

4/23/12 Report - Pile of Coins & More

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Coins At Ferry Boat Pilings.

There must be a hundred pounds of all kinds of coins around these pilings.   I saw them a couple of days ago.   If you could get access to dive here, imagine all of the coins on the bottom.  You wouldn't have to use a metal detector,  Just scoop them up.

And you know that

4/6/12 Report - Carolus III & IV Coins & Chopmarks. Also Big Seas Coming.

Written by the treasureguide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.Coin With Chopmarks.I selected this coin to show because of the variety of chopmarks it shows. The coin photo was submitted to the web site immediately below. The web site has a lot of good information on these types of coins. It talks about Mexico Carolus III and IV 1/2,1, 2, 4, and 8 Reales. Those would be

3/22/12 Report - Foreign Coin Detector Finds & More

Written by the Treasureguide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.A Few Small Foreign Coins Found Using a Metal Detector on Florida Beaches.These are a few of the modern era foreign coins that I've found on Florida beaches or in the shallow water. Of course the penny is for comparison.I got these out to do a metal detector test. I wanted to do a video showing how the

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

2/11/12 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),

1/6/2012 Report - Conditions Downgrade

Written by the TreasureGuide for treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.Gold Coins Found in Clay Pot.Photo from the BBC story linked below.$140,000 worth of gold coins from 1595 to 1798 were discovered in a clay pot in a cellar when the residents were working on their drains.Here is the link to that story.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14080228A cardboard box holding six pieces of antique

9/27/11 Report - Beach Front Cobs - How They Get There

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.Raft Recently Found on Treasure Coast Beach.I don't know if this is from immigrants floating in or something else. It reminds me of other rafts that I've seen on the beach, although most of them were much more substantial and used by Cubans arriving at South Florida.Thanks to Bob H. for the photo. He said

7/30/11 Report - Canadian Foreign Coins, Auction Results & the US Debt Tax

Some Canadian Coins Found on Florida Beaches by Detector.It is not unusual to find Canadian coins in Florida. Some resort areas are heavily visited by our Canadian friends, who like everyone else, lose coins on the beach.When I started detecting, to find the value of foreign coins, or any coins for that matter, you had to have a book. Now most everything can be found on the internet. That makes

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

4/20/11 Report - Rio Mar and Auctions

Rio Mar is one of those shipwreck treasure beaches that I consider to be a secondary treasure beach. In my opinion it is not one of the top five or six, but still good. I like it because you can sometimes find older US coins and modern jewelry besides the rare cob. Unfortunately it was cut pretty nicely years ago but they fixed it up and it now has a lot of sand.The treasure ship there is thought

3/11/11 Report - Fort Capron Treasure Coins

Half Reale From Cabin Wreck Being Sold on EBay.This half-real was found on the Cabin Wreck site and is now listed for sale on eBay. It is a good example of a Treasure Coast cob find.The current bid is less than $6.00 and it has a reserve that I would guess is way above that.Here is the link.http://cgi.ebay.com/1715-Treasure-Fleet-1-2-Reale-Coin-/250785032487?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=

3/6/11 Report - Seas Starting to Decrease - Fake Treasure Coins

Slab Ready to Fall on Next Wave or Two.If you talk to some of the guys that used to metal detect on the Treasure Coast beaches, some of them say that most of the beach treasure coins have already been found and that the hunting isn't good anymore. There are a good number of guys that have given up on beach hunting. Some of them will tell you how much better the hunting was ten or twenty years ago

2/4/11 Report - Mexican Reales & Crystallized Shells and Fossils

A Guatemala 8 Reales That Sold for Over $35,000.Photo from web site linked below.A lot of Mexican coins did very well in the Stacks-Bowers numismatic auction held in January of 2011. The 4200 lots brought in a total of 7.86 million.A Mexican 1823 MoJM "Hookneck Eagle" 8 Escudos in NGC AU-55 — the first gold coin of the Mexican Republic sold for $35,400.A Guatemala 1854 A.E. 8 Reales certified

12/4 Report - Silver Earring & Sea Beans

Silver Earring Found on a Treasure Coast Shipwreck Beach.This is one of those things that frustrates me. It is so difficult to properly identify unmarked items found on a beach. I think it is just as difficult to properly identify items found in the water around a shipwreck, but I think they often get a pass and quickly conclude that if an item is found near the pile, it is part of the shipwreck.

12/2/10 Report - What a Difference a Day Makes - Sometimes.

Beach South of the Fort Pierce Inlet This Morning.I stopped here yesterday morning and was surprised once again by how many coins you can find on some of the Treasure Coast beaches. There are so many detectorists out there and some of the beaches are detected to death, but other beaches evidently aren't hunted that much.Yesterday I stopped by John Brooks to see what was going on because I got a