4/11/13 Report - Gold Coin From Fort Capron Payroll Cache, Reaction of Metals to Salt Water, Fort Pierce Project & More

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Nice Gold Coin Found North of Fort Old Pierce Inlet
Part of Fort Capron Payroll Treasure.
Currently listed for sale in the current Sedwick treasure auction.
 

Here is a nice gold coin that was found north of Pepper Park back a few decades ago.  It was lost when a boat bringing the payroll for Fort

3/30/13 Post - Royal Gold Ring Find, Reading Beaches & Tsunamis

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Very Old Gold Ring Found by Detectorist
See link immediately below gor the story.


Here is a gold ring found by a detectorist.  It is thought to be around 1400 years old and is possibly royal. 

It was found in England south of York.

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7/24/12 Report - Carlos II Cobs From 1715 Fleet Beaches

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According to Wikipedia, Charles II (or perhaps more correctly, Carlos II) ruled Spain from November 1661 through November 1700.  His name appeared on New World coinage during much of that period, while immediately before and after that, you'll see King Philip indicated on the cobs.  The transition was

6/28/12 Report - Emeralds in Conglomerate & $15 Million Cache Found by Detectorist

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Here are a variety of items reportedly found in a single encrustation about the size of a softball.  According to the eBay seller, the softball-sized encrustation was found while diving off the coast of Southeast Florida, and remained for years before the crust was taken apart and these items revealed.

5/31/12 Report - Detectorist to the Rescue! & Big Treasure


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One Treasure Coast Beach Near low Tide This Morning.

 The beaches looked bad but the water was really nice.  The ocean was flat today.   And there was very good visibility.  You could actually walk around and eye-ball in shallow water.

Unfortunately there is a bunch of sand in front of the beach. 

5/12/12 Report - Returned Rings & Bent Ear Ring

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Gold and Ruby Ear Ring Find

This small ear ring is bent.  You can see a little of where it was squashed.

Things undergo a lot of force on the beach sometimes.  It is really amazing.  I'll show some coins that are bent sometime.  

Fortunately none of the stones fell out of this ring even though it

4/30/12 Report - Some Erosion on the Treasure Coast Last Night

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This morning I found a few hundred yards of one to two foot cuts.  I was surprised.  I saw more erosion than I expected.  I think it occurred last night.

I somehow lost the photo that I took.  I think my camera battery ran down.

It was almost enough erosion to upgrade my beach detecting conditions

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

5/24/11 Report - Atlantic Storm, OMEX, Modern Jewelry & Signal Finds

Two Encrusted Objects Recently Found on Treasure Coast Beaches. Front and Back of Each.The one item looked like it might be a nickel even though I couldn't see any surface detail. It was the right size and had the green color that nickels often get.The other looked the right size and shape to be a cob, but it didn't have the right color and from what I could see of the edge, it didn't look like

4/23/11 Report - Treasure Hoard Found & Hunting at Hone

Backyard Finds From Fred D.Hundreds of pieces of centuries-old jewelry and other precious objects were found by a man turning dirt in his own back yard. The trove consisted of more than 200 rings, brooches, ornate belt buckles, gold-plated silver plates and other pieces or fragments, many encrusted with pearls, fossilized coral and other ornaments that were judged to be about 650 years old.Here

3/20/11 Report - Selecting a Beach & Nugget Find

Huge Nugget Sold for $460,000.This nugget was found by a man in his own back yard. Wouldn't that be fun? He also found two other smaller nuggets. One of the smaller ones sold for $7000, and the other for $17000 if I remember correctly.Now that would be some fun homework. Imagine being able to find nuggets like that in your back yard. I'd probably be out there digging all the time. There would be

1/28/2011 - Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster 25 Years Ago Today & Pieces Still Being Found

One Nice Cut on a Treasure Coast Beach.This cut was about three feet high and went for a few hundred yards. It was at least a few days old.Yesterday I took a look at three different beaches. I saw detectorists at all three, but all three of them were near the beach access. The cut shown in the photo above was a good distance from a beach access and I saw no one there.Most detectorists hit the