4/11/12 Report - $42,000 Gold Escudo, Local Man's Miraculous Medallion & Spanish Missions

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.1714 Mexican 8-Escudo Sold in the Sedwick Coins Auction Yesterday.This was the star of the gold coins sold in the first session of the auction yesterday. It was struck with Royal dies and brought a bid of $42,500.When I was watching the live bidding, I noticed that the undated Bogata 2-escudos were going for

12/22/21 Report - 7 Million Dollar Brasher Coin & Whatzits Revisited

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1787 Brasher Doubloon. 





This beauty sold for 7.4 million dollars.



You can read more about that by using the following link.



http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/general/view/20111212rare_1787_gold_coin_fetches_74m/srvc=usnews&position=

Here we are  approaching the end of another year. 

4/14/11 Report - Assessing Coin and Gold Beaches

Found Gold Coin Pendant and Chain.Can anyone tell me anything about this coin? If I correctly interpret, the letters running vertically down behind the seated figure is "Alexander."Gold is almost to $1470 today.I'm getting better at playing my new found Horse Conch horn. I didn't know how popular it was to play conchs. When you learn how hard it is to cut shells like this, it is amazing how much

12/18 Report - Alexander the Great Gold Coin

350 BC Gold Coin Found With Metal Detector.My research seems to indicate that this one is from around the time of Alexander the Great.I guess it is a good time to remind you to keep your good finds in a bank safe deposit box. Don't keep anything good at home. I might have shown this one before. I forget. You can find all kinds of coins on the beaches of Florida. This is a really old one. It was