6/7/13 Report - Tropical Storm Andrea, Detecting Conditions Upgrade & More

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The beach has been very dynamic lately.  It has been changing everyday - not always in a good way. 

This beach had a seven foot cut back a few days ago.  A couple of days ago the cut started to fill with new sand.  Then what I found yesterday is that a second step was cut into the beach.  The new cut was

6/6/13 Platinum Beach Finds, Tropical Storm Andrea & Tidal Coefficients

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Platinum Ring Found With
 Metal Detector

Months after being at around $1900 per ounce, gold is now close to $1400.  That is a big drop, even though it is still well above what it was years ago.  Silver finished at $22.55 yesterday and platinum, at $1511.

Years ago platinum was a lot more valuable than

6/5/13 Report - Great White Tooth Beach Find, X-Hunters, Oxus Treasure & More

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Great White Tooth Fossil
Find and photo by Leroy G.

It was just a few days ago that I showed a fossil tooth found in a shell pile on the beach.  Here is another example, this time what appears to me to be the tooth of a Great White found by Leroy G.  Leroy said he didn't find any metal that day, but was

6/4/13 Gold Lion Ring With Mouth Full, Looter Archaeologist, Relics & More

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Gold Lion Ring Found on Treasure Coast

I added a poll to the blog.  Hopefully it will work right this time.  It looks like it so far.  It will give us some information about what people have been finding this year.


A few weeks ago I showed a gold lion ring that was found on a local beach.  The

6/3/13 Report - More on a Recently Found Cob, Big Signal & Browsing Books for Treasure

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Cut on Treasure Coast Yesterday Afternoon.

The cob shown below is the same one that I showed yesterday.  As I discussed yesterday, you can see the mint mark and the first three digits of the date.


We can probably narrow the date down a little more.   The cob came from a well-known 1715 Fleet

6/2/13 Report - Details of Cob Found This Week & Other Finds

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One Small Cob Found This Week on Treasure Coast


 A few days ago I showed the other side of this cob that was found this week.  You could clearly see the cross and could tell that it was a Mexican minted cob.

At that time I couldn't see any detail on the other side except for part of the circle of dots

6/1/13 Report - Continuing Conditions Rating of 2, Eye-Balled Objects While Detecting & Hot Spots Or Not

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I'm surprised by how few detectorists that I saw this morning after giving an upgrade.



Sea Glass and Fossil Tooth Found Yesterday in Shell Piles While Detecting

I was a little slow on my most recent upgrade.  It seemed to sneak up on me.  

Even though I was seeing erosion, it didn't seem productive to