One Treasure Coast Beach This Morning.
I often remind you to keep any valuable finds in a bank safe deposit box. Evidently one St Lucie County person didn't do that.
Earlier this year a Spanish Colonial coin collection was stolen in Port St. Lucie. The collection included 136 Spanish coins, many of which were minted in Potosi in the late 1700s. There were also some Pillar dollars, Portraits and cobs.
A suspect has been arrested and 45 of the coins have been recovered. Contact Doug Davis at 817-723-7231 or Doug@numismaticcrimes.org if you have information on any of the others.
There is a web site detailing information on crimes involving numismatic collections.
Here is the link.
http://numismaticcrimes.org
I'm glad the crook and some of the coins were found.
A NFL championship ring belonging to Art Donovan that was stolen in 1977 was recently found by police listed for sale on Criag's List and returned to the former defensive tackle who said the ring was stolen on a trip to Hong Kong.
This article traces the ring's amazing travels.
here is the link.
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-08-23/news/bs-md-donovan-ring-returned-20110823_1_ring-art-donovan-howard-county-police
One of Hurricane Irene's early acts of destruction was the destruction of Richard Branson's mansion on his private island - not by wind or water damage but by a fire started by lightening. At least he has the money to rebuild.
http://www.hollywoodheavy.com/detail/002329/richard-bransons-private-island-devistated-by-fire/
Lightening is not what you think of first when you think hurricane, but destruction can come in many ways.
Treasure Coast Beach Forecast and Conditions.
Latest Track From BoatUS.com.
The track keeps getting shifted a little further out to sea and a little further away from us. It looks like the Outer Banks will really get it.
The surf predictions have been pretty consistent for the last few days. Now they are expecting 11 foot seas, as the peak, late Thursday. Seas will quickly build on
Thursday to a peak and then subside gradually Friday and through the weekend.
A good time to hunt might be at low tide after the peak passes and the wind shifts to come from the west.
The weekend should provide some good hunting.
As you might be able to see from the photo at the top of the page, the high seas have not begun, and there is no erosion to speak of yet. The ocean got stirred up just a little by a passing rain storm and there was some lightening out there.
The beach conditions remain poor so far.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net