8/11/18 Report - New Projections For The 2018 Hurricane Season. Metal Detector Choice and Ambient Noise. Restoring Precious Artifacts.

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.

Notable Hurricane That Hit In August or Later.

Some good news from top hurricane forecasters: The 2018 Atlantic hurricane season should be quieter than normal, according to a new predictionreleased Monday.

Meteorologist Phil Klotzbach and other experts from Colorado State University – regarded as the nation's top seasonal hurricane forecasters – predict 10 named tropical storms will form, of which four will become hurricanes.

That is a sharp decrease from their forecast in April, when they said 7 hurricanes would form. One system, Subtropical Storm Alberto, already formed in May...

Here is the link for more of that article.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/07/03/hurricane-season-2018-forecast/755215002/

It only take one, and hurricane season is far from over.

There is one disturbance in the Atlantic now, but at this point it closer to Africa than.  I'll keep an eye on that one for any development.

On the Treasure Coast today we had a smooth surf and big tides.

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I think everybody knows that there is no "best" metal detector.  The detector that is best depends upon a variety of factors including but not limited to where you are going to hunt and what you want to find.  While the Garrett ATX is a much more expensive and under most circumstances a much more capable metal detector than the Garrett Ace, yet there are times when the Ace might be the best choice.  One such place is a site where there are nearby power lines, cables and a lot of ambient interference.  I was reminded of that today when I visited a place where there was a lot of interference.

Yes the ATX has a frequency scan function, but under those circumstances, the Ace does a decent job, barely being affected by the interference without going through any special procedures.  If you are on a beach, especially with wet sand, you'll most likely get way better performance from the ATX, assuming you know how to use it.

I just mentioned two particular detectors, but what I'm talking about isn't just those two metal detectors.  You always have to evaluate a metal detector relative to the situation and application.  The detector that will be best in one situation might be a poor choice in another situation.

The Excalibur and Sovereign were not especially sensitive to ambient electrical interference.  If I correctly recall, the White's Dual surf was more sensitive.

There are some places on Treasure Coast beaches where you might run into erratic performance due to interference.  If you go south from the beach access at Rio Mar, when you get near the bend, there is one location where you might run into interference.  There is also one south of the Turtle Trail access.

The interference at some of those locations seem to center around particular houses.  I think sometime marine or other radio communications can cause noise too.  There are times when it is worse than other times at the same location.

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Treasure hunters seek, discover, recover and perhaps clean nice old artifacts.  We hope those items are still in good condition, but the fellow in the following video actually restores precious artifacts and works of art.

https://www.gloria.tv/video/oEmvDEMFuq624iLvwVRkKPCo6

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Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

5/7/18 Report - Valuable Paper Money. Hearing Gold Coin. Searching Junky Areas.

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.

Ten Dollar Bill In Current Sedwick Auction.

A couple days ago I talked about old paper money.  There are a few lots in the current Sedwick auction.  The bill above is lot number 115 and already has a bid of $850.  Below is the lot description.

USA (Washington, D.C.), Legal Tender, $10, 1901, Vernon-Treat, serial B2856607. FR-116; KL-382. This appealing Bison note also features the portraits of famous explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. VF with light stains and a single pinhole in the bottom margin, overall good colors and appearance.

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Not too long ago I told about the find of a ten dollar gold coin.  Here is a quick video showing what it would sound like if you were using a detector such as the Garrett Ace and if the coin was not in a jar or anything.

It was found buried in a jar with a metal lid though.  And the ID meter didn't read "ten dollar gold coin."  I often talk about not relying too much on discrimination or ID because a lot of the best finds won't be identified accurately for one reason or another.

The following video shows the same coin as it would sound in a jar with a metal lid.  The jar and lid is not exactly the same as the one that originally contained the coin.  That lid broke as I tried to open it.

If you were being selective about what you dig, you might have missed this one.  Picking through junk can be tricky business.


As I've said before, many of the most interesting and valuable finds will not be things that are precisely identified by a metal detector ID meter or readout.  They are often rare or complex items,or concealed, as this coin was, in something else.  

Most of the Treasure Coast beaches are not very junky.  I think that must be true of beaches everywhere.  When I was hunting down south a lot, any beach that I hunted frequently would be pretty clean.  I usually dug everything, and if you do that very much, there won't be much junk left after a while.

Things can be different at other kinds of sites.  Picnic areas were usually covered with aluminum pull tabs, tin foil and other kinds of junk.  For those types of sites, you might choose to pick through the junk without picking up all the trash.  Then you might TRY to pick  up the good stuff, while missing the junk, but you never know what good stuff you left behind.

Home sites usually have another kind of junk, including a lot of nails and rusty stuff.  You can try to pick through that too, but there is still the danger of missing the best finds that way.   As the fellow that sifted an entire home site showed, a metal detector search will miss the majority of coins.

You might try to save time by not picking up junk or low value targets.  That is one strategy, but there is still the danger of missing something very good that way.  Again, you never know what you miss, and maybe that is a good thing, and that is a good thing if you want to go away thinking you did a good job.  You'll never know it if you didn't.

One area that I haven't spent a lot of time on is developing skill in picking good targets out of a very junky environment.  I try to do it on rare occasions, but haven't really studied that process.   I'm sure I could learn how to do it more effectively.  I'm sure there are a lot of good tips and tricks to be learned for doing that, but I've always spent most of my time on the beaches. I haven't studied junky areas very much.  That would probably be worth while, because a lot of other people are going to take the easy way out.  

That is all for now.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net