8/15/17 Report - Numismatic Archaeology of North America. Ship's Store Tokens. Determining the Source of Silver Coins. New Weather In The Atlantic.

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Here is a good book.  You can read a sample free online.  The title is Numismatic Archaeology of North America: A Field Guide.

You might want to look at some of the later chapters first because there is a limit to how much you can read as a free preview.

Below is just one of many illustrations from the book that I found interesting.

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Maybe you've found something that looks like a coin but you can't identify it.  I have. This is an entire class of coins or tokens that you should know about.  As the book says, such tokens might be found in port cities or where sailors live.

There seems to be a lot of good interesting information in that book.

Click here to take a look at the free preview.

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Researchers in Germany and Denmark analysed the chemical composition of 70 silver Roman coins dating from about 310 BCE to 101 BCE, spanning either side of the war.

"Before the war we find that the Roman coins are made of silver from the same sources as the coinage issued by Greek cities in Italy and Sicily. In other words the lead isotope signatures of the coins correspond to those of silver ores and metallurgical products from the Aegean region," said Katrin Westner of the Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Goethe University, Germany...

Later coins came from silver mined in what is now Spain.

Here is the link to read more about that.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/2200-year-old-coins-record-hannibals-defeat-start-roman-empire-1634912


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Source: nhc.noaa.gov

Gert is up by North Carolina now, but there are two more systems to watch out in the Atlantic.  Either or both of those could possibly come our way.  It will be a while before we know what happens to them.

That is all for today.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

8/14/17 Report - South Hutchinson Island Beaches and Conditions. A Few Finds. Tropical Storm Gert.

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I took a look at a few beaches along South Hutchinson Island this morning.  Beach detecting conditions were generally poor.

Most beaches had loose shelly sand with a steep slope.  Other beaches were more flat and had a layer of fine sand over the course sand.

As you can see, the surf was flat this morning.  One of the salvage boats came out of the Fort Pierce Inlet around 8:30.  I didn't see any of the others.

Seaweed was common too.

I hadn't been out much lately, but things have not changed much either.

Below are some more pictures of South Hutchinson Island beaches.

I didn't hunt very much.  Mostly I just looked at the beaches, but I did detect a little.  No matter how hard the beaches have been detected, there is usually a little something left, like the crusty coins shown below.

Two Crusty Pennies.

I don't know why they remained on the beach so long.  Maybe because people aren't bothering with zinc pennies, or maybe it was because there was a screw between them, which could have protected them.  They were the only coins I found, although I only detected for a short while - probably not even twenty minutes.

Also the following small gold earring was found at good depth - probably about seven inches.

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There is now a named tropical storm - Gert.  She won't come our way though.  She is headed north and out into the Atlantic.

Source: nhc.noaa.gov

The surf on the Treasure Coast will remain two feet and under for several days.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net