2/17/19 Report - SS Pulaski Coins Being Sold. Another Kind of Collectible You Might Find: Insulators.

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

Finds From SS Pulaski

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu0ixvAA8BQ

I've posted a bit in the past about the shipwreck of the SS Pulaski, but now the coins are being sold.

The first 502 gold and silver coins plucked from a shipwreck off North Carolina have been sold to a global coin dealer at a price that “wildly exceeded” the recovery project’s expectations...

The 502 coins included some of the oldest U.S. gold coins ever recovered off a shipwreck, dating to around 1800, said Keith Webb of Blue Water Ventures International.   Blue Water Ventures is working with Endurance Exploration Group to recover treasure off the Steamship Pulaski...

Read more here: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article226195150.html#storylin

All 502 coins predated the sinking of the Pulaski in 1838, with the oldest being a 1750s British Gold Guinea, said Micah Eldred of Endurance Exploration Group.

Webb believes more than 100,000 gold and silver coins wait to be found, along with jewelry...

Divers are finding the coins in areas where the passengers’ steamer trunks tumbled as part of a “wreck trail.” The trunks themselves have wasted away, Webb says, but the metal bands, keys and locks that held them together now sit in the sand...

Read more here: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article226195150.html#storylink=cpy

Here is the link for the rest of the article.


https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article226195150.html

See also:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/portion-pulaski-shipwreck-coin-collection-135108095.html

https://www.ngccoin.com/news/article/6524/SS-Pulaski/

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You never know what you might find.  That is something I like about treasure hunting.  You can find a lot of interesting things besides coins.  There are bottles, fossils, arrow heads, shells, sea glass and other types of  collectibles that you can find.

If you've done much hunting, there is a good chance you've found some insulators.  Here are a few that I've found.

Found Insulators.

Sometimes they still have wire attached or are on bolt.  You can detect those, but very often they will be surface finds.

One thing I like about insulators, besides the fact that they come in all sizes and shapes and can be very colorful, is that they are usually well marked, both with the name of the manufacturer and the patent date.

Probably my best insulator is a cobalt blue example.  It isn't shown in this photo.

Brookfield Insulator.

This nice little green insulator is a Brookfield.  It also has the patent date on the bottom.

There are quite a variety of manufacturers.

Like most collectibles, most are fairly common and not very valuable, but there are some that bring very good prices.  As with all collectibles, condition and rarity are big factors.

I think insulators are attractive and make a nice collection.  They can be easily researched and nicely displayed.

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No big change in beach conditions.  The surf is still small.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

2/13/15 Report - Extensive List of Most Valuable U.S. Coins. 1890 Swiss 2 Rappen. A "Wash-Up" Located This Morning.

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Typical Treasure Coast Beach This Morning Near Low Tide

I didn't see any cuts today.  Even cuts that existed a few days ago are now gone.  At high tide the waves came up over the berm and far back on some beaches.

You can see how smooth this beach is.  This beach front was fairly mushy.  I did find one front beach that was firm.

There was a lot of sea weed on some flat beaches.  You can see a little in the above picture.  Some beaches had much more.

I found a surprising number of new coins in the dry sand after taking a good walk away from the park.

I also found a "wash-up" coin hole at one location where an accumulation of rocks was observed down by the swash.   A shell pile was near the berm above that.  There was nothing else remarkable about the spot.  The slope and compactness of the sand was about the same for hundreds of yards, yet the coins were washing up at this one spot.  The highest ones were less than half the way up the slope.  The only tip-off was the rocks and shells.

Here is a nice short video showing the beach and waves this morning.

Below is a nice old coin found by Dan B.

This is a 2.5 gram bronze coin, 20 mm in diameter.

It is a 1890 Swiss coin.

The denomination is 2 centimes or 2 rappen.

Super condition!

Congratulations Dan.

The value in VF20 condition would be about $8.  I'd say this is way above that.

MS63 would be worth more like $45.













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See if you can match these four coins with their realized prices.

1926 S Mercury Dime
1913 Liberty Head V Nickle
1921 S Morgan Silver Dollar
1944 Steel Wheat Penny

$4,500,000
$100,000
$3,100
$1,260

The order of those coins from most to least expensive follows.
1913 Nickle, 1944 Penny, 1926 Dime, and 1921 Silver Dollar.

Here is llink to an extensive list of the most valuable US Coins if you want to see the prices of many besides those four.

http://cointrackers.com/blog/11/most-valuable-coins/

That is a handy list.

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On the Treasure Coast the surf is decreasing.  Expect it to be down to around 2 or 3 feet by Sunday.

We got some good size waves but the angles were not good.  Just goes to show that it takes more than big waves to cause cuts.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net