10/2/19 Report - Markings on Gold Ring. Bottles and Plastic Crate Finds.

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

Date Inscribed in Recently Found Ring.

The above ring is inscribed with the date 5 - 20 - 87, presumably the wedding date.  You'll occasionally find rings that are not from the U. S. that have the day before the month and year.  For example, if you see 20 - 5 - 87, you might think something is wrong unless you realize it is probably from a country where they put the day first.  Of course if the day and month are both small numbers, such as 1 and 2, you don't know if it is January 2nd or February 1st unless you know which system is being used.

You'll also find other things that are marked different from the way we usually do it in the U. S.  This high karat ring, for example is marked 90%.

Same Ring Marked 90%

The ring acid tests to over 20k gold, and I presume the 90% is the purity, which, if true, would be about 21.6k.

Rings from some places, such as India or China, are often higher karat than we find common in the U. S.

The name inscribed in the ring is Kwong, which is a name that seems to derive from Central China, but is also common in various places in the U. S., most especially California, as well as other places, such as Korea.

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Three Found Green Bottles.

These aren't new finds.  I've posted at least one of them before.  I just like the different shapes.  I especially like the round one on the right.  The photo doesn't do it justice, but it might look good catching the light in a kitchen window.

As you know some old and rare bottles can be sold for a nice price, but these ones aren't worth much of anything.

If you collect bottles, you'll quickly discover that they take up space.  That is why I always like to find a plastic crate.  Here are a couple of the crates that I've found along with a few of the bottles.

Found Coca Cola Bottles with Found Plastic Crates.

The bottom crate contains a variety of Coca Cola bottles.  One of the nice things about the plastic crates is that you can stack them six or seven high to save space.  Another nice thing is that you can see through them, which makes it can make it easier to find what you are looking for.

Notice that the bottles are stored bottom up.  There are two reasons for that.  If your bottles are outside, you don't want water and gunk to accumulate in them, and secondly, especially with Coke bottles, the bottom provides much of the identifying information so you can quickly scan them.

I always like finding things I can use while I'm looking for coins or other metal treasures.   Here are some of the other crates and bottles I've found.

More Found Crates Containing Found Bottles.

If you buy plastic crates, you'll quickly discover that they are not cheap, so I'm always glad to find one.

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Yesterday we were supposed to have some high water.  I haven't found out what it actually did yet, but according to the predictions it looks like we'll be having a more common 3 - 5 foot surf for a few days.

Source: MagicSeaWeed.com.

That doesn't look to exciting.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

3/22/12 Report - Foreign Coin Detector Finds & More

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A Few Small Foreign Coins Found Using a Metal Detector on Florida Beaches.



These are a few of the modern era foreign coins that I've found on Florida beaches or in the shallow water. Of course the penny is for comparison.

I got these out to do a metal detector test. I wanted to do a video showing how the detector responded to the different coins. They vary quite a bit in composition.

Starting with the top row going left to right, first is the penny, and then a 1 something (I think maybe Kopek) from the CCCP. Next is a 10 Ore, from Sweden, Then a 1 Pfennig from Germany. And 5 French centimes.

In the other row is 25 centimes from Costa Rica, 5 ore from Denmark, 10 pesos from Columbia, and 10 centavos from Argentina.

Obviously metal detecting is a good idea if you are interested in foreign coins. There are some beaches in Florida where you have a lot of international flavor. What better way to introduce young people to geography and foreign languages that looking for foreign coins. Not to mention other topics such as history, numismatics, or metallurgy.

Speaking of metallurgy, you might be able to guess which of these coins would be the hardest to detect.


Here is a good web site for basic research on old and vintage world coins. Recent dates of little value are not included in this database.

http://www.coinquest.com/cgi-bin/cq/coins


I mentioned the other day that some coins would not be detected at all by one very popular detector used on the Treasure Coast using a discrimination setting of 1 (lowest). That coin is one of these. See if you can guess which coin would least likely be detected under low discrimination? I'll have a video in a day or two to show you more about that.

I was having all kinds of trouble making that video. The first eight times I shot the sky, my foot and everything but what I wanted. I think I finally got it right though.

I did a search to see if the CCCP coin is a Kopek and found that is what it is.

The 1924 and 25 1 Kopek coins can be worth over a hundred dollars according to at least one web site.

This one is a 1982.

It's always a good idea to check your finds anyhow.


If you want to join Bernie and some of the gang from the St. Lucie Metal Detecting club for a hunt on Saturday give Bernie a call at 786-246-9335.


This is Fort Pierce Jetty Park this morning. All the snowbirds must be loving beautiful Fort Pierce Beach. It was closed this morning. It appears that they are done with dumping sand and are taking the equipment away. I suspect that it will be open this weekend.

Speaking of junk - I've never seen our beaches looking worse. There is a lot of sand and seaweed. You can expect that, but the amount of plastic and trash spread around is disgusting. I don't know why that is or who is leaving their trash all over the beach, but it is bad. Some of it probably washed up, but a lot of it was left recently by I don't know who.

If any of you want to send me a photo of how much trash you picked up, I'd be pleased to post it.

It might be a good idea to take a trash bag along with you when you detect. If the other beach-goers aren't going to respect our beaches, the detectorists can set a good example. It might be a good club project.

I picked up a little this morning, but didn't go equipped to pick up the tons of trash that I saw. I thought it was thoroughly disgusting. I'm sure that people don't realize how much trash detectorists remove from the beaches.

The weather is beautiful, but along with being trashy, beach detecting conditions remain poor. There is a lot of seaweed now too. And a few Portuguese Man-O-War (those blue stinging jelly fish).

The surf is a little rough, but not in a way that would cause erosion or any improvement in detecting conditions.

The seas will be decreasing slowly until about Sunday and then start increasing slowly again.


Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net