1/4/17 Report - Miscellaneous Eye-balled Finds From Today. FUN Conference. Escudo Gift. Bigger Surf Coming?

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Piece of Cup Found This Morning.

Before breakfast this morning, I did a little eye-balling.  I saw a few interesting things.  One was the piece of ceramics shown above.

When I first saw it, my mind jumped to Kang'hsi.  But as quickly as that hope came to mind, it disappeared.  It didn't take long to see that it was not Kang'hsi.  For one thing, the paste was too coarse.

Bottom of Same Piece Showing Markings.

There is enough here that I should be able to identify the age and source of this piece when I get around to doing the research.

Another thing I found this morning was a blown, applied-top, olive green bottle shown below.

Bottle Found This Morning.

Notice the bubble in the glass near the base of the shoulder.  It has other bubbles as well.

Also found was the bottom piece of a torpedo bottle.  Too bad it was broken.

Bottom of Torpedo Bottle.

The glass is thick and not of consistent thickness.  That is why I was drawn to it when I saw it sticking out of the sand.

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The Florida United Numismatists Show will be at the Fort Lauderdale Convention Center from January 5 -7  .  Sedwick Coins will be there if you want to see what treasure coins they have to offer.  They will also be accepting items for their upcoming May online auction.

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Nick gave Rachel the "first impression" rose.   Now that we have that important item out of the way...

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A Spanish one-escudo was given to a Salvation Army bell ringer in Indian River County this Christmas.  It was encased in plastic.

That was a nice act.

Here is the link to that story.

http://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/local/indian-river-county/2016/12/24/christmas-treasure-finds-its-way-salvation-army-indian-river-county/95824712/

Thanks to Dean R. for that link.

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The video camera I usually use is not working right yet.  I was hoping I could fix it.  Not yet.

I haven't been out to the beach to detect yet this year.  Too many other responsibilities and things to attend to.

The surf prediction chart looks interesting.  If that holds, I'll be getting out to the beach for sure.

Happy hunting,

TreasureGuide@comcast.net

9/2/15 Report - Nice 1715 Fleet One Escudo. Buried Nazi Gold Train Found. First ECC Photo. Jamestown Discoveries.

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1715 Fleet One Escudo

Very nice one escudo from the 1715 Fleet.  This is referred to as a Type II in the Sewall Menzel book.

The date appears to be 1712, if I am reading it correctly.  Looks like it could be a 2 over 1.

The other side would have the cross potent.

The mint is Lima, and the assayer (M) would be Felix Cristobal Cano Melagejo.

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This is an Indiana Jones mega-treasure story.  It appears that an armored train full of Nazi treasure has been discovered in a buried tunnel.  If you read the different accounts of this story it is hard to tell how much is true and how much is myth and how much is cover-up.  The different stories just don't stick together entirely.

Here are a couple of links.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/02/nazi-gold-train-poland-to-bring-in-army-to-help-in-hunt


http://my.xfinity.com/video/treasure-hunters-claim-to-find-nazi-treasure-train/517077059784/Comcast/Today_in_Video?cid=hero_sf_TIV

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When the Jamestown Rediscovery Archaeological Project started, the hope was to find the site of the original 1607 James Fort, which had been written off for more than 200 years as lost to shoreline erosion.

Since then, the team has discovered the fort and more than a million artifacts in the ground...

This is an ongoing excavation.  They keep coming up with more every week it seems.  

http://wydaily.com/2015/08/28/local-news-jamestown-unearthed-recycled-breastplate-stoneware-found-in-probable-cellar/

CT Scan technology is being used to analyze artifacts to help identify the presumed important persons buried under the church.

http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/08/cornell-technology-identifies-artifacts-jamestown-graves

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I have been hearing from people who are going to get a detector and start detecting and people who want to know the laws.  That happens every time after a big discovery.  People get excited and people that have never detected before get interested.

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Yesterday I wrote about the Environmental Metal Detecting Movement and the proposed Environmental Clean-up Crews.

Here is the first picture from an independent volunteer of the ECC (Dan B.).

Removed By Dan B. From A Boat Launch Area.

Just an example of the type of work provided by the ECC.  Good work Dan!

For those of you thinking of going out and buying your first detector, you can find a lot more of these than gold coins.  Just a reality check.

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Fred is a tropical storm and won't affect us.  It will dissipate in the middle of the Atlantic.


The Treasure Coast will only have something like a one foot surf through the weekend.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

12/14/13 Report - Design Features of 1711 - 1713 Mexican Escudos and Beach Conditions

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Type of Cross Shown on 1711 - 1713 Mexican Escudos.
Illustration from Cobs, Treasure Coins and Pieces of Eight
 \\\by Sewall Menzel.

Yesterday I showed a photo of a one-escudo found by one of this blog's readers.  Today I'll examine some of the features of cobs like that.

First, 1711 - 1713 Mexico escudos displayed a cross with "crosslets" at right angles to each arm, as opposed to the box-ended cross of immediately preceding years.  See the illustration here as compared to the photo of the one-escudo that was submitted.






  

One-Escudo from Yesterday's Post.

The date of this cob, partially shown on the other side of the cob, is 1711.

The design of the cross we see here seems to match that date period.

I'm certainly not a cob expert.  I just pass along what little I've learned from good resources and experience.

If I got any of this wrong, feel free to correct me.

Shield Design For 1711 - 1713 Mexican Escudos.
Same Menzel Source.

Escudos of this date and mint show the OXMJ mint mark and assayers initials, and the Bourbon arms covers most of the lower-right castle.

The date, as you can see, is displayed at the upper left corner of the shield.  And the denomination to the right of the shield.  This particular illustration shows VIII, indicating the illustration is for an eight-escudo rather than a one-escudo.

Here is the photo of the one-real that I showed yesterday.  The shield matches up well.

You can not see the denomination to the right of the shield on the one-escudo, but you can see the partial date at the upper left corner of the shield.

I got out to the beach this morning finally.  The wind was blowing out of the South.  Here is one of the better looking spots that I saw.  The cut in front was about two feet at the highest.

I stopped at another beach, which had no cuts at all.

The front of the beach had a lot of shells that were covered by sand a little sand.  That hasn't changed much for a few weeks.

I'm sticking with my 1 (poor) beach conditions rating.  I think that is what it has been since December and maybe the last week or so of November.

Conditions are poor, but still better than summer conditions.



Here is the fascinating account of a fellow that was saved after spending 60 hours 100 feet underwater in a sunken tug boat.   Amazing!

I think I would have died.  The survivor found the Psalms to be a very present help in a time of trouble.

http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2013/December/VIRAL-Man-Attributes-Miracle-Survival-to-Psalm-54/


Unlike most big web sites, I'm not selling, advertising or promoting anything here.  Just a reminder.


Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net