6/22/19 Report - Cache Hunting and Finds. Paper Money and Fancy Serial Numbers Having Value.

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

Cache Hunting Book by H. Glenn Carson.

Cache hunting is a lot different from hunting coins on a beach.  Depending upon the type of cache hunting you are doing, you might come back with nothing a lot of the time, but if you hit find a cache, it can hundreds of coins or other objects all at once.

One of the things I like about cache hunting is that you can find paper money as well as coins.

One of the challenges is that your metal detector ID meter won't be a much help a lot of the time.  It isn't going to read pot of coins or bag of paper money.  And a lot of the time you'll have to sift through a lot of junk, metal and otherwise.

You don't have to find a ghost town to hunt caches, they can be found a lot of places, including back yards, and maybe even your own house.  You might be surprised how often people hide valuables and forget about them.

There are also more broken down abandoned buildings than you might suspect.  Sometimes they are hidden in overgrowth and sometimes there is little to indicate that they ever existed.

I've reported on a lot of cache finds in this blog.  Most were accidental rather than specific targeted caches.

Here is a very small part of one Florida cache find made by one of the readers of this blog.

Anyhow, Glenn's book is the only one I know of about cache hunting.  There is a newer addition (Cache Hunting II).  There must be some by other authors, but I don't know of them.  There isn't a lot of useful information you can find on the topic in general.  You almost have to have a specific cache in mind, otherwise it is very general.

Glenn used to write for at least one treasure magazine, as well as authoring a lot of books, and for a while, I think it was in the 80s, published a treasure hunter's newsletter.  We communicated on a couple projects.

He once put together a group that invested in a Mexican silver mine.  That turned out to be a scam and people lost money.  I know there was talk of people suing, but I don't know who was the defendant or whatever became of that.

I've reported on a few caches found by readers of this blog in the past.

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Serial Number 82882228

I enjoy checking the serial numbers of my bills.  I haven't been doing it more than a few months, and this is one of the better ones I've found, even though it isn't worth much.   The serial number is 82882228.  Some people call any serial number with only two different numbers a binary.  Others only consider a serial number with only 1s and 0s to be a binary.  I've seen a few with two numbers like that offered on eBay for around ten dollars.

It would have been better if it was a radar or repeater, ie 88222288 or 82828282.

Checking serial numbers is really easy, although the valuable ones are surprisingly rare.  Condition is important.  This bill is limp and worn.  That isn't what serial number collectors want.

Of course older bills and silver certificates occasionally show up and can be valuable.

The more leading zeros you have on a currency, the higher the value will be. 

Serial number 00000001 – 00000009, most valuable
Serial number 00000010 – 00000099, always carry a premium
Serial number 00000100 – 00000999, could carry a premium
Serial number 00001000 and higher will rarely be worth more than face value

I've seen 00000001 serial numbered bills listed for tens of thousands of dollars, but the odds of finding one are very long.

If you are interested in old US bills or fancy serial numbers, here are some web sites to check.


http://oldcurrencyvalues.com/low_serial_numbers/



https://www.papermoneywanted.com/one-dollar-notes-values


http://oldcurrencyvalues.com/binary_serial_number/


http://www.mycurrencycollection.com/reference/star-notes/lookup


https://www.moneyfactory.gov/resources/serialnumbers.html

Many people collect "star notes." Star notes are used by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to replace misprinted/damaged currency before it goes into circulation. These replacement notes are printed just like normal notes, except there is a star printed in the serial number. On Federal Reserve Notes, the star is where the block letter normally is (the last letter of the serial number). On Legal Tender notes and Silver Certificates, the star is where the prefix normally is (the first letter of the serial number).  I've shown one of those before.

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I got into another container of dug pennies and separated out a couple dollars of spendable or cleanable pennies.  I hate those unusable salt water destroyed zinc pennies.

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The surf is very small, and the tides aren't very big either.

Happy hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net

3/4/19 Report - Manual For Cataloging Old Buttons. Shipwreck Finds. Searching Paper Money for Valuable Serial Numbers.

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Some Finds (Front and Back) By Joe S.

Photos by Joe S.

I just received the following email message and photos shown above.

Hello, I live in southern NJ and follow your blog all the time. I am retired and have been detecting for about 8 years. This is the first time I've decided to send you some of my finds. These pictures are some recent finds from a local beach known for shipwrecks just off the coast... 

Nice finds Joe.  Thanks for sharing.

Looks like the fronts of a couple ornate two-piece buttons, a flat button and an old nail that looks just like some of those we find on the Treasure Coast.

I get emails from around the world, even as far away as Australia.

Here is a link to an archaeological cataloging manual for buttons.

https://www.daacs.org/wp-content/uploads/buttons.pdf

Here is a part of a table from that document just to give you some idea of the type of information you can find there.

Part of Table from DAACS,org document referenced above.

You could use this table to identify the type of shank on the flat button shown above, for example.

I might add that link to my reference link list.

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Yesterday I mentioned hunting paper money.  Some paper money is worth more than face value.  It doesn't have to be old either.  I've mentioned before about what are called "fancy serial numbers."

For a few months now I've been checking the serial numbers on the paper money that passes through my hands looking for fancy serial numbers and low serial numbers that can be worth some extra money.

So far the lowest serial number I've found has four leading zeros.  Here it is.

I found a very good web site that gives good information, including approximate values for bills with low serial numbers.  Here is what it says.

Low serial numbers are really a lot of fun to see. The more leading zeros you have on a currency, the higher the value will be. However, this rule does need to be explained:

Serial number 00000001 – 00000009, most valuable
Serial number 00000010 – 00000099, always carry a premium
Serial number 00000100 – 00000999, could carry a premium
Serial number 00001000 and higher will rarely be worth more than face value

So my dollar with four leading zeros didn't quite make it, but I'm getting closer.

You might want to check out the web site. It provides a lot of good information. Here is the link.

I've seen 00000001 serial numbered bills listed for tens of thousands of dollars, but the odds of finding one are very long.


http://oldcurrencyvalues.com/low_serial_numbers/

I highly recommend the web site.  It also has information on old paper money, foreign paper money, star bills, counterfeit bills, etc. etc.

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On the Treasur Coast we haven't had much surf lately.  In a few days we'll get a bump in the surf, but only a small one.

Source: MagicSeaWeed.com

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

3/2/19 Report - Saddle Ridge Hoard of Gold Coins. New Inventory of Old Shipwrecks. Extinction of Coins and Money and Metal Detecting.

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Part of the Saddle Ridge Hoard: One Can of Gold Coins.

Source: CoinWorld.com

Dan Owens published an interesting article in Coin World.  The title is Who Buried the Saddle Ridge Hoard.

Mr. Owens did some very extensive research and names a variety of possibilities but ends without being able to answer the question concluding, "Perhaps in the end, the story was not about the burier of the hoard, rather, as Kagins described it, about John and Mary discovering the fabled pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.  Then he quotes Prentice Mulford saying, "It is mysterious Providence that impels any poor fellow to dig his pile, bury it for safe keeping, and then go off and die in some out of the way place without being able to leave any will and testament as to the exact hole where his savings lay."

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... Led by archaeologist Carlos León, the team has logged 681 shipwrecks off Cuba, Panama, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Bermuda, the Bahamas and the US Atlantic coast.

Its inventory runs from the sinking of the Santa María to July 1898, when the Spanish destroyer Plutón was hit by a US boat off Cuba, heralding the end of the Spanish-American War and the twilight of Spain’s imperial age...

It found that 91.2% of ships were sunk by severe weather – mainly tropical storms and hurricanes – 4.3% ran on to reefs or had other navigational problems, and 1.4% were lost to naval engagements with British, Dutch or US ships. A mere 0.8% were sunk in pirate attacks...

Archaeologists have located the remains of fewer than a quarter of the 681 vessels on the inventory to date...

Here is the link for the rest of the article.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/mar/01/spain-logs-shipwrecks-maritime-past-weather-pirates

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I heard somebody say that fewer people carry change these days.  I think he was talking about coins, but I think people are carrying less paper money too.  They simply don't pay with cash very often.

If people are carrying less money, it only stands to reason that they would lose less money.  That mean fewer easy targets for the coin shooter and require some changes in detecting strategies.  It might mean focusing on older coins rather than coins that were recently lost.

I suspect it won't be long before people quit carrying money altogether.  They can pay with a card, smart phone, or some newer way.  The end of money won't mean the end of metal detecting though.  There will be older coins that haven't been found yet, but as the numbers of those dwindle, detectorist will probably focus more on relics or other kinds of targets such as nuggets, meteorites or lost smart phones.  The reduction or elimination of physical money definitely has implications for detectorists as well as metal detector designers.  Another change might be increased targeting of non-metallic objects, including paper money.

I enjoy eye-balling, which is mostly about non-metallic targets.   Many years ago when I was in school, one day our gym class went out to pick up trash on the football field.  I found a dollar bill under the bleachers.  That is my earliest memory of finding paper money.  I still occasionally target paper money, and as with metal detecting, there are strategies.

One thing I've successfully done is visit fair grounds or other busy event locations early in the morning and check the fence rows on the down-wind side of the site.  I've done that several times with some degree of success.

One place you can find paper money on the beach is in the sea weed line.  Also I know where there is one place in the water in front of a busy resort where there is a shallow water dip that collects paper money.  There have also been several times when I was detecting in the water and seen a bill come floating by.   So far my biggest paper money finds have been twenties.

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I happened to see an old episode of the TV show River Monsters, and the fellow was catchting Bull sharks in the Indian River Lagoon at Fort Pierce.  He also seemed to spend a lot of time down by the power plant.

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The Treasure Coast is having a one foot surf and very small tides.  Those conditions make for easy water detecting.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

12/1/18 Report - Tips and Techniques for Finding Paper Money and Other Valuable Papers. News on the Atocha And Santa Margarita Sites.

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

Unidentified Paper Money Found in Pages of Old Book.

After Thanksgiving I told about finding a ten dollar bill on the floor of a restaurant.  I remembered that when I woke up this morning and started thinking about other times I found paper money.  There were actually quite a few, and there were even times when I set out to find paper money.

Of course, you don't do that with a metal detector.  There are, however, things you can do that will increase the probability of finding paper money.  One is being generally alert.  But there are also specific strategies for different times and places.

Finding paper money is one aspect of what I call eye-balling. Years ago I wrote an article about that for a treasure hunting magazine.  It was either Lost Treasure, Treasure, or Western and Eastern Treasures.  I forget which one right now.

I once found a twenty dollar bill while driving through the parking lot in front of a Bealls store.  You can find stuff while driving.  I once saw a watch on the street while driving.  I drove up to it, stopped, opened the door and picked it up.

I won't mention all the bottles, rings and other treasures that I've found visually, but will get back to paper money.  There are some places where you have a decent chance of finding paper money.

I always liked to search the grounds after a carnival, circus or fair. You could always find a good number of coins right after they left, and most of them would be on top of the ground so you could find a lot of them visually, but also there was also a good chance of finding paper money.

The best place to check at a fair grounds was the fence line on the down wind side.  Usually the fence line would also have a bunch of weeds that would help trap blown paper money.

At the beach I've found paper money in the seaweed along the seaweed line.

A lot of wind or big surf helps you chances.

There aren't so many of them out there anymore, but people used to leave cigarette packages on the beach.  I would always check out packages like that for any money.  There would occasionally be a folded bill stuffed inside.

I've also found paper money while metal detecting in the water.  I remember one time when a bill came floating by about a foot deep in the water.  It wasn't real easy to see.

There was also a dip in about six feet of water in front of one beach-side hotel where bills often collected.

Of course, paper money can be found in with coin caches.  

I used to stop at a thrift store to buy old and collectible books.  I once found a ten dollar bill in between the pages of a book I bought.

A lot of good things can be found in between the pages of old books.  Old calling cards, autographed papers, tickets, etc.

One of my favorites was the business card of Hoagie Carmichael Jr., which was in a book written by him.  I purchased the autographed book on building a fly rod for a dollar and sold it for around $125, as I recall.

I've also found very nice old photos in books, including one showing a some people in the old long bathing suits at a New Jersey beach.  It looked like it was from the twenties or thirties.  Also some nice wedding and other photos.

Old Photo Postcard Found Between Pages of An Old Book.

The clown postcard shown above was found in an old book.  It has the typical postcard look with the space for stamp and everything on the other side, but it also appears to have the name of the person (Charles H...).

Another favorite book find included a religious card with a small cloth relic attached.

Outdoors, consider the wind and water and where paper will evntually be trapped.

Indoors, consider anyplace where paper can be stuffed away for safe keeping.  Old books are one of my favorites.

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Recent calmer weather allowed a lot of salvage activity down around Key West.

The crew of the Dare has been trying to determine if there might be another debris trail on the Atocha site.  In the process they found a couple silver coins and a few EOs.

On the Margarita site, the Sea Reaper was searching for a missing section of the Santa Margarita.  There are about 22 chests of coins missing, including about 80 thousand pieces of eight.  They found a silver coin, musket balls and lead sheathing while searching.

Doug Pope has made an agreement with the Fishers, and the Polly-L be working with the Fisher organization again on the Santa Margarita site.  The Polly-L worked on the Margarita site back in the early 2000s and found a 40 carat uncut Colombian emerald.  It was the only emerald ever found on the Santa Margarita wreck site.  It was found in a conch shell.

Source: email from the Fisher organization.

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Let me know if you can identify the partial bill shown at the top of the page.

It looks like we'll have south winds and less than a two foot surf for a few days.  We might have something bigger after that.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

10/28/18 Report - Valuable Paper Money in Circulation. Watch For Cleaned Coins. Erosion in North Florida. Old Ship Found.

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Dug Corroded Partly Cleaned Penny.

I just cleaned a load of old corroded coins.  I tried a new experimental procedure that didn't work out real well.  I wouldn't recommend the process, but I sort of like the look of the coins.

You can often tell when you get somebody's dug coins in change.  I'm going to put a number of these in circulation, and am showing you with the hope that you'll tell me if you get one.  I know I'll recognize them if I get them back.  They all are banged up and corroded, having spent time in the surf.  They have a dark background scuffed bright high design features.

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Erosion in St. Augustine Area

Photo by Bruce B.

Bruce B. said the beaches in the St. Augustine area are losing a lot of sand and provided the photo above.

There is always some place to detect.  Some spots are better than others.  If you look around enough you can usually find a decent spot.

There is a tropical storm in the Atlantic: Oscar.  Below is Oscar's predicted track.

Tropical Storm Oscar.

Source: MagicSeaWeed.com

Oscar will, however affect us to some extent.

Wednesday Wind Predictions.

Source: Ventusky.com

You can see the north wind that we'll get Wednesday, when the Treasure Coast surf will increase.

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I've been enjoying checking the serial numbers of the paper money that I receive in change.  It is possible to receive a bill worth hundreds of dollars.  Many are worth less than that but more than the face value.

It is an entertaining activity with the possibility of profit something like playing the lottery but without the cost.  All you have to do is check.

Here are a couple web sites that describe serial numbers that might be worth something.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2423315/Dollar-Serial-numbers-make-banknotes-worth-thousands-online-trend.html

This one will give you some idea of the value of bills with various serial numbers.

http://coolserialnumbers.com/ForSale.aspx

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A centuries-old ship was found by archaeologists.

The finds include parts of a merchant vessel, a cog, dating back to the 13th century, as well as some imported German and Danish ceramics, possibly brought to Sweden on the same ship.

Here is the link for the articles and photos.

https://www.thelocal.se/20181024/archaeologists-find-medieval-ship-and-german-ceramics-in-enkping

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The weather is beautiful.  Just judging from the northeast wind that I see outside, I think you might be able to find some small cuts.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

5/20/18 Report - New Technology to Detect Paper Money. Diamond Ring Find. Engagement Ring Found and Returned. Royal Scotland Dock Yards.

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

New Diamond Ring Find.

That ring is heavier than it looks. 

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I'm always interested in new ideas and different ways of solving problems.  Here is an article about a different approach to finding large amounts of cash.  

Sniffing Out Billions in US Currency Smuggled Across the Border to Mexico

Criminals are smuggling an estimated $30 billion in U.S. currency into Mexico each year from the United States, but help could be on the way for border guards, researchers reported recently. The answer to the problem: a portable device that identifies specific vapors given off by U.S. paper money...

Here is the link for the rest of the article.

http://www.labmanager.com/news/2014/08/sniffing-out-billions-in-us-currency-smuggled-across-the-border-to-mexico#.WwDGmUxFzTg

I guess you could call it a cash sniffing machine.

$30 billion dollars could be used a lot of ways in the federal budget.

It reminds me of the time many years ago when I arrived at a Treasure Coast beach and found huge wrapped bails.  The bails must have been four or five foot cubes.  It was very early in the morning and no one was around.  One bail was down by the water, and one was up behind the dunes.  I wondered if it was cash and took a look.  It was pot, heavily wrapped so it wouldn't be damaged by water.

That is back in the day before cell phones.  I wondered if anyone would be returning for it.

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Here is a great story about an engagement ring that was found and returned by a metal detecting police officer.

May 16 (UPI) -- A Texas woman is praising a police officer who spent hours on a beach to find and return her lost engagement ring...

Jaradi used a metal detector and the pair searched together for hours before giving up for the night.

Haelen said she received a message from Jaradi about 4:30 a.m. saying he had found the ring...

And here is that link.

https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2018/05/16/Officer-searches-beach-for-hours-to-find-lost-engagement-ring/9661526490844/

I like to post found and returned stories.  If you have any new ones let me know.

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Archaeologists may have found Scotland's Royal dockyards.

https://www.falkirkherald.co.uk/news/environment/airth-archaeological-dig-sheds-more-light-on-royal-dockyards-connection-1-4740727

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After a good soaking is always a good time to check out old hunted inland sites again.

Happy huntng,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

5/19/18 Report - Old Paper Money. 800-year-old Made In China Label Found On Shipwreck. Researching Eddy Bottle. Florida Connection To Royal Wedding

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Old Faded Paper Money From France.

One thing about cache finds is that they can contain things besides coins - such as paper money.  This one is unfortunately in poor condition

Same Bill.

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The Florida Connection to the Royal Wedding.

If you watched the Royal wedding, as half of the people in the world did today, you might have heard commentators gush about how the wedding was bringing different world's together, but did you know that many of the family of the new princess live in Florida.  While all of the Royal fanfare proceeds, it seems that the only change to their daily lives is the constant annoyance of paparazzi.  I understand that it has been going on since Meaghan started dating Harry.

Source: DailyMail  (See link below)

In the same article you can see a photo of the uncle, Bishop Dismas, coming out of a Dollar Tree store near Sanford.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4686858/Meghan-Markle-s-uncle-bishop-church.html

You've probably also saw photos of her disabled sister, as well as her father.

Didn't they used to say that charity begins at home?

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Source: See link below.

Centuries ago, a ship sank in the Java Sea off the coast of Indonesia. The wooden hull disintegrated over time, leaving only a treasure trove of cargo. The ship had been carrying thousands of ceramics and luxury goods for trade, and they remained on the ocean floor until the 1980s when the wreck was discovered by fishermen. In the years since, archaeologists have been studying artifacts retrieved from the shipwreck to piece together where the ship was from and when it departed. The equivalent of a "Made in China" label on a piece of pottery helped archaeologists reevaluate when the ship went down and how it fits in with China's history...

Here is the link for more of that article.

https://m.phys.org/news/2018-05-shipwreck-year-old-china-reveal-lost.html?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email

Thanks to Douglas for that link.

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Yesterday I posted a picture of a old Eddy and Eddy, chemist bottle find.  I have been trying to find out more about that and did learn about a H. W.  Eddy of St. Louis, who is undoubtedly one of the two referred to on the bottle.  He was mentioned in various trade magazines such as the American Druggist, but I never found any mention of the other Eddy.  Below is one I found.

 I also found that H. W. Eddy produced a Lemon Extract.  The time period seems to be around 1910 - 1939.

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Another rainy day on the Treasure Coast.  I don't mind at all.   I have lots of coins to go through, as well as other research.

The tides are going out well today and tomorrow the surf will be up a little.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

5/2/18 Report - How To Find Valuable Old Paper Money In Circulation. Ponte Vedra Shipwreck.

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

1957 Silver Certificate.

In the past I've talked about watching your pocket change for interesting coins.  The same goes for your paper money.  I learned that recently when I came across some older bills that I decided to put aside and keep.

Above is a silver certificate.  You could redeem them for silver coins up to about 1967 I think it was.

This one wouldn't be worth more than face value because of its poor condition.  It is stained, creased and torn.  Not good!

I've seen some silver certificates offered for over a thousand dollars.  Condition is important, as are other factors. or

I've learned to quickly check for three things.  One is a star or asterisk instead of a letter after the serial number.  Those are valued by collectors.

Also bills with unusual serial numbers, such as 7777777 or 01010101 or 12344321 are sought.

Also check to see how old the bill is.  The one above is 1957.  It seems that a bill doesn't have to be as old as an old coin to be considered old.

Barr Dollar.

Bills signed by Joseph Barr are collected because Barr was only in office about a month and so you won't find many of those.

This one is pretty clean and crisp.

You might be able to get two or three dollars out of one of these.  They aren't more valuable because so many people started saving them when Mr. Barr died.

1929 C Five Dollar Bill.

I saw one of these five dollar bills graded at 63 offered for $259.  This one isn't near that good of condition.  As with every collectible condition is very important.

The red seal makes this one maybe worth close to ten dollars.

1934 Twenty Dollar Bill.

Again, this one isn't worth much.  If it was in perfect condition, it would be worth more.  If it had a brown seal instead of a green seal, it could be worth more.

... Twenty dollar bills from 1934 with a star symbol at the end of the serial number have a good chance to be worth $100 or more. The value of 1934 $20 star notes purely depends on condition and the serial number.

1934 $20 green seals can also have a low serial number. If the serial number of your bill has six or seven leading zeros then it will certainly command a premium. Five leading zeros might command a premium...
Here is a link for more about that.

https://oldcurrencyvalues.com/1934_20_dollar_bill_value/

You can find old bills worth more than face value in circulation, but you have to know a little about what to look for.  Maybe this will get you started.

Here are some serial numbers to watch for.

• Seven repeating digits in a row on $1 bills (i.e., 18888888, 59999999)
• Seven of the same number on $1 bills (i.e., 99909999, 00010000)
• Super repeaters on $1 bills (i.e., 67676767)
• Double quads on $1 bills (i.e., 44440000)
• Super radars on $1 bills (ie: 01111110, 80000008)
• Serial numbers 99999991-99999999 – any size/type/denomination
• Serial numbers X0000000, X0000001, and X9999999 – any size/type/denomination

And here is a link for more about that.

http://www.dontwasteyourmoney.com/rare-dollar-bills-worth-serious-money/

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Historic shipwreck in Ponte Vedra reveals more secrets.

That is the title of a new First Coast News article about the Ponte Vedra shipwreck that I talked about a few months ago. The bones of the ship remained on the beach for a while but has been moved and is now being studied.

What has been learned is that the ship was made of American Beech instead of oak, which leads them to believe that the ship was made in the southern U. S.

That is what they learned.

Here is the link.

https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/local/historic-shipwreck-in-ponte-vedra-reveals-more-secrets/77-547420568

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I have some good finds to talk about but I have to keep some of it for a while until I can do some background research.

We'll have a three to five foot surf this week, increasing about one more foot on Saturday.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

4/17/18 Report - Bluetooth Hoard Found By 13-Year-Old Detectorist. More On Beach Access Legislation. Older Paper Money In Circulation.

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

Source: TheGuardian.com link below.

A 13-year-old boy and an amateur archaeologist have unearthed a “significant” trove in Germany which may have belonged to the Danish king Harald Bluetooth who brought Christianity to Denmark.

René Schön and his student Luca Malaschnitschenko were looking for treasure using metal detectors in January on northern Rügen island when they chanced upon what they initially thought was a worthless piece of aluminium.

But upon closer inspection, they realised that it was a piece of silver, German media reported.
Over the weekend, the regional archaeology service began a dig covering 400 sq metres (4,300 sq ft). It has found a hoard believed to be linked to the Danish king Harald Gormsson, better known as “Harry Bluetooth”, who reigned from around AD958 to 986...

Here are two links for more about that.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/16/treasure-of-legendary-danish-king-bluetooth-unearthed-in-germany

https://www.livescience.com/62323-king-bluetooth-treasure-found.html?utm_source=notification

Another good archaeological find made by a young detectorist.

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Here is what FlaglerLive had to say about the beach access bill signed by Governor Rick Scott and how Flagler County is responding.

Your free access to many beaches in Flagler County is not so free anymore. A new law that easily passed both of Florida’s legislative chambers and that Gov. Rick Scott signed in March bars local governments from unilaterally enacting ordinances that protect the public’s “customary” use of beaches in front of private property.

Starting July 1, governments that want to adopt such ordinances much go through a laborious process and essentially have a legal action involving every beach-front private property owner, proving to a judge that the public has customarily used every one of those parts of the beach for a long time...

Here is the link.

https://flaglerlive.com/120856/beach-access-florida/

If you've been trying to figure out what the bill will or won't do from the articles that appear in the press, this on might help clarify a few things.

Thanks to Brian B. for that link.

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A lot of people check their change for older coins, but it might also be a good idea to check your paper money as well.

I cashed a check the other day and got a couple fifty dollar bills, and they turned out to be older bills.  They were 1990 series, which doesn't seem old for coins, but it can make a difference in paper money.

1990 Series Fifty Dollar Bill.

I found these are offered on eBay for $65 or $75 dollars.  I don't know how well they sell at that price.

The first thing that stuck out to me and told me these bills were older is the small 50 within the circle.  There are other differences, of course.

A couple things to look for are low serial numbers, and star bills.  Star bills are sold for a more.  The last letter in the serial number would be a star rather than the "B" you see above.

As with all collectibles, condition matters.

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We are having a small surf and some good low tides.

Expect the surf to increase a bit Thursday.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net