9/17/18 Report - Reviewing Some of the Neat Treasure Coast Finds of the Summer of 1918.

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

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Silver Frame Found by Grant, Diver on the Bottomline
Photo by Captain Jonah Martinez

Before all the storm activity I was going to look back at some of the find's made on the Treasure Coast his summer.  It was a slow summer, but there were some great finds.

Among the top finds were those made by the salvage crews.  I posted a photo of the silver frame found by Grant and the crew of the Bottomline.  That is a very unique and significant discovery.

Author and researcher Laura Strolia provided this blog with some excellent research on the object.  She said it is probably a retablo associated with St. John.

Here is the link to that post.

http://treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com/2018/08/81218-report-research-on-amazing-2018.html

This wasn't the only find made by the crew of the Bottomline.  I also showed a nice silver candlestick bottom, silver cob and olive jar shard found by those guys.

There were beach finds made by individual detectorists too.  One of my favorite beach finds was the cannon ball that was hidden in a conglomerate.  That was found by Fred B.

Here is that link.

http://treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com/2018/08/82318-report-big-surprise-found-in.html

There was also a gold nugget found on a Treasure Coast beach by Duane C.

Here is that link.

http://treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com/2018/08/gold-nugget-recently-found-on-treasure.html

I've found gold nuggets on Treasure Coast shipwreck beaches in the past.  This one looked different, but that was something that isn't found every day.

I probably forgot or missed a lot of great finds.  If you have Treasure Coast find from this summer that you want me to post, send a photo and description.

My personal favorite finds this year were not found on a beach.  A 1914 ten-dollar gold coin in excellent condition and over twenty silver dollars were found, along with a bunch of other older coins.  That helped ease the frustration of not getting out to the beach very much.

I was going to post more today but am tired of trying to work with a messed up computer.

There isn't any significant tropical weather to watch now.  The surf will be around two or three feet for most of this week.

A fellow up north got killed by a shark.

Florence is still dumping rain on North Carolina and other northern states.

I heard from some of the guys up in North Carolina that hunt the treasure beaches up there.  There will undoubtedly be some good finds made up that way.

Pray for those who had flooding and damage.

Thanks to the many volunteers who helped the residents.

That is all for now.


Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

8/12/18 Report - New Research on The BottomLine's Amazing 2018 Treasure Find. Russian Gold Shipwreck Fraud.

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

Silver Picture Frame Found by Grant Working on the BottomLine
Photo by Captain Jonah Martinez

This is the same find that I posted a couple of weeks ago, but I have new information about the frame from Laura Strolia, researcher and author the of book, Marigalara of the 1715 Fleet.  

Laura sent me an email containing the following information.

The objects on the bottom of the frame are eagles, shown as tetramorphic symbols for St. John the Evangelist.

Inside the frame would have been a retablo (devotional painting), likely of St. John the Evangelist. It could have also contained a painting depicting the Ascension of Christ, as the eagle represented this Holy Event.

The following link shows a Spanish Colonial retablo of St. John the Evangelist that was painted on tin.

It measured 12"(H) x 8.25"(W).

Retablo of St. John with Eagle.
Source: See link immediately below.

  https://www.invaluable.co.uk/auction-lot/retablo,-john-the-evangelist-6203-c-d00431bb65

Laura Strolia

Thanks much Laura!  I can't wait to get a look at your upcoming book whenever it is ready.

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In the recent past I posted a few articles about a Russian shipwreck supposedly containing huge amounts of gold.  The amount of gold seemed to change every time I saw a new article.  Well, now it seems that it that the whole thing might have been part of a fraud.

Here is what Popular Mechanics had to say about it.

A South Korean company that announced it had found more than a hundred billion dollars in gold treasure in a Russian warship is under investigation for possible fraud. The gold apparently does not exist and the company allegedly planned to use news of the treasure to boost a new cryptocurrency...

Here is the link for the rest of the article.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/amp22698769/russian-treasure-ship-fraud-cryptocurrency/

Brian B. sent me that link.  Thanks Brian.

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There is one disturbance in the Atlantic, but it is already far east and north of us, so of no interest.

The tides are big even though the surf is very small.   Both good high and low tides.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net