Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.
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| Find and photo submitted by Robert H. |
On June 1 clues will go out via Tweet for envelopes of cash hidden in the Orlando area.
I previously told about the same thing happening in San Francisco, but those in the Orlando area have the chance to go on a hunt for cash Saturday.
Yesterday I showed a photo of a pile of trash picked up by Robert H. People don't generally show that type of thing, but it is important.
I often recommend picking up the trash. Trash on a beach can tell you a lot. It can tell you something about what other detectorists have been there before you and what they did or didn't do. It can tell you how things are distributed. In the wet sand it can tell you which way to go to find treasure.
From his picture of the trash he had picked up, I could tell that Robert had found some treasure. If you are picking up trash like that you will find treasure. Show me a man's trash and I can tell you something about how he hunts, where he hunts, and most importantly something about what treasure he has found.
I was right when I said that Robert had probably found some nice treasures. He just sent me some pictures of his treasures.
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| Another find photo submitted by Robert H. |
Robert has done exceptionally well for the short time he has been detecting.
From the trash photo I could tell that Robert has taken my advice concerning picking up the trash, and he has some really great finds to show for it. I'm just showing two of them today.
Robert has made some real quality finds. You don't find those everywhere. To find quality, you have to be hunting where quality is.
Trash usually comes before treasure no matter where you are.
Congratulations on the great finds Robert! And thanks for sharing.
When it comes to rings, simple solitaire diamonds can be among the most valuable, often more valuable than bigger or more flashy rings. They can hold expensive quality diamonds, but are not the easiest to detect, especially when deep.
I've told before about how when I started detecting I didn't think women lost as many rings as men. That is because I was using discrimination and missing the smaller rings. Women lose a lot of rings too. I found that out when I learned to turn my discrimination off.
Analyze what you are finding or not finding. That can tell you if you should make adjustments to your detector settings, especially if you are missing one type of desirable item.
Another type of mistake is focusing too much on one type of target. If you are finding a lot of rings but never find watches, there is probably a good reason that you missed the watches - maybe discrimination. Maybe you aren't picking up the watches because even some good ones can sound like junk instead of sounding like a coin or ring, which, of course, are smaller.
You should get an idea of what type and amount of different types of items you should be finding. I once knew what proportion of rings to coins should be found on the dry sand, wet sand and water. I was keeping good records and figured out the numbers. Unfortunately I don't have those numbers now, but still know roughly in my mind what the proportions should be like at different types of beaches and know when I'm about due or overdue to find one particular type of item under different conditions.
You might remember the headlines from back in April about the $11 million gold coin cache (the Saddle Ridge Hoard) found in California. It is now being sold off.
One 1874 $20 Double Eagle, which typically sells for around $4,250, sold for $15,000.
Here is the link for more of that story.
http://blogs.marketwatch.com/themargin/2014/05/28/first-rare-gold-coin-to-sell-from-great-buried-treasure-ever-nets-for-15000/
After today the surf on the Treasure Coast will be increasing a little daily until it peaks at about three to five feet on Tuesday. This is a good day to get in some water hunting before the surf increases.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net
