Written by the TreaureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachereport.blogspot.com.
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| Newly Found Royals Photos submitted by Captain Jonah Martinez. |
Here are nine newly discovered royal beauties for your viewing pleasure. Mostly dated 1711, but also a a couple 1712s. All are mint marked OXMJ, as I hope you can see.
Here is a Fox News Video interview with Brent Brisben, co-founder of 1715 Fleet Queens Jewels, talking about the new finds, which besides Royals, also included 300 2-escudos as well as other denominations. I showed some of those yesterday.
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| Brent Brisben Being Interviewed On Fox News Source: link immediately below. |
As exciting as all that is, you might wonder what all of that has to do with the beach hunter. People will get excited and get out on the beach wanting to find gold coins, but not a lot has changed for the beach hunter since the big find. Beach conditions remain unchanged.
Beach hunters have been marching up and down that beach just yards away from where those coins were found for months now with little result. Think about that. Think about how close all that gold was. So close and yet so far. The Capitana guys weren't a hundred yards off-shore. These finds were made in just a few feet of water in front of the beach.
Metal detecting, like horse-shoes is a game of inches. As much as we love our super detectors, coins have to be right under the coil, and not only that, they can not be down very far under the coil. You can miss a coin by an inch one way or another, either being to one side or down too deep.
Did you ever imagine that there was so much treasure so close to where you were walking? Those things have been out there for three hundred years. Some people have said, its all gone. There's nothing left. How wrong they were!
The main point for the beach detectorists is that you never know what is just below your feet or just a little over to one side or another.
Don't forget. This isn't the norm for the salvage crews either. This is a BIG hit. It was years in coming. It has been a long time since anything like this. It took perseverance. It took work. There have been many hot frustrating days and dry holes. Then the big hit.
It makes it all the more special that it doesn't happen all the time. It is so hard to come by and so rare that the celebration is that much greater.
We don't have their feelings. We didn't have their experience. But we can relate to it in one way or another. And we can all share in the celebration.
We all know what it is like to work and work and work with little to show for our efforts, not knowing when we might finally hit the big one, and then one day, there it is.
Let us all celebrate work and the human spirit, Let us all celebrate adventure and life itself, as we go through the ups and downs of life. Let us all learn the lesson of perseverance too.
I've said before in this blog that there is a lot of treasure under the sand right in front of the beach. Some day we'll have a storm like the famed Thanksgiving Day storm that I wrote about a few months ago, and beach conditions will change. The beach will be littered with coins. Maybe you'll be lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time.
Not all of the coins will be gold or old. But when discovered they will all be a part of the adventure and become a part of someone's life.
You might remember when I posted an ad for Captain Jonah in this blog before the salvage season began when he was looking for one more diver. He found that diver through this blog. And that diver, who had contributed to this blog from time to time before that, got to be a part of this big find. I'm really happy for that diver. And I'm glad that this blog played some very small part - as infinitesimally small and remote as it was. And I'm happy that the captain and crew of the Capitana just became a big part of treasure history.
We are all fortunate to be able to see these newly discovered historic coins. Thanks for sharing guys!
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Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep. Romans 12:15.
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Don't forget to look at yesterday's post if you didn't see it. More coins shown there.
The Atlantic is heating up. Besides tropical storm Danny, there are two other disturbances.
Keep watching Danny.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net
