10/14/18 Report - Treasure Coast Finds Beautifully Displayed. Escudos and Silver Cobs At Auction. New Weather.

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

Very Nice Display of Treasure Coast Finds.

Finds and photo by Terry S.

I recently asked people to send in pictures of displays they have created to show their finds.  Terry S., a very well known Treasure Coast detectorists, sent in photos of displays that he created, including the one shown immediately above.

Here is his description of the items.

Top to bottom. Latch believed to be 1715, a 1/2 reale, 3 fishing weights, a silver trade cross with the image of a candle on the lower half. This stands for the light of Christ and was used to trade with the natives. A lead bottle cap, a silver ring believed to be old, ships spikes, a musket ball, two pieces of kangki blue & white porcelain 1715, two prehistoric  horses teeth and a megalodon sharks tooth. 

Terry also said,  I enjoy your blog and read it every day. Well done!

Thanks for sharing Terry.  That is one beautiful treasure display!

Notice the variety of types of treasure featured in this display.  

I hoped that by showing various ways of displaying finds, it would encourage others to do something nice with their finds.  Terry's is a very beautiful example, but I'd like to get photos of all kinds of displays, even if they show only one or two items.  Sometimes a single find can be displayed very nicely by itself.

I'd like to receive a photo of your favorite find or finds displayed.

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The current Sedwick Coins auction begins with thirty-two 1715-Fleet escudos.  There are a few that already have bids.

The auction also includes a number of heavily corroded silver cobs like those you might find on a Treasure Coast beach even though they are from a variety of other wrecks.  Being in less than excellent condition, they are also less expensive.  

If you are hunting for cobs on the Treasure Coast beaches and you haven't found many yet, you might want to look through lots 1777 to 1871 just to become more familiar with the kind of cobs you might  expect to find.

Auctions are very educational.  I recommend that you browse the catalog.

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The most read blog post of the past month is the following:

http://treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com/2015/05/52815-report-unique-beach-treasures.html

It isn't a recent post, but got a lot of attention recently.

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Source: nhc.noaa.gov

I was surprised to see some new activity on the weather map.  The system at about 80W is at about the same location where Michael formed.

We'll have to watch those systems.  It is late in the year but still very warm.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net