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| One Display At the Vero Coin Show |
I visited the coin show in Vero and saw a lot of familiar faces and talked to a lot of nice people, both beach-detectorists and coin collectors.
Above is one of the display cases. As you can see there were coins, but there were also artifacts.
They raffled some very nice items.
Below are some of the items that were on display and for sale.
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| Gold Belt Piece From the Maravillas. |
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| Navigational Instrument and Some Coins. |
The show was put on by the Treasure Coast Coin Club that meets one Wednesday per month at IRRSC in Fort Pierce.
There was no admission fee, and there were hard-copy out-of-date numismatic magazines free for the taking.
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A couple days ago I gave an excellent web site that tells how to identify fakes. I mentioned that they are often of the wrong metal and have plating that may be pealing. Here is an example of that.
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| Fake Eight-Reale |
This is an exceptionally chunky fake. It is made of copper or some copper alloy and was plated. You can also see that the plating is wearing off.
If I correctly recall, I dug this one down around Jensen Beach some years ago.
If I correctly recall, I dug this one down around Jensen Beach some years ago.
The other side of the same fake is encrusted.
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| Sane Fake Eight-Reale Showing "COPY" |
Fake or reproduction coins are supposed to have the word "COPY" on them, and they often do, but sometimes it is not easy to see. In this case, the word is large and right in the middle of the coin. The "COPY" is very obvious in this picture, but when you dig up a fake, it can be covered with sand, encrustation, or corroded so that you may not see it. This one shows up well now, but I didn't see it when I was at the beach and it was still wet and had sand on it.
Sometimes the "COPY" mark is intentionally small and not at all easy to see. Sometimes it has been removed by nature and sometimes by man.
Pealing plating on an artifact does not necessarily mean the item is a fake. Medallions and other artifacts that were plated can lose some of all of the original plating.
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| Bottle Finds by One of This Blog's Readers. |
The middle bottle is a very nice Hood's Sarsaparilla bottle from the late 1800s.
Remember, when beach conditions aren't great, there is always some place else to hunt and other things to find. I'll show you more of those in the near future.
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| Source: MagicSeaWeed.com |
We're having a west wind. As you can see from the MagicSeaweed chart, on the Treasure Coast we're going to have an increase surf on Tuesday and Wednesday. There is a chance of better detecting conditions, but I'm not expecting too much. It will be worth checking out.
The tides now are big. Tonight I think a lunar eclipse will begin after 9:30 or so.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comast.net
