7/14/18 Report - More Treasure Coast Cobs and Monograms for Comparison.

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Mexico Half Real Treasure Coast Find 

The last few days I've been showing some cobs from a May 2013 hunt.  Here is one more Mexico half reale from that hunt.  This one is about the same size as the one I showed yesterday, and also shows a fairly nice monogram.

Yesterday I also mentioned paying attention to any patina or encrustation.  If you compare this one with the one I showed yesterday, you'll notice that they have very similar pieces of shell adhering to the surface of the cob.

Philip Monogram on Same Mexico Half Reale

Unfortunately this one doesn't show the assayer mark like the one I showed yesterday.

I'll put them side by side.

Two Half Reales From the Same Hunt.

The two cobs have nice monograms and were found during the same hunt at John Brooks beach.  I chose to show cobs from this hunt primarily because of these two nice monograms.  I'm glad I had them labeled so I know where and when they came from.

The assayer mark is missing from the one on the left, but you might be able to see a piece of the M mint mark to the left of the P.  They seem to be similar, yet there are differences.  The one on the left has a big dot under the loop of the P, for example.

So far I've shown the half reales, which I like, but here is another cob from the hunt that is a bit bigger.

Mexico-Minted  One Reale

Shield On One Reale.

Instead of a monogram, the one reale shows part of a shield.  Ths one is still covered with encrustation.

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There is a good high and low tide today.  It would be a good day for some shallow water hunting,

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11/22/17 Report - More Reales Found On Beach Last Week. Mystery Item and Miscellaneous Finds. Treasure Coast Beaches.

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John Brooks Beach Yesterday.

The beach at John Brooks was firmer than it looked.

Walton Rocks Yesterday.

You can see the dip in front of the beach and course materials (small shell pieces) along the beach.

Turtle Trail Yesterday
Photo by Darrel S.

We had a pretty good week last week.  The beaches aren't that good now.  Darrel says that the only the tops of some bags are now showing at Turtle Trail.

Some of Darrel's FindsPhoto by Darrel

Notice the cut penny in the upper right corner of the photo.  This isn't the first one that people have shown me lately.  It seems someone is doing that again.

Below is a mystery item found last week.

Front of Item
Photo by DB

Back of Same Item
Photo by DB

DB (not Dan B.) who found it said, I was wondering if you could help ID this object. Found it during the last set of north winds that came through. I put it next to a tab for size reference. It's lead.

I'm surprised it is lead. It appears to be attached to something by iron. The person said the bottom part sticking down is round and not broken off.

I can't place it. Any ideas? Let me know what you think.


They were found around the same time this one real and half real were found by the same person.

One Real and Half  Real Last Week
Found by DB

I posted what looked like might be a heavily encrusted bracelet last week.  It was found by Scott in the Cape Canaveral area.  It turned out to be the badly corroded earring shown below. 

Earring Find After Cleaning.
Find and photo by Scott

I picked up some fossils yesterday.  I'll talk more about that some other time.

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Happy Thanksgiving.
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1/7/16 Report - I Missed It, But Not All Of It.

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One Reale and Half Reale

Sometimes you miss by an inch and sometimes by an hour or a day.  You have to be in the right place at the right time.

I had it figured right this week, but life got in the way.  I had an injury and had to get to the doctor as soon as I could.  He could only fit me in at 7:30 Tuesday morning.  That was when I was planning on hitting the beach.  The surf and wind were right, and I knew a place that had produced in recent months under similar circumstances, so I wanted to be there. It didn't happen.

That was the only time the doctor could fit me in and I needed to go.  I thought it might not take too long so I packed all of my gear in the car so I could go directly to the beach from the doctor's office.   Well, it turned into a big deal and took much longer than expected.  Then I needed to go to the pharmacy for antibiotics.   They couldn't fill the prescription right away, so I had to come back later.

The doctor said I shouldn't do much of anything.  I still felt like going to the beach, but all things considered, thought it wasn't a good idea.  I still wasn't ready to give it up, and went out to a closer beach just to see what it looked like.  It didn't look much good, and I didn't feel so good so I thought I better give up on detecting for the day and go home.  End of story.  I missed it - not all of it, but the main event.  That is the way it goes sometimes.

I didn't miss everything.  I definitely missed the first day, but I did manage to get out a little, and managed to pick up a few things.

The spot continued to produce for a few days and might continue to produce for a few more days. Only time will tell. to come.  Under the circumstances maybe I should count myself lucky to have found as much as I did.

I don't know that I've ever seen a time when the finds have been so predominately from one small spot while most of the beach isn't doing anything.  Usually if one beach is good, there will be some others that aren't all that bad.

The spot that I'm talking about has been producing on and off for at least three months now.  First a day or two on then a couple weeks off, but this week it has been producing for a few days.  I think the most this week.

I found a little but missed most of it.  There has been a lot found.  I've heard of nearly 200 shipwreck items of various sorts.  Not too many cobs, but at least one gold cob and some other neat items.

Most of the beaches look poor right now and have not been producing much of anything old.  I haven't issued a beach detecting conditions upgrade because as far as I know, the conditions have only been good at that one spot.  My beach detecting conditions rating isn't meant to rate a single beach.  It is meant to reflect general conditions along the Treasure Coast.

I know everybody will want me to tell them which spot I'm talking about.  I did give some hints, but didn't tell it outright because I don't want hundreds of people showing up at that one spot.

Shortly after I started this blog I quickly found out that if I said that a particular beach was good a hundred people would show up at that beach.  I got a lot of complaints from people because of that. As a result I try to give good information on when it might be a good time to go, but don't want to send everybody out to one little spot.  If you carefully read what I've said the past few days you can probably figure it out for yourself anyhow.

I'll have more pictures of what has been found.  I already mentioned the gold coin.  A lot of lead was found, including musket balls.

For the time being, at the top of the post is a couple of finds.

Tomorrow the surf is supposed to be 5 - 7 feet, but the wind will be coming from the south.  That will be a change from today.  It will be interesting to see what happens.

South of Turtle Trail Near Low Tide Thursday.

A lot more of the bags were showing yesterday.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide

11/15/13 Report - Another Find and Current Beach Detecting Conditions

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Found One Reale 11/15

The one reale to the left was found on the Treasure Coast today.   It is a little healthier than those I've been seeing.  It weights 2.1 grams.  Still very much under weight for a one reale, but that is what I've been seeing from beach cobs.

A one reale should be 3.4 grams, so it has lost about one third of its weight.

Maybe I'll get some better photos and detail later.


The big news for me is that cobs are still being found on the Treasure Coast.  And it looks like there will be more this month, which has already been a good month - one of the best we've had for quite some time.  As I've said, November has traditionally been one of the better months for detecting on the Treasure Coast.

This morning the cut that I showed yesterday was about a foot less high.  It had filled some.  The beach in front of the cut had a fairly steep slope to it.  Some of it was firmer than at other spots.

Near the front beach there was a shell pile along the swash area, but you could not see the shells.  The shell pile was covered by a few inches of sand.  The shell pile contained some larger non-ferrous targets that could not be removed because of the surf.

The surf is going to be decreasing for a few days down to around 3 feet and then increasing again up to around seven feet.  As long as this continues there is a chance things will continue to improve. The high tides are still fairly high, as are the low tides.

There are a lot of places to check out.  I'll keep a 3 rating on my Treasure Coast Treasure Beach Detecting Conditions Scale for now.

Below are some shots from a day or two ago of Treasure Coast beaches sent in by Joan T.
Thanks Joan!

Walton Rocks.

Tiger Shores

Blind Creek

Fletcher Beach.

As you can see, different beaches are different.  Some nicely cut, some not cut and some scalloped. I was a little slow in getting these posted, so you might see some changes, but it will give you an idea.

A needle in a haystack is nothing to finding cobs on the beach.

Happy hunting,
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