Written by the Treasureguide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report. Copper Maravedi Found by Bill P.See: The Treasure Beaches Report Direct From Florida's Treasure Coast.: 1//6/2011 Report - Maravedi & More Wet Sand Hunting Doing this blog for about a decade and a half, I've received a lot of reports from a lot of people - beach detectorists and treasure salvors alike.  Over that time, I've seen a pretty good sample of what has been found on the Treasure Coast.  It is certainly not a systematically collected sample, but a relatively large sa ..read more

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report. California Missions Spoons. I showed some spoon finds in previous posts.  I remember showing a Chicago World's Fair spoon and some others.  I also talked about sterling silver flatware finds and the price of silver,.  I'm sure that many detectorists have found old spoons.  They can be good finds, so I was happy to find a very extensive seb site on spoons.    It is very extensive. Above you see California mission spoons, which is one of the many categories displayed in this virt ..read more

 Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.i  I can't believe I overlooked this. People collect old checks. And I recently found some from the 1930s and thought they were pretty neat, but even at that, I never thought of checks as being collectibles, which is strange since I look at so many things that way.  I must have gone batty from all the work. Check collecting is generally accepted to be a branch of bank note collecting. Many checks are collected because of the name of the bank on which they are drawn, vignettes that appear on the ..read more

  Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report. Hutchinson Island Beach Hunted Sunday by Mark G. Mark G. sent the following report and accompanying photos. I got all my chores done and managed to get out Saturday for a short time, weather was gorgeous. I hunted a small public beach on Hutchinson Island about a 100 yards of surf at low tide around 2:00 to 4:00 PM. You can see the cuts are all well sanded in and the low flat areas were pretty soft indicating fresh sand, the winds from the SE were doing their job. My first hit was a dime hunting ..read more

  Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of he Treasure Beaches Report. Gold chain, 30 grams, 30-1/2 inches, ex-1715 Fleet. A very tight braid in bent-wire links of high-grade gold (XRF tested at 21-1/2K), great length for a necklace but with ends unfinished as used for a "money chain" to avoid high taxes in its time, fully intact with just a few kinks, highly desirable as an original and officially certified gold object from the 1715 Fleet. From the Douglass Beach site of the 1715 Fleet, with Queens Jewels photo-certificate 75906. Above is a gold chain and the lot descripti ..read more

  Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report. When I posted this, the Atocha gold bar had a bid of $180,000.  The auction estimate is 200,000 to 400,000. I think the bar is the highest priced lot in the auction.  It is the highest that I remember seeing. --- Sherman W. sent the following email. Years (decades) ago I was searching Wyatt Earps dads house out in California There was a mound of dirt I leveled and found a $5 gold piece. And at a location at Fort Capron I dug around 1000 targets in a small area.  Good spots you nee ..read more

  Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report. A selection of the Fitzwilliam Museum coins which were studied, including coins of Charlemagne and Offa. (The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge via SWNS)© Provided by talker The mysterious origins of England's Dark Age silver coins have finally been revealed, shedding light on trade between the nation and the rest of Europe. Researchers discovered the coins - which are as much as 1,350 years old - had both Byzantine and later French origins as politics on the continent changed. r ..read more

  Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report. Silver-Plated Fork Recently Detected While Junking. I haven't detected hardly at all lately. I've been spending a lot of time getting my mother's house ready to sell, but I found a few minutes to do a little junking. Didn't have time to spend driving to the beach, so just went out and worked a short time in a junky area that I've worked before. I picked this United Airlines fork out.  Do you remember when you got inflight meals with silverware?  It has been a while. United Airlines Ma ..read more

  Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report. Recent Treasure Coast Coin Find Believed to be a British Groat. I posted the above coin found by Tom on the 21st.  Since then Tom has been able to make out some of the detail on the coin.  Here is what he said. Thanks for posting the pictures of the coin. Since posting I have realized that on the front side of the coin, you can see the word Regina, so and believing that this is a Queen Elizabeth I British groat. Attached is a little better picture. Weights 3.8 g. Second Image ..read more

  Written by the Treasureguide for the exclusive use of the Treaure Beaches Report. Coin Found by John L. With New John L bought a Manticore at Gary Mueller's Treasure Coast Metal Detectors shop in January, He said that although the learning curve has been higher than he was used to, he has done pretty well with the Manticore the dozen or so times he used it.  For example, John found the Barber coin shown above at an inland site he detects. --- A trove of artifacts — including cannonballs and coins — were recently found among the ruins of a centuries-old fort on a Ca ..read more