3/6/26 Report - Gold Hoard Metal Detecting Find and the Lessons It Teaches. Roman Era Gold Mines in Spain.

Written by the Treasureguide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.

Gold Stater Part of Hoard.
Source: See Noonans Mayfair link below.

Tom started metal detecting as a young boy but took a more serious interest in the hobby in 1994 as a teenager. While walking through Rye in East Sussex, he found a Charles I Rose Farthing in a flower bed, which immediately captured his imagination...  From the hoard, Tom and the landowner have chosen to keep a single Stater each and after splitting the money with the landowner, Tom plans to use some of the money raised to support local archaeological work in Suffolk.

As Tom explains: “The reason I went to this new field was because my niece was keen to go metal detecting, so I wanted to find a suitable location to take her. It was when I was there that I noticed that the field rose from a nearby stream in a gentle gradient and had dark silty soil, which was in a perfect condition on a dry October day, so I decided to use my trusty metal detector!

He continued: “Later that afternoon, I started to get signals and found two pieces of Viking hack silver. I continued searching and was astounded to find a gold stater, and after changing the settings and going up and down rows that I had marked out – I went into hunting mode and found another six staters! When it got to sunset, I called the landowner and took the coins to show him and his wife. Later that week, I returned to the field and found more coins – making a total of 17 coins!”...

Here is the link for the entire article.

HISTORY PROFESSOR FINDS IRON AGE GOLD! | Noonans Mayfair

Several things to notice there.  

1. Tom had a good knowledge of history.  

2.  He tried a new location.  There are tons of new areas out there to be explored.  It is easy to fall into habits even when they become unproductive.

3. He observed the lay of the land, including details of the soil and saw the significance of each.

4. He found some hack silver, which indicated old activity, so continued.  There was information in the first finds that encouraged continuing.

5. After finding gold, he changed settings, adapting to conditions according to the information obtained.

6.  Another stater was found.  How many times have I talked about birds of a feather flocking together, or to put in in more direct terms, how finding one type of an item increases the probability of more being found.  I once conducted a pole that showed that when people found one cob there was a very high probability that they would find more than one.

7.  He went into "hunt" mode.  He changed search strategies, going from exploratory, or what I would call "sampling" mode to a "hunt" mode, which, after taking into account all the information gathered to that poine, would be a very systematic slow careful and intensive search mode

I've described my progressive step-search strategy before.  See Treasure Beaches Report: Pt. 2. (2020 and Beyond). : 3/6/23 Report - If You Don't Like The Result You've Been Getting, Try Something Different. More On Step-Search Strategy.

The hoard recently brought in around $44,000 at auction.  Here is that link.

Detectorist’s Iron Age Gold Hoard Brings £33,200 at Noonans - Numismatic News

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A study by the UAB and the University of A Coruña has succeeded in demonstrating the existence of Roman-era alluvial gold mines in the Eastern Pyrenees...

The presence of gold in the alluvial deposits of the Segre River, as in other rivers originating in the Pyrenees, is a well-known phenomenon: it is secondary gold, originating from the Miocene deposits of the axial Pyrenees...

The Roman technique for extracting alluvial gold was based on eroding the gold-bearing deposits with water. They used various washing methods that ranged from simply channeling water through the sediments to constructing galleries and flooding them with pressurized water...

Here is the link for the source article.

Evidence of the existence of Roman-era gold mines in the Eastern Pyrenees - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona - UAB Barcelona

When we read a beach, we analyze how the water is moving sand and other objects such as coins.  We take advantage of what nature is doing to the beach.  I often think about ways of taking greater advantage of the same forces.  When I see any of the Gold Rush programs, for example, I can't help but think of the hydraulic mining techniques of the old miners.  The same techniques were once used on Padre Island.  I'm talking about hydraulic mining of the beach.  Of course, that is now illegal, but there are more passive methods.  Carter and Trevillian, in Diamonds in the Surf, told about meeting a man who created gold traps on the beach by arranging rocks.  You might still be able to find copies of that book.

If I were a gold miner, I would often think of hydraulic mining.  It would be fun to control the water rather than waiting on nature to erode sand.

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Over 18,000 views on the TreasureBeachesReport.blogspot.com yesterday.

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Surf Chart from Surfguru.com.

No big changes here, just a slight decrease over the week.

Good hunting,

Treasureguide@comcast.net

3/5/26 Report - Bit of Local History Exposed. Some Tuesday Coin Finds. Detecting in the News. New Coin in Circulation.

 Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.

Encrusted Coin After Some Cleaning.

I think the coin shown above is a mercury dime.  After about 24 hours in vinegar, I can almost make out the winged head of mercury.   It took perfect lighting to show that.  There is still a heavy black and very hard crust on the coin.  It is very much like the crust on a cob I found back in December.  The vinegar wasn't very effective on that one and so I began electrolysis but got interrupted and didn't finish it yet.  It looks like this one will require electrolysis too, but it probably isn't worth it except to satisfy my curiosity.  When I dug it, I could see no details at all but from the look of the corrosion and size of the coin I thought it was probably a silver dime.  That find encouraged me because I thought I might find some more old stuff.  Even though the other coins were mostly encrusted, they were on average only about fifty years old and the gold ring didn't look very old.

The coin shown below was also heavily encrusted and showed no details, but I could tell that it was clad by looking at the edge of that coin.  The mercury dime, on the other hand, shows a solid blackened and worn silver edge.

Edge on a Corroded Clad Dime

 

When you can't see a date, you can often tell if a coin is clad by looking at the edge of the coin where you'll often see some copper.

Tuesday I was also digging some small chewed up pieces of copper and other metal such as the piece shown below.

Encrusted Small Piece of Dug Metal.

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The story is that some podcasters recently scanned Annie Guthrie's yard with metal detectors.  The story doesn't seem to make a lot of sense to me.  They said they were looking for jewelry or anything that might have fallen off.  But the article continues as follows, "We didn’t find anything, but we’re just trying to do as much as we can without trespassing," he explained, while his volunteer partner shared that the "powerful" device they used could detect 15 feet underground.

I don't know what they were using that would be good for detecting jewelry that just fell off but that would detect 15 feet underground.  I don't know about that whole story.  

But here is the link.

Nancy Guthrie's Yard Scanned With Metal Detector; Annie To Get Car Back

Hope isn't just some podcasters trying to get some attention, and I really hope they aren't detectorists trying to get attention.

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Last month the first of the new semiquincentennial coins went into circulation.  This is what they look like.

 

AnnounceMints: The First 2026 Quarter Enters Circulation - Numismatic News

Anyone seen one of these?

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On my last metal detecting outing, I saw the remains of an old building foundation that was exposed on the beach as a result of the erosion.  All four outer walls were evidenced by a remaining foot or two of concrete..  There were gaps, but all four corners and most of the bottom of most of all four walls could be seen.  There was evidence of two rooms.

Remains of Foundation on Beach.

The photo above doesn't show all four walls well, but they were visible when I was there.

There were also concrete erosion control structures on the beach, but this foundation was something different.

A decade or two ago I saw a foundation uncovered on the beach a mile or so to the south.  I only saw it once when the beach was eroded way back.  It was right up near the water line and at times actually covered by the water.  It was near the end of the access road just south of the condos just north of John Brooks beach. I thought there was a World War II watchtower near the same location but much closer to A1A.  There was a lot of junk there, including iron and other things that could have been remains of the watchtower.  I forget how I found out that is where the watchtower once stood, but the foundation slab I am saw was out at the waters edge instead of being back behind the beach.  I don't know what kind of building or construction the slab came from.

I found a WWII watchtower on an old U.S. Geological Survey map.  It was located to the south of Frederick Douglass but north of the next beach access.  I visited teh site and located the remains of that one, which back then, was in the Australian pines just behind the beach.  I'm sure about that one, and don't know why there would be two so close together although there were once more than 15 thousand  of them around the United States.  Many counties had more than one.

I don't know what building the foundation up near the jetty was.  It could have been associated with World War II activities, but I don't know that, and now I'm not so sure now about the one to the north of John Brooks beach.  I don't know now how I originally learned about it.

Preserved World War II Coastal Watchtower at

In any case, World War II America is fascinating history.  Everybody pitched in.  They had fund raising drives, and communities actually funded, built and volunteers manned the watchtowers and watched for enemy aircraft or ships.

Here is one link to a little bit about that interesting part of our local history.

World War Two Watchtower Ormond Beach

It amazes me how little people know about such recent history of the land they walk on.  Landmarks quickly disappear and people quickly forget and young people generally aren't interested.

If you can shed any light on the newly exposed building foundation, let me know.

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Wabasso Beach Cam Thursday Morning.

SurfGuru.com Surf Chart for Fort Pierce Inlet Area.

Not much change this week.

Good hunting,

Treasureguide@comcast.net

3/4/26 Report - A Nice Rainy Day for Beach Metal Detecting: Finds, Observations and Impressions.

 Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.

Tuesday's Metal Detecting Finds.

In Tuesday's post I pointed out that there was some beach erosion, and I showed a beach cam view of a cut south of the Fort Pierce inlet.

I always liked rainy days.  One of the reasons is that I've had way too much sun over the years for my skin type and try to limit my sun exposure.

First, I stopped at John Brooks beach.  Here is what that looked like.

John Brooks Tuesday Around Noon.

John Brooks looked very much like the last time I was there several days ago except the scallops were even smaller.  

John Brooks Around Noon Tuesday.

I did a quick scan at Brooks, but it didn't seem very promising.  I wasn't going to spend a lot of time at the beach, so I moved north a ways.

A fellow that has been a regular at that beach was hard at work and I could tell by his tracks had already spent some good time there.  I went the other direction.  

One of my early finds there was what I'm pretty sure is a silver dime although I couldn't see the coin at all because of a heavy black crust.  It is being cleaned now.  The crust is really solid, and it looks like I might have to resort to electrolysis again.  After an hour or so, very little progress was made by the vinegar.  Still, I'm only guessing that it is a dime.

There were a good number of coins.  I felt like there was a lot more there, but I only stayed around an hour or probably a bit less.   

It was interesting detecting.  All the coins were well seasoned and there were some odd little bits of metal that I'll have to clean and give another look.  I think the silver dime is probably the oldest of the day.  The dime was encouraging and I hoped to find some more older stuff and maybe something much older.

I found two rings.  One is junk and the other marked 14K.  

Found Ring Marked 14 Kt.

In the find photo at the top of this post, the gold ring doesn't show up well against the coins, but it is there.  

By the way, the 1.9 gram gold ring only showed a 13 on the detector's conductivity scale, so beware of smaller items like that.  They can give some low conductivity numbers.

Overall, the hunt left me with two major impressions.  One is that there was a lot of good targets and some interesting detecting out there on the beach, and I could have, and perhaps should have, spent a lot more time before quitting.  The other fellow had already spent some good time detecting before I arrived and was still hard at work when I left.

My other big impression was about the Manticore.  I was impressed once again.  The Manticore has impressed me more than any metal detector I've tried in the last thirty or more years and is close to becoming my new all-time favorite.  I almost hate to say this because I don't want to sound like I'm doing an ad or anything like that, but that detector keeps impressing me.  It was detecting small bits, and detecting deep items and it provided good target information, and all that with just the general beach settings.  I'm not saying that there aren't better detectors out there because I haven't tried many of them, but this detector has impressed me.   I'd guess I've used it on the beach maybe ten or twelve times and haven't spent a huge amount of time with it, and I've not spent a lot of time optimizing settings or anything.  It has been both easy and effective.

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I've talked before about the target information it provides (the target ID map is nice), but the information is only as good as how you use it.  You can have good information, but you still have to make good decisions based upon that information.  The small ring is a good example.  People who only dig strong coin signals could have easily passed up a target giving such a low conductivity number.  Discrimination is risky business.  And you never find out what you passed up.  That is why I recommend at least occasionally digging a wider range of signals.  A 13 can be a lot of things.  And some of them - like the ring - are good.  It did show as a solid disc shaped object on the middle line of the target ID map, so I figured it was not iron, but it could have been a piece of foil or a small slice of copper, or something like that.  Even with all the information provided by the detector, there is still a range of uncertainty and the possibility of making a wrong decision both type 1 and type 2 errors.  No matter what the detector does for you, your decision making still plays a major role.  I also found a greater than normal number of nickels, which is often an indication of other detectorists discriminating.  There is a good chance the other fellow had been over the area where the ring was found and either missed it or passed it up.  There were no coins around it, and it was very near where you walk onto the beach.

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I noticed that some how I ended up with two 3/3/26 posts.  It looks like I did two posts yesterday or something.  I don't know how that happened, but if you saw one of them, I just wanted you to know there are two.

I hope to get the dime or whatever it is cleaned enough to see what it actually is.  I'll post it when I can tell.  If I have to resort to electrolysis, it might take a while.  I still haven't finished one object I started to do electrolysis on back a couple months ago.  Got interrupted and never got back to it yet.

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A Mexican cartel boss was buried in a gold coffin.

Mexican cartel boss buried in gold coffin

Hmmmm.  

I guess the ancient practice of burying high status people with their gold is still around.  It would seem they'd have to guard against grave looting.

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Surf Chart from SurfGuru.com.

Good hunting,

Treasureguide@comcast.net

3/3/2026 Report - Heart Shaped Cobs: Best Research. Gold Shipments Stalled. Tips for Beach Selection. Some Erosion.

 

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.

A Little of the 22Kt. Gold for Sale in the Gold Souk of Dubai.

Gold shipments through Dubai are set to stall for several days after airlines suspended flights amid U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran and Tehran’s response, according to three industry sources and Reuters.

Because gold is typically transported by air for security and insurance reasons, the cancellations are expected to sharply limit physical flows.

Reuters writes that Dubai is a key supplier to Switzerland, Hong Kong and India. Sources said the broader impact on global supply will depend on how long the disruption lasts. They spoke on condition of anonymity.

Gold futures jumped 3% on Monday morning prior to the cash open in New York. The record high stands at $5,594.82, set on January 29.

Here is the link for more about that.

Gold Shipments Through Dubai Stall After Strikes on Iran | Gulf Insider

That is some real bling.

I've posted before a little about the cultural aspects of gold, which for the detectorist hunting gold jewelry, is very useful information.

Here is how I summarized that.

Fact 1. Some cultures and groups wear more gold than others. That is obvious, but take advantage of that knowledge and hunt beaches where the people who wear more gold gather.

Fact 2. Wealthier and flashier people tend to wear better jewelry than poorer and less ostentatious people. That is not always true because some wealthy people do not wear much good gold while there are some poorer groups that do wear good gold. If you watch a TV show about India for example, you will see some very poor people wearing a lot of high-karat gold.

Given the choice between hunting a beach with a lot of low-quality jewelry versus one with higher quality jewelry, I would often take the beach with the higher quality stuff even if the finds are less frequent. Some beaches have a lot of gold but some of those beaches will have predominantly lower-quality 10K or plated gold or silver rather than 14K or 18k gold, for example. And some cultures still use 20K gold.

Fact 3. Tourists tend to lose more gold than locals. First, tourists often do not want to leave their valuables in the car or hotel and so unlike locals are more likely to wear their good stuff to the beach. Second, tourists often are not aware of how easily gold can be lost in the sand or water.

Fact 4. Young active people usually lose more jewelry than more mature people. It is often the diving, hand-stands, cart-wheels and other youthful carelessness that leads to many of the loses.

Summary Conclusion. Not taking beach or water conditions or other factors into account, you will find more gold where young active wealthy careless people, tourists and people from gold wearing cultures gather, style and frolic. South Florida has beaches where all of those factors come together to create some great hunting.

And here is that link.

The Treasure Beaches Report Direct From Florida's Treasure Coast.: 3/20/11 Report - Selecting a Beach & Nugget Find

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Here is a brief excerpt.

... Many theories have been proposed to explain the origin of these coins. Most experts agree that these heart-shaped Bolivian cobs had a primarily religious purpose. Some specialists argue that the coins were given their curious design after the “Sacred Heart of Jesus,” a religious devotion that spread from France into Spain towards the end of the 17th century, and from there to the New World. The heart alluded to Jesus’ divine love for humanity...

Here is the link for the rest of the article.

Bolivian Heart Cobs - Numismatic News

That article provides numerous pictures of beautiful heart shaped cobs.

Ten years ago I posted in the TreasureBeachesReport.blogspot.com what I consider to be some of the best and most detailed research on the subject conducted by researcher and author, Laura Strolia.  Here is a little of what she said.

In regards to the later produced heart cobs (1690-1750), I believe there is an angle to this mystery that has been overlooked.

Timothy Terrance O’Donnell wrote in his book, Heart of the Redeemer, pp. 147-148, “Between 1690 and 1740 (the nadir of the “new” devotion) Rome showed her warm approval by granting briefs which established over 700 Sacred Heart confraternities. The Jesuits, inspired by Fr. Galliffet’s zeal and passionate love for the Heart of Jesus, took the lead in promoting these confraternities.”

The Jesuits happened to be all over the world and the Spanish King was a consistent supporter of religious confraternities.  It was customary for members to wear special accessories, such as a certain badge or belt. Wearing a heart cob would have been a way to show which confraternity one belonged to, and at the same time, he would have been promoting this symbol of devotion.

Here is the link for the rest of that post.

The Treasure Beaches Report Direct From Florida's Treasure Coast.: 11/9/15 Report - Dug Silver Christ Figure. Sacred Heart Confraternities In Colonial Potosi.

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You can find some erosion today, as shown in the clip below.

Tuesday Morning Clip from the Fort Pierce South Jetty Beach Web Cam
(South Beach Zoom View).

The surf chart isn't exciting, but as shown above, there is some erosion out there.

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Coincidence or Plan?

Purim 2026 began at sundown on Monday, March 2, 2026 and concludes at nightfall on Tuesday, March 3, 2026.   

Time to read the book of Esther.  

The Book of Esther tells a story of the deliverance of the Jewish people. We are shown a Persian emperor, Ahasuerus (loosely based on Xerxes, 485–464 B.C.), who makes momentous decisions for trivial reasons, and his wicked minister, Haman, who takes advantage of the king’s compliance to pursue a personal vendetta against the Jews by having a royal decree issued ordering their destruction. The threat is averted by two Jews, Esther and Mordecai. Their influence and intervention allow the Jews to turn the tables on their enemies and rout their attackers. This deliverance is commemorated by the inauguration of the Jewish festival of Purim on the fourteenth and fifteenth of Adar (mid-February through mid-March).

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Good hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net

3/2/26 Report - Total Lunar Eclipse Tonight. Strikethrough Error Coins: How To Find Them in Your Coin Finds.

 

Written by the Treasureguide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.

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I recommend checking you coin finds, even the modern clad.  They can be worth a lot if there are good mint errors.   

One type of error to look for are strikethroughs.  I've found a few of those in my own coins.  They are the best or the most valuable, but I find them interesting.

Here is an excerpt from a great web site on strike-though errors.  The site explains strike-through errors.  And it also tells very clearly what you need to know in order to evaluate any errors you find and if they are significant enough to have graded.  Overall, its a great web site about strikethrough error coins.

Here is a brief excerpt.

Strike through errors occur when foreign material gets caught between the coin die and planchet during striking, creating unique and often valuable mint errors. However, not every strike through error justifies the $30-150+ cost of professional grading. Understanding which strike through errors command collector premiums and which ones are too minor to grade profitably separates smart error coin collectors from those wasting grading fees on common manufacturing defects.

Before submitting any error coin for professional certification, using AI pre-assessment helps verify the coin's base grade and condition, ensuring the strike through error is dramatic enough to justify grading costs and deliver positive return on investment.

What Are Strike Through Errors?

Strike through errors happen when the coin die strikes through an object positioned between the die and planchet. This foreign material prevents the die's design from fully transferring to the coin, leaving distinctive marks, depressions, or missing design elements....

And here is the link if you want to learn more.

Strike Through Errors on Coins: Should You Submit for Grading? 2025 Guide | CoinGrader AI

Here is probably the best strike-through error I've found.

This is not post-mint damage.  With careful examination under magnification you can tell the difference.

Here is another that will help me explain.

This one is not so obvious, and to the naked eye it looks like a scratch on the coin.

It is not a die crack either.  

If it was a post mint scratch, you would see metal flow and a rim along the edge of the indentation.  The indentation was pressed into the coin because something, maybe a wire, was on the planchet when the die hit it.

I enjoy looking for error coins although it is tedious and it might take a good while to finally find one.  If you read the coin community forum, you'll see that people often think they have a mint error when they actually have a coin with post-mint damage. I'm not very good at it, but you can submit your pictures to the coin community forum and get the verdict from the experts.  That is how I've learned what I know about it.

Collecting for error and variety coins will open up a whole new dimension to your metal detecting and coin shooting.  It takes time to learn to identify true error coins.  It isn't easy and takes a while.  Give it a try.

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Surf Chart from Surfguru.com.

Nothing exciting in the chart.

We are getting some nice negative low tides in the afternoon.

Good hunting,

Treasureguide@comcast.net

3/1/26 Report - Emergency Sand Washing Out and Reader Comments. Target ID. Discrimination and Signal Finds.

 

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.

Fort Pierce South Jetty Emergency Renourishment Project Sand

Photos by Joe D.

Joe D. sent me these photos and the following email.

Here's a couple pics i got a few days ago of the recent sand dump! Pretty much disappearing as fast as they drop it in there!

   I think it pretty telling that this inlet (design?) or it's general orientation looses so much more sand on it's south side than almost every other inlet on Florida's East coast! Maybe they should solve that problem first!

    Also went by Walton Rocks for a quick detect, and found it had filled in quite a bit from last week! I didn't stay long, but went to a few other spots for a few bucks of clad and a stainless steel?? ring that rang up a solid 9 on the Manticore!

Joe D.🍀👍👍

Thanks for the pictures and report Joe.

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I recently showed a steel cent that I cleaned.  I was wondering how it would show on the Manticore ID map.  You'd expect it to show up as iron, and, of course, it did, but while I was doing the test I decided to test a few more targets.  Here are the targets I tested this morning.

Top Row Left to Right: Memorial cent, steel cent, mounted wheat cent.
Second Row: 1/20 12KT Cross and Small Cluster of Keys.

I've always recommended digging everything.  There are however, as I've said in the past, times when discrimination is justified.  Some people discriminate more than others.  There are many factors to be considered, but some of it is a matter of individual differences.  Some people hate digging junk and others hate missing any good target.  There are trade-offs.  There are two kinds of risk.  One is digging junk and the other is not digging good targets.  Again, there are tradeoffs and a variety of factors to consider.

The Manticore ID map is a definite advance in target ID.  Target ID is still a difficult matter.  A number of factors can affect the readouts and displays, and a variety of targets can look very much the same on the screens.  Target ID is still not the same as putting your hands and eyes on a dug target, which, by the way, can still at times leave you with uncertainty about what the target is.  

All the complications aside, I decided to test the above targets today.  Below is what I found.

First the memorial cent that I included primarily as a comparison for the steel cent.  

 Manticore Readout for Memorial Cent.

Nothing surprising very surprising about that.  Disc shape object on the center line fairly high on the conductivity scale.

Now the 1943 steel cent.

Manticore Readout for Steel Cent.

Besides the low conductivity number, notice the image on the top line produced by the steel cent.   It is very different from the copper cent, as you would expect. 

Would you pass it up as a piece of junk?  Would you want to pass it up if you knew what it is?  There are iron targets that I'd like to dig.  An iron spike, for example, might be nice to have, but it can also tell you something important, like possibly the presence of other shipwreck items.  

I've talked about what I call "signal finds" in the past.  Those are finds that can provide important information.  Here is a link for more about signal finds.  The Treasure Beaches Report Direct From Florida's Treasure Coast.: 5/24/11 Report - Atlantic Storm, OMEX, Modern Jewelry & Signal Finds

I also had a wheat cent that was in a thin mount to be used as a pendant.  I wondered if or how the additional mounting might affect the display.  

Here is how it showed.

Manticore Readout for Mounted Wheat Cent.

The mounted cent produced a higher conductivity number than the memorial cent.  I assume that was due to the additional metal surrounding the coin.  

I was also interested if the little extension for the hole would show up on the display. I would say no to that. I wouldn't read that as anything other than a round object even though the image is a little oblong.

I also tested the cross and cluster of keys.  Here is display produced by the gold-filled cross.

Manticore Display for Gold Filled Cross.

The image is on the center line but is more spread out than a typical coin would show.

Below is the display produced by the cluster of keys.  

Manticore Display for Key Cluster.

I always recommend doing a lot of testing and experimentation with your metal detector.  You will learn a lot that way but be aware of the limitations.  There will be a fair amount of variance in the readouts.  You can't expect a precise number every time for any particular object.  There are a lot of things that can affect the readout. I could go on forever from here but need to bring this discussion to a close or now.

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Surf Chart from SurfGuru.com.

Not much there, but there will be at least one day of bigger surf.

Good hunting,

Treasureguide@comcast.net

2/28/26 Report - Surf to Increase in Near Future. Wreck of San Jose and Laws of Ownership. Remote Viewing, Consciouness and Creative Problem Solving.

 

Saturday Morning Fort Pierce Jetty South Beach Zoom View

It is a still hazy Saturday morning.  The weather is warm.  The wind out of the west and the surf is smooth.

You can see the beach above. No signs of any cuts remain visible.

Fort Pierce Jetty Area Surf Chart from SurfGuru.com.

So it looks like the surf will be building over the next few days up to four or five feet, which is still not a lot.

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I found an article in the Drexel Law Review on the extremely rich wreck of the San Jose. The article discusses a set of factors for determining the owner or international shipwrecks.  Below is one brief excerpt from the article.

The sea is one of the greatest museums known to humankind. Access to that museum, however, is limited. Modern technology is changing that, making thousands of wrecks and their cargo more accessible than ever. This in turn has led to the proliferation of disputes concerning the ownership of the wrecks and their cargo. In an attempt to resolve these disputes, the United Nations enacted UNCLOS. But after continued legal battles and international discord, UNCLOS has proven unsuccessful. The best way to preserve sunken wrecks, protect states’ rights, and incentivize research and marine salvage is for the United Nations to amend UNCLOS to include a committee specially designated to solve any wreck ownership disputes. The committee should balance each claim based on a six-factor balancing test...

And here is the link for more about that.

Lang 383420.ashx

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I also found a collection of 62 publications, spanning nearly three decades of groundbreaking research on subjects including remote viewing, precognitive perception and consciousness. My posts on remote viewing have been popular beyond my expectations.  I presume these articles will be of similar interest. 

i hope that those of you who are interested in remote viewing are at least experimenting with putting it to practical use.  Give it a try.  Study the methods and precedures, and let me know how it works out for you.  

Below are some of the references and links.

General Overviews

1. The Persistent Paradox of Psychic Phenomena: An Engineering Perspective (1982). Proceedings IEEE, 70, No.2, pp.136-170.
2. Engineering Anomalies Research (1987). J. Scientific Exploration, 1, No.1, pp.21- 50.
3. The Complementarity of Consciousness (1991). Tech. Report 91006, December 1991 (13 pages). [Published in modified form in K.R. Rao, ed., Cultivating Consciousness for Enhancing Human Potential, Wellness, and Healing. (Westport, CT and London: Praeger, 1993) pp. 111-121.]
4. Consciousness and Anomalous Physical Phenomena (1995). PEAR Technical Note 95004, May 1995 (32 pages).
5. The PEAR Proposition (2005). J. Scientific Exploration, 19, No.2, pp.195-246.
6. Endophysical Models Based on Empirical Data (2005). R. Buccheri, A. Elitzur, M. Saniga, eds., Endophysics, Time, Quantum and the Subjective: Proceedings of the ZiF Interdisciplinary Research Workshop, Bielefeld, Germany, 17-22 January 2005. (Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2005) pp.81-102.
7. Consciousness, Information, and Living Systems (2005). Cellular & Molecular Biology, 51, pp.703-714.

Remote Perception

24. Precognitive Remote Viewing in the Chicago Area: A Replication of the Stanford Experiment (1979). J. Parapsychology, 43, pp.17-30.
25. Precognitive Remote Perception (1983). Tech. Report 83003, August 1983 (81 pages).
26. Precognitive Remote Perception, III: Complete Binary Database with Analytical Refinements (1989). Tech. Report 89002, August 1989 (102 pages).
27. Response to Hansen, Utts, and Markwick: Statistical and Methodological Problems of the PEAR Remote Viewing (sic) Experiments (1992). J. Parapsychology, 56, No.2, pp.115-146.
28. Precognitive Remote Perception: Replication of Remote Viewing (1996). J. Scientific Exploration, 10, No.1, pp.109-110.
29. Information and Uncertainty in Remote Perception Research (2003). Journal of Scientific Exploration, 17, No.2, pp.207-241.*

Philosophical Perspectives and Cross-Disciplinary Considerations

49. Anomalies: Analysis and Aesthetics (1989). J. Scientific Exploration, 3, No.1, pp.15-26, 1989.
50. Acoustical Resonances of Assorted Ancient Structures (1995). PEAR Tech Report #95002, ICRL Tech Report #95.1, March 1995.  (Also published as "Acoustical Resonances of Assorted Ancient Structures."  J. Acoustical Society of America, 99, No. 2, pp. 649-658, 1996, and as "Preliminary Investigations and Cognitive Considerations of the Acoustical Resonances of Selected Archaeological Sites," Antiquity, 70, No. 268, pp. 665-666, 1996.)
51. Information, Consciousness, and Health (1996). Alternative Therapies, 2, No. 3, pp. 32-38.
52. Toward a Philosophy of Science in Women's Health Research (1996). J. Scientific Exploration, 10, No. 4, pp. 535-545.
53. The Subterranean Chamber of the Pyramid of Khufu: A Ritual Map of Ancient Egypt? (1997. Tech. Note 98001, February 1997 (20 pages).
54. Wishing for Good Weather: A Natural Experiment in Group Consciousness (1997). J. Scientific Exploration, 11, No. 1, pp. 47-58.*
55. Subjectivity and Intuition in the Scientific Method (1997). (Reprint from Intuition: The Inside Story, R. Davis-Floyd and P. Sven Arvidson, eds., New York and London: Routledge, 1997, pp. 121-128).
56. Science of the Subjective (1997). J. Scientific Exploration, 11, No. 2, pp. 201-224.*
57. The Physical Basis of Intentional Healing Systems (1999). Tech. Note 99001, January 1999 (28 pages).
58. Deviations from Physical Randomness Due to Human Agent Intention? (1999). Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 10, No. 6, pp. 935-952.
59. The Case for Inertia as a Vacuum Effect: A Reply to Woodward and Mahood (2000). Foundations of Physics, 30, No. 1,pp. 59-80.
60. Inertial Mass and the Quantum Vacuum Fields (2001). Ann. Physics, 10, 5, pp.393-414.
61. 20th and 21st Century Science: Reflections and Projections (2001). J. Scientific Exploration, 15, No. 1, pp. 21-31.
62. The Challenge of Consciousness (2001). J. Scientific Exploration, 15, No. 4, pp. 443-457.

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Some of my favorite topics include epistemology and consciousness.  I assume they are not the primary interest for most of my blog readers, so I don't spend much time on those subjects in my posts, but I also know that some people are interested and have said so.  

It is interesting to look at metal detecting as being an extension of the regular senses.  We use a metal detector to add to or extend our five or so senses, so we receive information about subsurface anomalies or variations in the magnetic fields.  The detector senses those variations and translates those having certain characteristics into the signals and displays we use to make dig decisions.

Just for the fun of it, imagine that detectors, or arrays of sensors of various kinds were sent out on remote vehicles (perhaps as robots) that are able to send the input back to us so that we can experience those remote locations as if we were there.  I know this is getting science fictionish, but I like to break out of the proverbial box every once in a while.  It facilitates creative problem solving. 

Remote viewing suggests a different world view, epistemology and an alternate mode or media of experience.

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