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| Reale And Musket Balls Found by Terry S. Photo by Terry S. |
It is time for some finds now. The reale and musket balls shown above were recently found by Terry S. I know of a few reales found lately. This one has very nice detail showing. Terry said the reale was found when the musket balls were being found.
He sent me a photo of another find that I'll post tomorrow or some day soon. It goes with some other stuff that I plan on posting soon.
A few days ago I showed you a nice collection of shipwreck spikes found by Al C. He found another, but this one, instead of having the kind of head that we usually see has a round oval-shaped head.
Here is the head of the new spike find. It has a square shank.
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| Square Spike With Rounded Oval Head. Find and photo by Al C. |
Al also found this Masonic badge or pendant.
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| Masonic Find. Photo by Al C. |
Al said, Can you imagine if the found the Masonic piece on Oak Island! It would be a prime time special!
He also found the following interesting piece.
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| Another Find by Al C. |
Below is a silver splash ingot found by Al C. I showed it before when it was still uncleaned.
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| Splash Silver Ingot Found by Al C. Photo by Al C. |
Below are two views of the same ingot. On the left is the marked side, and on the right is the other side.
Al said he could see part of a cross on the ingot.
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| Two Views of Silver Splash Ingot Found Recently by Al C. |
I showed another silver spalsh ingot that was found recently in it's uncleaned state. It still hasn't been cleaned. Maybe I'll show it in stages. B
Below is an image of a similar silver ingot that was sold in ICollector. I'm showing it to show how similar ingots were marked.
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| Silver Splash Ingot Sold on ICollector.com. |
So there were some very nice finds made on the Treasure Coast recently. I wouldn't be surprised if a few more pop up, but the beaches seem to be deteriorating.
Here is what John Brooks looked like this morning.
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| John Brooks Sunday Morning. |
The beach in front of the access was mushy. The cut was still there. One fellow who gridded in front of the cut didn't find anything this morning.
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| John Brooks Sunday Morning. |
The surf will be decreasing tomorrow, but Monday we'll get a little more north direction to the swells, but that won't last long. I'm decreasing my beach conditions rating again.
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| Source: MagicSeaWeed.com. |
Overall it has been a pretty good fall season for metal detecting on the Treasure Coast.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net