1/23/21 Report - Some Treasure Coast Finds. Reflecting On The Beaches Over A Few Decades.

 

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

New Find by Nick A.

Nick A. has been making some finds.  Above is one of his finds.  He says that is the second fake reale he has found.

But he also made some genuine finds, including the nice 1929 wheat penny shown below.  

1929 Wheat Penny Found by Nick A.

He found other wheats as well, and an interesting foreign coin.

Thanks for sharing Nick.  It is always nice to find stuff with some age to it.

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Another Recent Find.

This isn't what it appears from the above photo.  Here is another view of the same item.

Same Ring Shown Above
But Showing Grooves Inside the Ring.

Although it looks something like a finger ring, and even fits nicely, the grooves around the entire inner surface suggest to  me that it probably has some more utilitarian purpose.

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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, I reflected on treasures I pursued so dearly. 

Sorry for abusing that Poe-etry.

Last night I was thinking about various Treasure Coast beaches and how treasure was or wasn't discovered over a period of three or four decades.  Some beaches produced on a relatively steady basis over that period of time. Some produced rarely, and others very rarely.  Some produced one type of treasure, and others produced other types of treasure. Some produced for a period of time and then quit. Some produced a lower quality of treasure, while others produced better things.   Treasure beaches can be very different.  And timing is critical.

One beach (call it A) would usually produce something sort of interesting even if it wasn't anything great.  That beach produced the greatest variety in types of treasure.  It would give up enough to keep teasing you on, but usually withheld the best it had to offer.  It would provide a few modern finds of unexceptional quality, but also occasionally something older and better to let you know there was something better still hiding there.  It was almost always good for a little something.

Then there was beach B.  It produced nice old finds fairly often for a period of a decade or more and then in recent years quit producing much of anything old.  It was for a while one of the top two most reliable beaches for old shipwreck coins.  Not only did it quit giving up old shipwreck treasure in recent years, but it never produced much in the way of modern finds.

Beach C, in contrast, has been producing old shipwreck coins and artifacts rather steadily over the period of thirty or forty years, only interrupted by periods of greater sand accumulation and renourishment projects.

Beach D was once very cut back and good for an occasional shipwreck find, but also some older modern finds and a little modern gold, but in recent years it has been heavily sanded and not much has been found there.

A beach can be very productive for years or even decades and then shut off for a period of years.  Or a particular beach can be productive for only a very short time.

I was thinking of charting out a selection of beaches for comparison, but that would take a lot of time.

To sum it up, every beach is different.  Humorously, it made me think of juvenile courting.   Some beaches will tease you on.  Some are easier than others.  I better stop with that analogy, but I think you get the point.

One beach I'm thinking of had a lot to offer, but only gave it up very very rarely.  It required a whole lot of perseverance.   It would give you a lot of junk too.   I'm sure many people gave up on that beach, as I was tempted at different times to do.

When deciding where to hunt on any particular day, it is natural to select the places that have been good to you lately, but don't forget about those places that haven't produced for a while - maybe not even a long while.  When the conditions are just right, the door can open,

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Jason T. thanked everyone for the help with his mystery item.

Source: MagicSeaWeed.com.

We are still having west winds, a small surf, and flat tides.  It doesn't look like we'll have any significant changes any time soon.  Maybe at the end of next week.  We'll see how that shapes up.

Happy hunting,

TreasureGuide@comcast.net