4/22/21 Report - Ring Found and Returned. Mourning Ring Found. Charles and Joanna Mexico Treasure Coins.

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Ring Returned After 20 Years.
Source: Jacksonville.com link below.

From an ocean floor to its original owner: This ring's 20-year journey was 'a message from God'

About 20 years ago, an American missionary in Honduras was snorkeling off the Caribbean island of Roatán about 40 miles off the mainland. He spotted something glittering on the sea floor and swam down to investigate ...

She knew she couldn't sell it, at least not without first looking for Cenac. “I’m a believer, so I just felt the Lord urging me to find the rightful owner, that there may be a story behind it,” she said in a telephone interview last week.

She turned to Facebook, but it took her some time and effort to find Cenac. His account, he said, had been eliminated by the company in the runup to the election as it cracked down on any sites it thought might be fake.

He had only just managed to get a new account reactivated when Estrada's message came through...

Here is the link for the rest of the story.

Lost ring, found in the Caribbean, back in Jacksonville 20 years later

Thanks to William P. for that lead.

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A 17th century gold and crystal mourning ring was found by a detectorist.

• The crystal ring was probably made to honor James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby
•  Stanley's family ruled the Isle of Man for centuries, starting in the 1400s
• In the 1600s, mourning rings were given out as mementos when someone died
• The ring has a gold band and the initials 'JD' on it
• Stanley, who signed his letters 'J. Derby,' was a supporter of King Charles I 
• He was beheaded by Cromwell's forces after Charles' defeat in the Civil War 

Here is the link for more of that story.

Gold ring found on Isle of Man was likely made to honor earl executed for treason in 1651 | Daily Mail Online

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In 2020 beach detectorists found a few Charles and Joanna period coins on the Treasure Coast.  They are much older than most of those from the 1715 Fleet.  

See The Treasure Beaches Report Direct From Florida's Treasure Coast.: 4/26/20 Report - Carlos and Joanna Reales. Beach Openings Next Week. Paleovirology. Statistics.

And Treasure Beaches Report Part 2. 2020 and Beyond: 10/25/20 Report - One 16th Century Two-Reale Found Wednesday Examined. Decreasing Surf. (tbr2020.blogspot.com)

Below are a couple Charles and Joanna era coins being offered in the current Sedwick aution.  They are not from the Treasure Coast and are four reales.  The Charles and Joanna coins found last year on the Treasure Coast were two reales.  I know that a couple were.  I wouldn't consider these as comparables, but there are some similarities.   Notice the how round they are, which is different from most 1715 Fleet cobs.

Those are from the Golden Fleece wreck, cica 550.

Similar coins were also found on Padre Island.

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We have a nice north wind today, and some cooler air.  The surf is only two or three feet though.

Happy hunting,

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