Written by the Treasureguide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.
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| Source: MagicSeaWeed.com. |
This is today's big news for me. It looks like a 5 - 8 foot surf peaking on Friday.
Unfortunately there are almost no north winds at any point this week. The winds will be -mostly west winds, which will be holding the waves up. Like I said before - maybe good surfing.
The high tides are pretty high now. If we can actually get an eight foot surf, or something close to it, combined with high tides, it could get some good hunting, especially at those locations that tend to erode with southeast winds. There is at least one spot that did not recover totally from the high tides we had last winter.
So what I'll be hoping for is a peak surf combined with high tides that actually hit the dunes, and I'll be watching a few other locations that are more vulnerable to southeast swells.
Below is the current cone for Hurricane Larry.
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| Source: nhc.noaa.gov. |
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JamminJack sent me the following note on a recent auction that saw record breaking prices on some great US coins.
Russell was the top bidder for the top trhree most valuable coins sold in conjunction with the American Numismatic Association’s (ANA) 2021 World’s Fair of Money by Stack’s Bowers Galleries on August 17 in Costa Mesa, California, and Heritage Auctions on August 18 in Dallas, Texas. They are:
- 1804 Class I Original Draped Bust dollar, PCGS Proof-68, from Stack’s Bowers, the finest known of its kind. It was presented as a diplomatic gift on behalf of President Andrew Jackson to the Sultan of Muscat in 1835 and most recently was in the Pogue family collection. Winning bid: $7,680,000, making it the fifth most valuable U.S. coin ever sold.
- 1861 Paquet Reverse Double Eagle, PCGS MS-67 with CAC approval, from Heritage, the finer of only two known examples and formerly in the collections of Virgil Brand, King Farouk of Egypt, and Ambassador & Mrs. R. Henry Norweb, among others. Winning bid: $7,200,000 is the sixth highest price ever for a U.S. coin.
- 1794 Flowing Hair dollar, PCGS MS-66+ with CAC approval, also sold by Heritage and previously in the collections of Lord St. Oswald, Jimmy Hayes, D. Brent Pogue, and Bob R. Simpson, among others. Winning bid: $6,600,000 is the highest price ever paid at auction for a Mint State 1794 dollar.
Thanks Jack.
You can follow up on that with the following link.
U.S. Coins Top $31M in SBG's August 2021 ANA Auction | CoinNews
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I haven't been out to mudlark lately, but about a week or so ago picked up a pair of jaws. I thought they were from the same animal at first, but closer examination of the teeth showed them to clearly be different.
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| Jaw Bones. |
Happy hunting,
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