10/9/21 Report - Gold Spanish Coins Found by Divers. Aztec Obsidian Mirror. Home of Cortes. High Tides Now.

 

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

Source: See English.Elpais.com link below.

Every summer, the brothers-in-law Luis Lens and César Gimeno and their respective families spend their vacations in Xàbia, a popular tourist resort on Spain’s Mediterranean coast. The two men spend their days snorkeling and free diving “with technical equipment worth €10, consisting of swimsuit, masks, snorkels and flippers,” jokes Lens. Their only aim is to enjoy the underwater scenery and “clean up the garbage” they find as they do. On August 23, a flash on a rock at a depth of about seven meters in the bay of Portitxol made Lens think he had found “what looked like a 10-cent coin.”

Before returning to the boat, Lens decided to retrieve the coin. “It was in a small hole, like a bottleneck,” he says. When he came aboard, he cleaned it and discovered “an ancient image, like a Greek or Roman face,” and thought it had come off a piece of jewelry. Lens and Gimeno went back down to the site and, “using the corkscrew on a small Swiss Army knife from the boat,” spent two hours unearthing more coins “embedded in a rock crevice.” In all, the space contained a treasure trove consisting of 53 gold coins dating between the 4th and 5th centuries...

Here is that link for more about that.

https://english.elpais.com/usa/2021-09-24/amateur-divers-find-perfectly-preserved-roman-treasure-in-spain.htm

Thanks to SuperRick for that link.

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Source: See CNN link below.

The researchers estimate that Dee's mirror is about 500 years old, most likely made in the final decades before the Spanish conquest of Mexico in 1521, Campbell said.

"We know that Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés sometimes commissioned items from Aztec craftsmen so he could send them back to the Spanish court," Campbell said. "So it is even possible that some of the circular mirrors like John Dee's were specially made by Aztec craftsmen at the time of the conquest of the Aztec Empire to send back to Europe." 

"Novel artifacts brought back to Europe from the Americas entered collections of nobility and of intellectuals, and were used and appropriated in the efforts of people, who -- like John Dee -- saw themselves as scientists, to understand the world in new ways."

Here is the link for more about that fascinating artifact.

Obsidian 'spirit mirror' used by Elizabeth I's adviser has Aztec origins - CNN

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The building used as home by Hernan Cortez has been uncovered.

The remains uncovered from the House of Cortes are modest. However, the researchers note that ‘those pre-Hispanic floors were the same ones that the Spanish invaders and their allies tread upon during their arrival to Tenochtitlan, on November 8, 1519’ according to Cultura. From this building, the conquistadors created the new province of New Spain from which they ruled their empire in central and south America.

The former home of the Aztec emperor was in the possession of the Cortes family until 1566. It was in this year that Cortes’s son was involved in a plot against the government and banished from New Spain. It is expected that new finds relating to this dramatic period in Mexican history will be made at the recently uncovered Aztec palace complex, home to emperors and conquistadors.

Here is the link for much more about that.

Aztec Palace Complex and Later Cortes Home Unearthed in Mexico City | Ancient Origins (ancient-origins.net)

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The big news for me today is the big tides.  We are having some very high tides.

Fort Pierce Tides
Source: MagicSeaWeed.com.

Unfortunately the surf is so exciting.  Nothing higher than two or three feet for the next several days.

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.   1 Corinthians 13:12.

Happy hunting,

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