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Those are just a few of the highlights from the current Sedwick treasure auction. The auction has a lot of 1715 Fleet coins and other items.
You will find silver and gold bars offered in the first session too. Below is an interesting 1715 Fleet Treasure Coast find in that session. It is lot 69.
Gold disk, 216.4 grams, marked with fineness XIX-dot (19-1/4K), ex-1715 Fleet (Fisher certified). Approx. 2-1/2" in diameter. Outstanding color (nice rich gold), compact in size but notably exactly the weight of eight 8-escudos coins, with bold fineness stamped on its smooth and attractive top, the bottom thoroughly cratered from countless trapped bubbles, one of which (in the center) was so big as to create a crackled hump on the smooth side, prompting it to be certified by the Mel Fisher company (amusingly) as a "sombrero disk," many times rarer than 1622-Fleet ingots and nearly unique as fully Fisher-certified. From the 1715 Fleet, with original Fisher photo-certificate #MF65-007
That is different, and very cool.
I forget how many years ago three raw gold nuggets were found at John Brooks beach on the slope not far from the walkover.
After looking up the original post, it must they must have been found about eight years ago. How time flies.
Take the time to log finds. Write down the date, metal detector you were using, where it was found, the conditions and other details. If you are like me, when some years have passed, you will forget a lot and wish you had the details written down for reference.
I don't know that I've ever seen reports of many, if any, other raw gold nuggets being found on our beaches. Gold dust, and undoubtedly some small nuggets, are found in the water at Rio Mar, but I don't know about nuggets on the beach. That beach, was fun to hunt at one time before a lot of sand was dumped there. When you look back, you wish you had hunted it harder at the time, never guessing that conditions would deteriorate so much and for so long.
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I took the Equinox out one day not long ago and stood under electric power lines to test the noise cancel function. It worked pretty well. I also changed the operating frequencies of the detector. Some frequencies gave more or less depth on the test penny, but not a huge amount. I'll do that again sometime and be more sprecific and precise.
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I expected that little one or two day bump in the predicted surf to disappear, but it hasn't yet. Maybe we'll actually get an short term increase.
Good hunting,
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noise testing.