7/6/23 Report - Nice Recent Find: Old Military Button. Millions of Dollars in Change Thrown Out. Vacation Treasure Hunting.

 

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19th Century Artillery Ring Find by Al C.

Al C. sent the following emal and the two button photos.

Hello and I hope all is well! I’ve been hitting some vacant lots within a half mile or so of the Fort Park every once in awhile for years. Super junky and aside from a few wheat Pennie’s I never really found much. A few weeks back I found a harmonica reed and a musket ball that looked pretty old. Today I found this button right in the same little area. Some guys familiar with buttons dated late 1830’s to 1850 or so. The fort was active from 1838 to 1842 as I understand it. If you look hard you can see the A for artillery on the shield. Pretty cool. There’s always something to find!

Backmark on 18th Century Button Find.
Found by Al C.

Great find Al.  Congrats!  And thanks for sharing.

While we are definitely in summer beach conditions on the Treasure Coast, as I often say, there is always someplace ot hunt and something to find.  Al's find shows what you can do.

When beach conditions are poor, it can be an excellent time to hunt jewelry in the shallow water where people are seeking relief from the heat.  But that isn't all.  You can hunt inland sites.  And there are many tantalizing inland sites to metal detect.  All you need to do is ask permission and get access. 

There is always a way.  Creativity can open a lot of doors.  And there is a lot out there to be found.

Americans throw away $62 million in change each years.

That’s an estimate from recycling and waste management company Covanta Holding Corp. (CVA), ...

“We find a whole range of coins from the penny, to dollar and half-dollar coins,” Covanta spokesman James Regan said in an email. He added that the company bases its $62 million estimate on finding 25 cents in each ton of waste, with about 250 million tons of garbage sent to the landfill each year.

Covanta’s business sorts out metals from trash, with everything from coins to iron extracted from its recovery efforts at 45 waste-to-power plants across the world, relying on powerful magnets and other equipment to pull metals out of the garbage...

Here is the link for more about that.

Americans throw away $62 million in coins each year - CBS News

People intentionally throw away millions of dollars in change too.  Did you ever look at any of the ponds, lakes or puddles at DisneyWorld.  Coins line the bottom of every wet area from Lake Buena Vista to the little streams that run through the outdoor model train display in EPCOT.  

For Thanksgiving, Walt Disney World gave the $20,000 to the Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida. Disney World regularly removes all the coins from the various waterways. They are cleaned and sorted and the money is then donated to a local charity...

See What Happens To The Money Disney World Parkgoers Toss Into Wishing Wells? Turns Out, Something Nice | Cinemablend

I once was able to metal detect a swiming beach at Camp Wilderness.  It is no longer a swimming beach and is overgrown, but I'll guarantee there are things still there to be found.  And what if you could dredge the area around the steamboat dock from the parking area.  Who knows how much could be dredged up.

It wasn't long ago that the Liberty Belle steamboat basin at Disneyworld was drained.  I took a picture of the drained basin, but don't remember if I posted it.  I drooled thinking of what might have been found in that drained basin. 

The above photo still shows some water remaining.  It was dryer.  Besides the coins tossed intentionally, I'm sure things fell off tourists hanging over the rails

Many people take summer trips.  No matter where you go you will see places to search.  If you visit an old castle or a visitor center in the United States, you might think about where things can be found.  When I visited Yosemite and saw the spaces between the boards at the visitor center, I wished I could get underneath the porch.  Inside the park, archaeologists were doing a dig of an indigenous site, and just outside the park I noticed a fellow dredging in the creek.  My wife got a case of poison oak when I pulled over and climbed through the weeds to investigate a stream.

I can hardly go anywhere without imagining what is probably there to be found and at least thinking about how I could possibly get to it.

If you think about it, some of our best hunting, other than the shipwrecks, is created by tourists visiting beaches and resorts.

The thing that amazes me is how much there is to be found.  Some places have old treasures and look like no one has ever been there, and other places are crowded busy areas.  They all offer something.

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The tropics are continuing to remain quiet, with forecasters keeping an eye on three tropical waves, according to the latest advisory from the National Hurricane Center.

But don't expect that to last.

Forecasters are worried.

Abnormally high water temperatures are occurring in the Atlantic, and tropical cyclones love warm water.

And while El Niño may help discourage tropical development, it may not be enough.

Here is that link.

NHC tracking 3 tropical waves. Will Florida see July hurricane? (jacksonville.com)

Good hunting,

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