9/30/23 Report - Variety of Emeralds Found on Treasure Coast Beaches Over the Years. Gold Coins and Other Items Taken From Lock Boxes.

 

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

Loose emeralds have been found along the Treasure Coast at variety of different beaches.  I thought I'd put some that I've posted in the past together in one new post. 

The lady shown above found a very valuable emerald while looking for seashellls at Golden Sands.  

Below is another and much smaller beach found emerald.  It appears to be both small and poor quality.  It is shown on a penny for size comparison.

The one below was being sold on eBay and was described as having been found on the Treasure Coast.

It looks very translucent.

The next one was found by Joe R. and is shown with a dime.  It is also a smaller example.

The Fisher organization has found a good number of emeralds on the Atocha site, but local salvors have found them too.  The following example was found by Jonah M.

Below is another Treasure Coast beach find.

And here is one shown with copper sheathing and a spike.

And here are two more small and not very translucent examples.

Emeralds have been found on several Treasure Coast beaches, I know of one or more being found as far north as Cocoa and as far south as John Brooks.

One was found while someone was looking for shark's teeth, and another while someone was looking for seashells.  As I often said, keep your eyes open while metal detecting.

Most of these emeralds appear to be small and not of great quality, but some are very valuable.

Other examples have been sold in Sedwick auctions.

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Pearsons teamed up with the Institute for Justice to fight for her property, while Mellein hired an attorney and spent $40,000 to reclaim his items. They both prevailed, but when they went to the agency’s Los Angeles office to claim their property, they realized some of their items were missing. 

Mellein was given the cash from his box, but none of his 110 gold coins.  The FBI seemed to have no record of the missing coins as they weren’t listed on the property receipt of his box’s contents. When pressed for a copy of the video inventory of the box, the FBI said that in its rush to process so much property, it had abandoned its initial plan to film the process, completing inventory paperwork instead, according to the Institute for Justice.

"What we learned was that their incentive to forfeit everything they found crowded out their obligations to safeguard their property," Gay, the Institute for Justice attorney, told Fox News. 

He said the search became "hectic" and "frenzied" as agents rushed to seize what would end up being nearly $86 million worth of assets... 

Here is the link for the rest of the article.

FBI sued after allegedly losing hundreds of thousands in rare coins during raid | Fox News

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Source: nhc.noaa.gov.

Philippe and Fina remain far out in the Atlantic and are predicted to go more north rather than cowards Florida.

Surf Chart for Fort Pierce Inlet Area from SurfGuru.com.

As you can see, the surf is predicted to be up to five or six feet Wednesday.

Today the tides are still big.

There is  link to some great tide charts at the bottom of my reference link list.

Good hunting,

Treasureguide@comcast.net