11/27/24 Report - 1715 Fleet Missing Gold Coins Recovered. A Few Modest Finds From the Treasure Coast. Calm Seas.

 

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

 Part of a trove of gold coins stolen from a fleet of Spanish shipwrecks off the Florida coast has been recovered, and one of the family members who originally recovered the treasure is facing charges.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission announced Tuesday it had recovered 37 gold coins from the 1715 fleet, valued at over $1 million.

Investigators say the coins were part of a trove of 101 coins discovered in 2015... However, only 51 coins were correctly reported, while another 50 were not disclosed...

Here is the link for more of the article.

Florida recovers $1M in gold coins stolen from 1715 Spanish shipwreck

Thanks to DJ for that link.

Hopefully you didn't buy any of those coins at auction.

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Miscellaneous Finds From a Tuesday Walk.

I took a walk the Tuesday.  It was the first bottle hunt I've been on since I impaled my foot on a nail back in August.  

The water was high, but visibility was very good.  Nice day to get out for a little hunt.

The shovel was in the water. Nice little shovel that will come in handy.

Above the shovel is a gator scute.

 

Below the shovel is two capudine bottles.  I've found older and nicer capudine bottles before, such as the Hick's capudine  one I posted on my bottle barn site.  See TreasureGuide's Bottle Barn: Brown Hicks' Capudine Bottle.

There is another small square bottle, which I would guess once held perfume.

I found no exciting bottles.  I did find an older embossed Listerine bottle.

Cork Top Embossed Listerine Bottle

I've found a good number of embossed Listerine bottles before.  This one is pretty clean.  Just some scuffs.  The bottom of the front is embossed LAMBERT PHARMACAL COMPANY.  

After looking at a lot of Listerine bottles, this is the first time I noticed that the word PHARMACAL.  I checked a couple other Listerine bottles and they say the same thing. I always thought it said Pharmaceutical, but it doesn't.

 Named after Joseph Lister, who pioneered antiseptic surgery at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary in Scotland, Listerine was developed in 1879 by Joseph Lawrence, a chemist in St. Louis, Missouri (Wikipedia).

It is now marketed by Johnson and Johnson.

I also picked up some copper.  You can see the copper tubing.  Scrap copper is now selling for around $1.85 per pound.

No exciting finds today but it was nice to get back on the hunt on a beautiful day.  And most importantly I didn't get a nail in the foot.  My new boots weren't comfortable and quit before I would have otherwise.

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Source: Surfguru.com.

As you can see, the surf is very small.  That could make for good visibility and easy shallow water hunting in those areas where you can do that.

Good hunting,

TreasureGuide@comcast.net