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| Broken Eight-Reale Found by Mark G. Authenticated by West Bay. |
I posted a broken reale found by Mark G. about a week ago. He got it authenticated by West Bay Trading Company. The certification identifies it as a broken 1600s eight-reale. You might recall it was found in fill material.
Congratulations Mark!
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Here is a new mystery find by John H.
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| Mystery Object Found by John H. |
Inside the center circle it reads as follows.
DO NOT MOVE SCREW
ROTATE PLATE
TO ALTITUDE OF
YOUR LOCALITY.
Around the circle are numbers starting around 10 o'clock with500 and increasing to around 3 o'clock with 3000. Gradations in between the numbers.
John said, "I found this at Bob Graham Beach, just south of Jensen Beach, under a very deep cut. It's not newsworthy but I thought it was interesting. It is 4 inches in diameter and 1.25 thick. My guess is that it is a tool of our sworn enemy "surveyor, beach replenisher" what do you think?"
What do you think it is? Let us know.
If you are a surveyor or know about that type of thing, maybe this object is familiar to you. Or maybe not.
Thanks.
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The 1715 Fleet Society put out a preview of a document on the 2015 Tricentennial gold coin finds.
They give the number of 1715 gold coin finds up to 2015 for seasons in which over 100 gold coins were found.
1,782 1715 Fleet gold coins were found in 1965. That is the biggest number of any salvage year. The second largest number of gold coins was found in 1964. The third biggest year was 1988 when 921 were found. Fourth was 2015, with 447. Fifth was 1987 with 238. Sixth was 1966 with 181. Then the last three years of over one hundred gold coins was 1967 (165), 1989 (151), and 1969 (149).
Interesting.
Douglass Beach provided the most gold coins salvaged over the years with Corrigan's coming in second.
Here is the link.
PREVIEW-Gold-Coins-of-the-Tricentennial-Discovery.pdf
Thanks to DJ for providing that link.
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| Source: Surfguru.com. |
The high tides are still fairly high, but that is about it.
Good hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net