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Among the latest finds over the summer: 200 silver coins, a flintlock, an unusual tan vase and a mysterious set of bronze keys, according to a news release from 1715 Fleet – Queens Jewels LLC.
Even more startling, Capt. Mike Perna and shipmates Milan Kalelkar and Levin Shavers found “the remains of a wooden box that has been submerged in the ocean for over 300 years.”
The artifacts were recovered along a mile-long “trail of shipwreck scatter” created when as many as a dozen treasure ships spilled their cargo...
Here is the link for more about that.
Coins, flintlock found on 1715 shipwreck, Florida team says | Miami Herald
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A rare cross was discovered by a ten-year-old while exploring on school field trip in Jerusalem.Nehorai Nir was picking edible plants with his class and believed he saw a red pomegranate on the ground.
"I ran to pick it up and discovered a worm inside, so I reluctantly put it down — but on the way back up the hilll I suddenly saw a colorful object shining in the dirt," Nir said..,
Here is that link for more about that.
Rare religious cross discovered by child while exploring on school field trip in Jerusalem
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The first three days of this new year, I showed what some people found in 2024. The record keeping done by those detectorists is commendable. You can learn a lot that will help you by keeping records of your finds. I've mentioned that before and gave some examples from my own records. See, for example, The Treasure Beaches Report Direct From Florida's Treasure Coast.: 5/11/13 Report - Metal Detecting Records & 10 Gold Finds in 1 Day.
Besides what you find, it is helpful to keep records on where things were found so that you can better estimate what a beach might produce.. The longer and more thoroughly you keep records, the better you will be at evaluating different beaches.
You saw a good sample of the types of things that were found in 2024. There were a lot of jewelry items and a couple reales. The jewelry items varied in quality. There were cheaper items, silver items, and gold items. But even the gold varied in quality. If you evaluate different sites for both quantity and quality of finds, you'll notice that some sites produce on average higher quality items. To some extent that is determined by demographics or sociology.
Without good records, you'll develop a feeling about where you can find valuable things and how many but won't be able to be as specific. You can develop a predictive model and make beach decisions based upon the average predicted value of finds.
For some observations on some of the factors that determine where you'll make the most finds, see.The Treasure Beaches Report Direct From Florida's Treasure Coast.: 3/20/11 Report - Selecting a Beach & Nugget Find
I've written before about the math of metal detecting, which depends upon keeping good records and the development of predictive models.
It isn't always the busiest beaches or the beaches that get the most activity that produce the most finds. Busy beaches will tend to produce more finds, but not necessarily of the highest quality. And, as I've said before, one quality item can be worth more than hundreds of lower quality items, but you can determine from experience and your records which areas will predict the highest total value finds. Will a beach that produces lower quality finds be better or a beach that produces fewer but higher value finds? For me, those are interesting questions, but with good records, you can make decisions based upon data.
The sociology or demographics are interesting to me. People who wear more jewelry won't necessarily lose more. If they are older or sedentary, tey won't lose much. If they are playing volleyball, running, jumping and turning cartwheels in the water, they will lose more. But the quality might not be as good - or it might.
If people live in a condo on the beach, they won't lose as much as if they are tourists staying at a hotel. Tourists may not feel as comfortable leaving valuables in a hotel room. Tourists will not be as aware of how easily things can be lost in the sand or water. They might not even think about it.
And there are the cultural issues. Some cultures simply wear more gold, and they might wear a higher quality gold. You won't see too many Canadians wearing 22k gold. In fact, northerners generally wear much less jewelry than others. You won't be wearing big gemstone rings under warm mittens or gloves.
When I metal detected in the lakes of Minnesota, for example, I found a good number of silver religious medallions but big gold rings. You didn't see the people up there wearing a lot of gold like the people in Miami, for example. Maybe they would wear a simple band.
These are the kinds of things I like about metal detecting. Metal detecting can be approached iin scientific or data driven way. I've done a post or two on the math of metal detecting, which focuses on those kinds of issues. Use you experience and records to guide your decisions and evalate the results. Your records will provide the data you need to make those kinds of decisions.
I could go on and on, and I really should go back and put this all in a more clear concise form, but I probably never will.
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| Source: SurfGuru.com. |
We are getting some north winds as a cold front moves in. It is easier to work on a beach when it is not 100 degrees.
The surf will be a little higher, but not huge.
There will be some wind shifts, that you might want to watch.
Good hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net
