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A normal workday in a Kentucky cornfield turned into a moment of breathtaking discovery. In the summer of 2023, a local farmer tilling his land stumbled on what would become one of the biggest troves of Civil War gold coins ever found: over 700 coins in all, buried in the soil for more than 160 years.
vThe hoard dates back to the 1860s, the height of the American Civil War. The coins—mostly $1, $10, and $20 Liberty Head gold pieces—carry mint marks from Philadelphia, New Orleans, and San Francisco. Each tells a story of economic anxiety, regional tension, and personal desperation in a nation torn apart by conflict.
Here is the link for more about that hoard.
A cornfield in Kentucky yielded 700 Civil War-era gold coins, one of the largest hoards from the 1860s ever found in America.---
Achaeologists Followed a Sketch by Leonardo da Vinci. It Led to Secret Tunnels Under an Ancient Castle.
... the drawing was of Sforza Castle, and it included depictions of numerous underground tunnels—tunnels that had never been found.
The team—which included experts from Polytechnic University of Milan, Codevintec, and Sforza Castel—teamed up to employ ground-penetrating radar and laser scanning that mapped multiple feet under the castle. In doing so, they discovered not only that the tunnels Leonardo alluded to in his drawings existed, but that they may only be a small piece of an intricate system weaving throughout the site...
Here is the link for more about that.
You never know where you might discover an important clue that opens up a whole new hunting area and adventure.
Reading broadly and searching books and other ephemera can really pay off.
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My TreasureBeachesReport.blogspot.com site continues to draw many readers. Blogger tells me that there were 6333 views on that blog site yesterday.
One of the most viewed posts is one dealing with a very rare find - a red piece of sea glass, but not just any piece of red sea glass, it was even more special than that. That post undoubtedly attracts sea glass collectors as well as detectorists.
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| My Uranium Infused Red Sea Glass Find. |
It is estimated that only one in 10,000 to 20,000 pieces of sea glass are red. That is rare enough, but the piece I found was not only red, but in a very nice cushion shape, but most importantly much more rare by being infused.
It is not a common glass color and hasn’t been for a while... But when there is red sea glass, it’s usually from ship lights and other maritime lights.
Older shards might be from car tail lights or old-time lantern lenses. Several pieces might come from Ancor Hocking's Royal Ruby Glass, which was first made in 1938 and was intended as fancy dinnerware.
Here is the link about rare sea glass colors.
It took me years to uncover the story of my sea glass find. I didn't appreciate until I learned more about it. I eventually discovered the yellow flecks I saw was from the uranium used to create a reflective glass, probably from a buoy lens.
I told of the process of learning more about that find in 2020. I discovered the piece of glass about seven years earlier. So that is how long it took for me to discover what I had.
Here is the post in which I told about that.
Unfortunately, the recent readers of the old post are not getting the full fascinating story that I only uncovered years later. I'm going to try to add a redirect from the original post to the more complete 2020 post. So far I've not managed to do that.
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The Treasure Coast surf remains small. Today there will be a slightly negative low tide in the afternoon.
Good hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net
