6/11/25 Report - Another Find Photo with Some Memorable Finds: Bracelet, Pendant & Mexico Coin. New Coastal Seawall.

 

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

The Florida Department of Transportation's $117 million buried seawall project along A1A in Flagler Beach and Ormond-by-the-Sea continues full speed ahead as hurricane season begins.

FDOT's contractor, Superior Construction, began construction on the first of the two seawalls — located at South Central Avenue in Flagler Beach south to the Flagler County line — in late March 2024. The seawall in Ormond-by-the-Sea stretches south of Sunrise Avenue to Marlin Drive.

Each of the two seawalls is about 1.3 miles long and are aimed at safeguarding the A1A corridor against sand erosion and storm damage, as previously experienced in past hurricanes...

Hurricanes Ian and Nicole were the state department's "last wake-up call" along A1A, Barone said. FDOT formed a strike team made up of members from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, the Army Corps of Engineers, City of Flagler Beach, Flagler County and Volusia County, and following public meetings, FDOT decided to pursue the construction of buried seawalls, also known as secant walls...

Here is the link for more about that.

FDOT's buried seawall projects in Flagler Beach, Ormond-by-the-Sea near completion | Observer Local News | Palm Coast Observer and Ormond Beach Observer

If you know the area, the beach had been hit hard by some recent storms.  The beach was eroded back to the road.  There was a high cut dune face almost back to the read and s steep drop off.

One of the readers of this blog bought a house on the beach just north of Flagler just before one of the storms and sustained serious damage.  I sold out and I listed his house in this blog for him.

I'm not so sure this seawall will work very well.  From the look of the photos, I'd expect multiple negative consequences.  We'll see.

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One More of My Recently Discovered Old Monthly Find Photos.

This photo shows a few finds that really stick out in my memory even though they were found several decades ago.

To begin with, there is the usual fare - a few class rings, a few fancier rings, some bands, a few chains and bracelets as well as some silver that I thought was interesting enough to keep track of.  

Now to the ones that I clearly remember.  There is the BIG heavy gold bracelet, which you can see between the bottom of two chains in the picture.  There is a little child's gold bracelet inside the much larger bracelet.

I remember exactly where I found the big bracelet.   It was found in dry sand very near where I had previously found a coin that got me excited, and just a little north of a wet sand hot spot that produced a lot of older silver that I frequently detected for a while.

Below is the coin.  It is a large coin, about the size of a silver dollar.  At the time I didn't know much about old treasure coins, and before doing a little research, thought it might be something good and old.  It is from Mexico and has a small amount of silver content but, as you can see, is in poor condition.  It turns out to not be worth much, especially in such poor condition.  It is the kind of thing, though, that can get you excited when you first see it.  It is a 1957 peso.

Another find that is one of the most memorable old finds for me is the thirty-three pendant.  It is covered with small diamonds.

I got a tip from a worker at a resort that a chain had been lost on a volleyball court.  I looked for the chain and didn't find amu chain, but did find this pendant.

I always wondered if it might be a sports number, like maybe Tony Dorsett, but of course still don't know the significance of the number.  

I've found some other pendants that are numbers.  I think one that was shown in a recent find photo was a 15.  I usually figure those are ages or special dates or something like that.  This pendant is higher quality than most.

I've said this before, but a lot of good finds come from volleyball courts.

There was a park that had some volleyball courts that were sprinkled by the sprinkling system every morning.  The sprinklers would occasionally uncover things, including small chains that could be difficult to detect.  A rake can be used to find small chains in sand too.

Right beside the 33 pendant in the photo is an odd Siamese twin large gold pendant.  It is strange.  I remember where I found it too.  I think I remember it so well simply because it is so strange and I always wondered who would wear something like that.  

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Monday I noticed a fellow metal detecting in the shallow water on the west side of the intercoastal.  It was the first time in many years I've seen anyone detecting around there. 

We still have a very small surf.

The Treasure Coast is also still geting a small negative afternoon low tide.

Good hunting,

Treasureguide@comcast.net