6/19/25 Report - Another Group of Metal Detector Finds. Spanish Colonial Sword Information Resource. Traits of Successful People.

 

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In yesterday's post I talked about Spanish Colonial swords and sword finds.  I neglected to mention a good resource for more information about that.  I am referring to the book shown above, by Noel Wells, the Chief Conservator at the Mel Fisher Center in Sebastian.

The book, as you can see fror the title, is about the small arms of the Spanish Treasure Fleets.  The book includes chapters on knives and swords, as well as other arms.

The chapter on swords is 19 pages with many helpful illustrations.  If you are interested in the topic, the book should be considered.  You can probably find it at the Mel Fisher Center or inexpensively used online.

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Another Group of Florida Metal Detector Finds.

I think I've already posted ten or eleven of my recently rediscovered old find photos from back in the day. I've been going through the old photos and pointing out finds that really stuck out in my memory for some reason. Some of the most memorable finds are the best finds, but not always.  Sometimes a find is memorable for another reason - perhaps the circumstances or something about the day.   I remember a few finds in great detail.  It is like a vivid video was stored in my memory. That is a relatively small number though. I'd guess something like one in fifty or something like that.  I don't remember where or when most of the items were found - even some of the very nice ones.  As I've said before, I wish I kept better records.

This is a smaller group and there are none in this group that I recall where I was when I dug them.  Many are plain bands, but there are some better finds.  Some of the best finds I can't recognize in the pictures because the photos just aren't clear enough.  

There are some kinds of finds that I didn't include in my find photos.  I never included coins o4 watches and I seldom included silver jewelry.  I didn't include relics or bottles or fossils either.  The primary purpose of this group of photos was to keep track of periodic modern jewelry finds.

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One day a few weeks ago, I did a post on how to be lucky.  Below is a brief discussion of the traits of successful people. 

Have you ever wondered why some people are so successful while others always seem to struggle and never seem to get anywhere?  Of course, there are a lot of reasons but there are some traits that successful people generally show.

When I was in graduate school, I had some interest in psychopathology but unlike most of my fellow students, I was even more interested in creative problem solving and effective behavior.   

One common measure of success in this culture is wealth.  Many people will accept wealth as a measure of success, but there are other possible measures of success.  To spiritually minded people, wealth might not have anything to do with their estimate of success.  Nonetheless, the super wealthy do commonly exhibit certain traits.  

The Wealth Elite: A groundbreaking study of the psychology of the super rich, by Rainer Zitelmann, describes the common traits of the super wealthy.

The author says, My study also found that the rich are less agreeable and less neurotic, but more conscientious, more open to experience, and more extraverted. Beyond that, however, other key findings emerged in the interviews:

• The super-rich are overwhelmingly nonconformists who love to swim against the tide.
• They deal with defeats and setbacks differently than other people — they blame themselves, not others or society at large.
• There is no correlation between performance at school and university on the one hand and financial success on the other. ‘Implicit learning’ and ‘implicit knowledge’ — or more simply put, gut feeling and intuition — are more important than what psychologists call ‘explicit learning’ and ‘explicit knowledge’ (that is, academic learning).
• The pursuit of luxury (such as expensive cars and mansions) is a key driving force for some of the super-rich, but there are just as many for whom this motive is quite irrelevant. Above all, the super-rich are motivated by the pursuit of freedom and independence. They want to decide for themselves whether to work, what work to do, when to work, where to work, and with whom they work.

Here is the source link for more about that.

Personality Traits | Centi-Millionaire Report | Henley & Partners

I can see how those traits would contribute to success in metal detecting and treasure hunting.  For example, being a non-conformist can be very productive.  I often recommending doing different things and using different methods than the crowd.  Following the crowd can leave you behind the pack.  If you are detecting the most detected beaches or sites, you might do better to go out and do something different.  If you are doing the same thing the same way as everybody else, you are likely to have to share your finds with a lot of other people.  How many times have I said, "Go a little farther," or things like that?  It applies in many ways - far too many for me to get into all of them now.  If you follow the crowd, you might consider going against the crowd and doing something different - maybe very different.

I always remember the first time I hunted the WV path I recently talked about.  I was told there is nothing there, and on one of my first outings I found a 1920s or 1930s class ring. That find surprised me too, but if you are listening to the crowd, you will learn some things, but you might want to go a little farther and do something different.  There are often advantages to using a different kind of detector.  It might even be an unpopular detector, or even going to alternative techniques such as dredging, sifting, or something more uncommon than that.

Dealing with defeats and setbacks is important.  You all know that.  We always talk about the need for patience or perseverance.  Setbacks are learning experiences.  When you don't find something try to learn something from the experience.  Don't blame your detector, the conditions, other detectorists.  Learn how to overcome the challenges.

And the successful employed more "gut feeling" or "intuition."  I've talked a good bit recently about intuition, it is the result of self-confidence and shows a willingness to go against common thought and practice 

I highly recommend sampling and am a very empirical data driven person, but after observation and data collection there still must be synthesis and decision making, which is where a lot of the intuition comes in.

Here is another observation from the study.

Above all, the super-rich are motivated by the pursuit of freedom and independence. They want to decide for themselves whether to work, what work to do, when to work, where to work, and with whom they work.

Metal detecting is an excellent acetifying to express freedom and independence. Some look at metal detecting as a way to pursue independence and freedom. it offers the freedom to choose how, when, and how hard to work.

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Surf Forecast for the Fort Pierce Inlet Area from Surfguru.com.

No significant change in the surf or beach conditions.

No tropical activity in the Atlantic either.

There is a slight negative tide in the AM.

Good hunting,

TreasureGuide@comcast.net

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