Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.
I was browsing through a bunch of photos while looking for a specific picture I've been trying to find for a few weeks now. While seeking that photo I noticed the photo shown above. That half reale has a clear 3 digit date on it. I don't think I noticed that before. The first three digits are remarkably clear even if the first digit is obscured by a little remaining sand. The last digit is just not there. I'll have to find this cob and clean the sand off if it is still there.
Being from a 1715 Fleet beach, the date of this cob would be between 1710 and 1715.
Below is the other side of the same half reale.
You can see the sand on that side too.
Continuing to look for the picture I wanted to find, I then noticed the two-reale picture shown below.
It has a partial date too. Although only one digit seems clear, I think the date would be 169X because the assayer initial is VR, which is the mark for Pedro de Villar, who used that mark from 1679 to 1697.
The picture was named Lima1. I now think that is wrong. I think it is actually a Potosi cob instead of a Lima cob. Beside the assayer's mark, which matches nicely with what the date. I think it is a Potosi rather than Lima cob because the waves seem to rise under the date, which is a characteristic of a Potosi minted cob. If you can correct me or add anything on that, please let me know.
I'm going to have to get some of these coins out and take another look. I didn't know I had that many with even partial dates, and it looks like I had at least this one cob labeled incorrectly.
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In recent weeks I posted pictures of a number of my old find photos that I found in a box. They were probably made with a Kodak camera. Most of the photos showed a group of something like 20 or 30 finds. Shown as a group, you couldn't see much detail on individual finds.
Unlike those old group photos, the cobs I showed above were made with a digital microscope and show much more detail than my older find photos. Not only did digital photography allow me to make and store many more photographs, but my digital microscope really increased the amount of detail that you can see. That is a big improvement. There is a good chance I'll upgrade my digital imaging system again. Now I need to improve my organization and labeling.
And the USB drives the cobs were on will probably become obsolete before long. Some of my USB drives won't work on my newer computer now.
Technology changes quickly. I started with IBM punch cards and long printouts. You would punch your program on the cards and leave them at the computer center and return the next day to get the output. Very often that would show a list of many error codes, which you would have to fix.
After that, I found a teletype and started doing interactive computing.
After that came the personal PC and floppy drives. Then there was scan disks, and then CD-ROMs, and then USB drives followed by the cloud.
Most of those technologies are now obsolete. I don't have anything to run my punch card programs on. Nothing that will read my floppies or scan disks. And some of my USB drives don't work on my new computer and some have failed. On the other hand, I have photographic prints that are over one hundred years old and don't depend on any hardware to read or display.
There are, as I just pointed out, advantages to digital photography. You can quickly and inexpensively take many photos, including very good closeups. And you can easily store thousands of photos, but that requires good organization and labeling. And media can fail or become obsolete. I'm hoping the image I've been looking for is not on a dead medium.
In know I can use the cloud, and that might seem like the answer, and it might be for a while, but technology changes, companies change, and there can be other problems.
All my really old photos are on paper. The paper degrades too if you aren't careful. It can get lost too, but so far it has far outlasted any other storage media I ever used. I back them up on digital devices too.
Technology offers great advantages, but it won't stay the same very long. Take care to organize and label things well, anticipate changes and plan ahead.
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I'm finally going to do it.
I'm going to begin what I'll call a quasi remote viewing challenge. It is not a strict remote viewing experiment for a couple reasons. One is that the methodology is not strictly controlled and will be open to valid criticism. For example, I have personal knowledge of the target and location which opens any positive results to the possibility of alternative interpretations such as telepathy.
It seems to me that the major flaws in the procedure will make the possibility of positive results more likely. Therefore, if there are no positive results, there would be no reason to conduct a better controlled experiments in the future. We'll see.
The challenge will remain open for at least two weeks. Remote viewing typically involves viewer drawings. If you can submit photos of your drawing I will accept that, but verbal descriptions will also be accepted.
Below is what I will tell you of the location to be remotely viewed.
Several years ago an object was secreted at the location.
Give it a shot if you are so inclined.
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There is no tropical activity on the NHC map and the Treasure Coast surf remains small.
Good hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net