12/29/25 Report - List of the Most Read TreasureBeachesReport.blogspot.com Site Posts for 2025 and All Time with Comments. Bump in Surf For Today.

 

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

We're getting very close to the end of the year.  It will soon be 2026, and then 2027 and 2028, if God wills it.  

The years seemingly pass faster and faster, but at this time of year, it is customary to look back to take stock of the year, assess mistakes and take stock of what you've learned.  

I've learned a lot and am sure you have too.  I hope I helped in some small way with that.

It has become my custom to look back at the posts of past.  I like to review some of the highlights of the year and my blog posts.  I'm always interested in what people like and what they don't care about although that is not my only consideration. 

I try to make the blog interesting and informative but am not driven totally by views or likes.  I haven't monetized the blog in any way.  There are no ads and I'm not selling anything.  I don't ask for anything (not even likes or subscriptions). I just do the blog to share what I've learned and also to help me keep learning.  

The readers of this blog can influence the content by providing feedback and input by email.  All email concerning the blog is appreciated, but not many people will take the time to write. The other source of feedback I get is the number of views for each post.  I take all emails seriously and try to respond to each either personally or in the posts, but as a sole writer doing almost daily posts, I occasionally forget to acknowledge input or make other mistakes.  Sometimes I put things off for a while and then forget or lose either emails or posts.

Today I'll start by looking at the posts of the treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com site that received the most attention during 2025. As you know I've been putting my new posts in this blog, so the old site hasn't had new posts since 2020.  Some of those old posts, some that go all the way back to around 2008, still receive some attention even though they are old posts.  That is gratifying.  The treasurebeachesreport site still gets tons of views each year.  I'm not sure what all drives that traffic, but it is pretty constant and self-maintaining.

I'm going to start the yearend review by looking at the top treasurebeachesreport posts of 2025, which were actually posted five years or more ago.

The treasurebeachesreport most viewed post of 2025 wassss... The Treasure Beaches Report Direct From Florida's Treasure Coast.: 8/1 Report - Inscriptions on 1715 Fleet Gold Rings."  

I'm surprised that post got so much attention because the title says so little and does not suggest what I think could be the content that actually drew most of the attention.  It has been getting numbers of views month after month.  

The content on the gold rings was basically the following.

1989 gold ring: Z+DIA+BIZ+S+ZB+Z+HGA+BFS++
1996 gold ring: Z+DIA+BIZ+SAB+Z+HG+F+BF
Bracelet - beach find: Z DIA BIZ SAB ZHG BFRS

In later posts I decoded those inscriptions, but not in this post.

But in the same post I talked about the value of information and a treasure beaches map I purchased from Roy Volker many years ago and how that helped me.   I might be wrong, but I think that is what keeps getting the post more views than any other treasurebeachesreport posts in 2025.

The second most viewed treasurebeachesreport post of 2025 was the 1/29/14 Report - Treasure Coast Sea Glass and Fort Pierce Pirate Fest.  

That post has been attracting readers consistently for years, and 2025 was no different even though the post is now over eleven years old.  I'm surprised so many detectorists are so interested in a sea glass find, even if that sea glass is a truly remarkable and rare piece of sea glass.  Maybe sea glass collectors are the ones responsible for the continuing popularity of that post rather than detectorists.  I don't know.

The sea glass was a really exceptional example of sea glass, but the thing that makes that find a favorite for me is really how years later I learned much more about it.  I eventually found out that it was a piece of a lens, probably from a nautical buoy, treated with uranium.  I talked about how I made that discovery in later posts in tbr2020 the tbr2020 site.

The third most viewed treasurebeachesreport post of 2025 was the following: The Treasure Beaches Report Direct From Florida's Treasure Coast.: 7/19/20 Report - Unidentified Treasure Coast Fossil Tooth. Historic Backyard Meteorite. Tropical Wave Over Hispaniola.

I suppose the biggest draw there was either the fossil find or the meteorite, or maybe it was the combination. Again I don't know.  

The fourth most popular post of the treasurebeachesreport site in 2025 was The Treasure Beaches Report Direct From Florida's Treasure Coast.: 1/21/16 Report - Preparing and Cleaning Encrusted Coins. Another Front Going To Come Through..  Preparing and cleaning encrusted coins is a good topic

No surprise that detectorists are interested in methods for cleaning encrusted coins.

The fifth most viewed treasurebeachesreport post of 2025 was The Treasure Beaches Report Direct From Florida's Treasure Coast.: 7/6/15 Report - Corroded Silver Coins. Corrosion As A Clue. Coins and Layers of Sand.   

I can understand this one too.   It is about corroded silver coins.  In this post I showed silver coins in varying states of deterioration as well as a more difficult to explain half reale from Jupiter beach that was heavily encrusted on one side but not encrusted at all on the other.  

The sixth most popular post for the treasurebeachesreport site in 2025 was The Treasure Beaches Report Direct From Florida's Treasure Coast.: 3/13/20 Report - Green Cabin Wreck: Wreck of the San Martin. St. James Religious Medallion.  As you can tell from the link it is about a wreck site.  

And the seventh most popular of this blog site in 2025 was The Treasure Beaches Report Direct From Florida's Treasure Coast.: 7/9/16 Report - Why North/Northeast Winds Create Good Conditions and Wash Treasure Onto The Beach. Next Sedwick Auction. $15,000 T. C. Beach Find.

That one is about the effect of winds and angles on beach conditions.  That is a good topic that I've also addressed in more detail in much more recent posts.

The eight most viewed post of that blog site during the 2025 year was The Treasure Beaches Report Direct From Florida's Treasure Coast.: 9/2/20 Report - How Objects Sink in Beach Sand, Density of Common Metals. Movement of Sand. Tropical Storm Dolly

That is another one on the topic of beach conditions.  It, along with the seventh in this list could be precursors to my more recent How Coins Move on a Beach series that was published this year in tbr2020.blogspot.com.  I might add one more part of the first nine that I posted in that series.

The ninth most viewed on the list was The Treasure Beaches Report Direct From Florida's Treasure Coast.: 6/19/11 Report - Mystery Shipwreck & Three Common Metal Detecting Misconceptions

This one is about the Power Plant Wreck and three common metal detecting misconceptions.  

And tenth was The Treasure Beaches Report Direct From Florida's Treasure Coast.: 4/28/19 Report - Melted Beer Can or Space Debris? Some Answers and Tests You Can Perform.

Almost everyone has found some of those melted silvery pieces.   Some can be space junk.  I told in this post how to identify those.

The ten most popular posts of 2025 from the Treasurebeacheresport blogspot site are not necessarily my favorites.  There are others that I think are more deserving.  

I'm surprised that the post announcing Captain Jonah's 300th Anniversary find of hundreds of gold escudos was not one of the top ten.  To be fair it does rank highly.  It has been in the top ten but this year just slipped down to something like number 12.

The post that I think everyone should read is the one that answers a question that answers a very important question.  Maybe it is an answer that detectorists just don't want to hear.  That post tells you how much metal detectors can be missed.  The post is based upon a case study by Russ P., on an old city lot that had been detected repeatedly before being sifted, which resulted in hundreds of silver coins being found after all the metal detecting that had been done.  Here is that post.  The Treasure Beaches Report Direct From Florida's Treasure Coast.: 3/26/18 Report - First Investigation Ever To Really Answer Two Big Questions: How Much Is Actually In The Ground As Compared To How Much Will Be Found Using A Metal Detector.

So this post gives you a list of the old posts (prior to 2020) that continue to remain among the most viewed.  They evidently have staying power.  Of course, this list shows once again that finds are always a popular topic, and that is not limited to metal finds.  Beach dynamics, leaning coins, wreck sites and identifying finds are also popular topics.

Below is the list of all-time most viewed posts from the treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.  (I call it all-time but the blogger statistics only count the last ten years, so some of the even older posts that would be on the list are not included.)  

The top nine most viewed posts from the last ten years of the treasurebeachesreport site, which ended in 2020 are shown below.  Note: I left out the actual number one, which is simply a redirect to the then newly created tbr2020 site.

The number one post about the 16th century gold pendant find.  That was a number one post for many years.  You'll see that several of those were also on the 2025 most read list, including the sea glass post, the 1715 gold ring post and the Green Cabin Wreck site post.

Like I said above, some of the ones that I would rate as the best do not appear on the list.  Sometimes they get overlooked for any of a variety of reasons, and sometimes certain posts get a big boost by getting publicity somewhere else, such as my interview with CNN, which gave a link to the blog.

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Good hunting,

Treasureguide@comcast.net