12/31/25 Report - Site of Mission of Nuestra Senora del Espiritu Santo Identified. Most Viewed TBR Posts of This Year. Holed and Bent Coins. In Store.

 

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

An archaeology team from Texas Tech University... found the lost site of Mission Nuestra Señora del Espíritu Santo in early December. The site is located in Jackson County, Texas, on a private ranch near the Presidio la Bahía and Fort St. Louis...

The site was initially established in the 1680s by the French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, as part of France's efforts to colonize the New World. He left the colony to try to find the mouth of the Mississippi before being killed by his own men. The remaining colonists were eventually killed or captured by the native Karankawa tribe.

Spain eventually settled on the site as part of its missionary efforts. However, their habitation was short-lived and became lost when the Spanish left in the mid-1720s. Archaeologists had been looking for the mission site for decades.

Spain eventually settled on the site as part of its missionary efforts...

Here is the link for the rest of that article.

Archaeology team uncovers lost mission site of Espiritu Santo

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I can't say 2025 was the greatest treasure year for the beach hunters, but there were good finds.  2020 and 2022 were better.  But while the year is almost over, the winter season continues and there is reason for hope.  Some treasure coins have already been found this winter and I'm confident there will be more.

A couple days ago I looked at the most viewed posts from the old treasurebeachesreport site.  I started this site when the old site got too big.  That was in 2020, so all the posts in this blog were posted in 2020 or before.  

Of course, the most recent posts don't have as many views as they will in the future, so they should be underrepresented in the list of most viewed posts.

All but one of the blog posts that were among the most viewed in 2025 were posted in 2025.  The other was posted in 2022.  People tend to read the recent posts the most, but occasionally there is a reference to or revived interest in an old topic or post.  It is no surprise that most of the views this year were of posts published in this year.

Three of the posts that got the most views this year were posted in Oct. of 2025.  There could be a lot of reasons for that, but I won't get into all that now.  

Now I'll look at the list of  posts that received the most views in 2025.  The leader was a real surprise to me.  This blog's most viewed post in 2025 was the March 29, 2025, post on remote viewing.  I would never have guessed that a post on remote viewing would have been the most viewed post this year.  But it was.

The second most viewed post in 2025 was also a surprise, but for a different reason.  It was a post from 2022, but still was viewed a lot this year.  I can't say why it was so popular three years after originally being posted.  It was about beach conditions and research on a found ring.

The third most viewed post of this blog in 2025 was the 5/12/25 post that featured a salvaged silver shaker box.  Very unique artifact.

The fourth most viewed post this year was my 12/16/25 post announcing that treasure coins were being found.  That is one thing people always want to know.  Of course, they want to know when treasure coins are being found.  It is all the more remarkable that such a recent post could receive so many views so quickly, but instead of people losing interest in this post, it continues strong.  

You might also remember that earlier in the year this blog was listed as one of the top metal detecting blogs.

I won't go through the entire list, but here is the rest of the list from number five through ten: 10/13/25, 1/21/25, 10/1/25, 8/16/25, 10/11/25, and 5/4/25 posts.

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Sometimes things other than the popularity of a post will affect how many views it gets.   For example, just this morning I looked at treasurebeachesreport as soon as I got up and before 8 AM it already had nearly 2000 views.  The post at the top of the list for that morning was on holed and bent cons, which was a post that hadn't received a lot of recent attention.  The reason I believe it was getting all the new attention was the Oak Island TV show last night featured a supposed folded, or bent, coin   I thought that the girl in the research lab (Emma, I think it is) said there was no evidence it was a coin,  I don't watch the show carefully, so maybe I got some of this wrong, but then to keep the narrative going they had to bring in someone else to talk about the bent piece of metal being a coin.   From what I could see on the TV screen, it didn't look much like a coin.  In fact, the way it was bent made it look more like lead or something softer than most coins.  I don't know why they didn't show Emma's scan which would have showed traces of design elements or something.  Again, I don't watch that show closely, so might have missed something, but my point is that the show was talking about a bent coin and then all of a sudden, my post about holed and bent coins showed big bump in the number of views.  My point is that world events can drive views on particular topics.  So can references from other internet or news sources, such as when I was interviewed by CNN Travel.

Here is the link to that post.  The Treasure Beaches Report Direct From Florida's Treasure Coast.: 2/7/18 Report - Dug Coins With Holes and Bent Coins: Uses and Superstitions. Snip Pattern On Steve's Mystery Find.

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Someone asked about the store where I got the pictures of the treasure coins and artifacts.  It was G. Allen, but of course there are many other places on the Treasure Coast where you can find treasure cons and artifacts.

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Nothing spectacular here.

I'm not one to make New Year' resolutions, but you might take stock and set some goals.

I'd like to see you 2025 finds, either the bunch or maybe your favorites.

Good hunting,

Treasuregudie@comcast.net