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Prospecting the east Florida beaches

RogerBRogerB Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Is anyone heading out to prospect the east Florida beaches for Spanish gold and silver? After a major storm is always a good time to find coins washed up on shore or buried under a little sand.

Maybe someone will post photos of their finds.... :)

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  • GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 17,769 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Lord Marcovan is probably setting up an expedition as we speak. ;)

  • CascadeChrisCascadeChris Posts: 2,526 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'll ship my detector to anyone in FL who needs one, for a mere 20% of net sales price that is ;)

    The more you VAM..
  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,444 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Was watching the news yesterday - they showed a line of people walking the beach, not a random distribution of people - looked like an organized search. Local club??

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  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭

    As bad as Irma was....I don't think the water got stirred deep enough to bring up any treasures.

  • RogerBRogerB Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A friend who lived in Vero Beach (aka "Zero Beach" for anyone under 80) told me that after every storm people were out looking for treasure washed up by the sea. He showed me a couple of very abraded gold pieces located with a metal detector years ago.

  • logger7logger7 Posts: 8,898 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have met professional treasure hunters with metal detecting equipment who can regularly make $50 plus an hour wading knee deep in fresh water ponds. Not sure how the procedure is different along the coast.

  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,593 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Captain Flint wants all the gold!

    All glory is fleeting.
  • mr1931Smr1931S Posts: 6,385 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Any gold and silver pieces found have to appear nearly as slugs? Cool finds but not particularly valuable because of excessive abrasion by sand?

    Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 14,111 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I for one would love to try detecting on the coast after a storm :smile:
    or before a storm :smile:
    or during a storm :smile:
    You never know what you may find.

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  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 14,042 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It would be fun wouldn't it!

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  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 14,111 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yes it would be fun :smile:

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  • SanctionIISanctionII Posts: 12,527 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Has anyone metal detected on the beach at South Beach in Miami? Probably not easy with all of the beautiful people on the sand in the latest swim wear wanting to be seen by all of the other beautiful people.

  • ScarsdaleCoinScarsdaleCoin Posts: 5,308 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The heat into cold water tends to allow rings to slip off hands hence rings change and bottle caps are frequent finds but not as much bottle caps with newer detectors

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  • BruceSBruceS Posts: 1,356 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I was wondering the same thing watching Tampa Bay when all that water got sucked out for miles. Did you guys see the conch shells and all the other debris in the countless YouTube videos? I bet if you had metal detector and a lot of time you could have found some interesting stuff for sure, Spanish treasure, probably not, but who knows.


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  • Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 11,625 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The hard core will ride out the storm in their cars near the prime locations, waiting for it to subside just enough, to get first shot. In reality though most of us locals are focused on all the cleanup efforts that go with a post hurricane.

    Realize too that not all the findings come out of the ocean. A lot of the treasures were salvaged shortly after the wrecks then later buried on shore for safe keeping - then lost. Dune erosion from major storms has turned up a number of these caches. Of course the dunes are all protected so hunting in them is riskier now.

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Storms do produce coastal finds.....some make the news periodically... If it were my find, I would not broadcast it..... for several reasons. Cheers, RickO

  • DCWDCW Posts: 7,566 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Metal detecting for sunken treasure? I cannot think of a more exciting thing to do with my clothes still on.

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  • RogerBRogerB Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @DCW said:
    Metal detecting for sunken treasure? I cannot think of a more exciting thing to do with my clothes still on.

    In Florida you don't even need the clothes.... :)

  • JBKJBK Posts: 16,243 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have no details but I have heard there is a beach in FL that routinely gives up loot from a known wreck after a big storm.

    Up in New England, a family friend found a small Mercury outboard engine after a hurricane, just laying on the sand at the beach. He took every piece apart to clean and oil it and after reassembling it, used it for many years on his dinghy.

  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 14,111 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I've been told that you can not kill an old Merc OB...They last forever :smile:

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  • PRECIOUSMENTALPRECIOUSMENTAL Posts: 961 ✭✭✭✭
    edited September 12, 2017 2:01PM

    @RogerB said:

    @DCW said:
    Metal detecting for sunken treasure? I cannot think of a more exciting thing to do with my clothes still on.

    In Florida you don't even need the clothes.... :)

    I just had the most horrible mental image!
    Easy way to keep the other detectorist's off 'your part of the beach!!!!!!!!'

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