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Mystery Treasure Found On Florida Beach!

Beaches along Florida's treasure coast are well known world-wide for producing thousands of gold and silver treasure coins from the 1715 Spanish Treasure Fleet that wrecked on the coast during a severe hurricane. Hurricanes are well identified as playing a primary role in the sinking of many vessels along the Florida coastline. This year 2005 is no exception:

Earlier this month Tropical Storm Tammy hovered just offshore Florida's treasure beaches sending pounding waves onto the beaches and destroying many sand dunes that have stood protecting beachfront homes. Driving rains also contributed to much of the beach erosion leaving behind scoured beaches devoid of sand. This was the sight that Jamie P. from Orlando, Florida saw when he walked onto what would become his "Treasure Beach." Jamie recently read the book "The Beach Bank" and thought this beach would produce some older treasures for him. The rain had stopped and the sun was bright on a cloudless blue sky when Jamie unpacked the TITAN 3000 he recently purchased from The KELLYCO Detector Superstore.

The incoming tide was surprisingly high with waves crashing very high on the beach leaving only a small amount of beach between the dunes and the ocean. After turning on his detector, Jamie started detecting close to the dunes, however, the storm had pushed tons of seaweed and other trash far up the beach where he was searching. Within minutes the TITAN 3000 sounded off. After clearing seaweed, Jamie dug down approximately 6 inches and found nothing. Putting the search coil in the hole to check it the TITAN 3000 signaled a good target, and it was! Almost 14 inches down, Jamie dug what appeared to be an old blackened, encrusted disk about the same size as a U.S. Silver Dollar. Continuing on, Jamie found a number of other similar disks sized like U.S. Quarters and Half Dollars. Everything went into his coin pouch.
The finds continued coins from 4 inches to 10 inches deep, a gold watch, silver ring, and other unidentified items. Talking to another detectorist from England, also hunting, Jamie saw two silver spanish treasure coins and two large emeralds found by the Englishman.

Upon cleaning the coins, the mystery deepened. Not one coin was American. There were coins from Canada, England, Germany, Middle East and many were of unknown origin.
Jamie needs help in identifying what he feels could be some small treasure hoard. If you have any ideas, please email us and we will pass it along to Jamie. Jamie says, "You guys were right when you said the TITAN 3000 is a great metal detector for the price. Turned out to be even better than I expected!"

Front of coins.

Back of coins.

P.S. From The Editor: Seeing what Jamie found with a good land detector is exciting, however everyone here mentioned what is probably still under the sand in shallow water. Someone with any of the new inexpensive land/water/beach detectors (VIPER - VIPER TRIDENT - Cobra Beach) should be able to really "clean up."

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