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  1. Feb 14, 2012, 06:17 PM
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    South Florida 24K gold

    This weekend a mini cold front came down the Florida coastline bringing some nice erosion to some of my favorite older beach sites. Places that over the last few months I have been finding relics from the 1830s Seminole indian wars.
    I got off to a good start and found a few musket balls and a nice old lead bag seal at one spot so I returned to the site a little later to search around some exposed palm tree roots with a small Sunray S-5 sniper coil on my Sovereign.
    I got a nice sounding signal between the roots at the base of the cut and I was hoping for a piece of gold and guessed correctly as there on top of the sand pile lay a gold cross. My acid test kit only goes to 22K so I had to go to the jewelers who told me it was a 24K. Not sure of the age of the cross, it could be modern or it could be old, it is nice and heavy, unmarked and it looks like it probably came off something. Maybe it was attached to a piece of wood, a box or a leather belt, your guess is as good as mine.
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  3. Feb 14, 2012, 06:40 PM #2
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    Re: South Florida 24K gold

    Excellent find Gary! I'll bet it's very old.
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  4. Feb 14, 2012, 07:09 PM #3
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    Re: South Florida 24K gold

    Wow, great to see some nice finds...
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  5. Feb 14, 2012, 07:16 PM #4
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    Re: South Florida 24K gold

    That's beautiful, Gary!!

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  6. Feb 14, 2012, 07:33 PM #5
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    Re: South Florida 24K gold

    Wow! You never cease to amaze me! Very nice and 24 Kt too!
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  7. Feb 14, 2012, 09:13 PM #6
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    Re: South Florida 24K gold

    wow great. but isay the casting nubs would indicate semi modern
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  8. Feb 14, 2012, 11:03 PM #7
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    Re: South Florida 24K gold

    Nice work ya looter! The LORD is speaking to you........do you hear Him....yet?
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  9. Feb 15, 2012, 12:16 AM #8
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    Re: South Florida 24K gold

    nice!! now go back and get the treasurebox it fell off of.
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  10. Feb 15, 2012, 02:32 AM #9
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    Re: South Florida 24K gold

    Very Nice Gary - might have been attached to a bibles leather cover
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  11. Feb 15, 2012, 06:37 AM #10
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    Time is nothing, timing is everything.
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  12. Feb 15, 2012, 07:37 AM #11
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    Re: South Florida 24K gold

    Your right about it being attached to something. HOLY MOLLY! Very nice.
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  13. Feb 15, 2012, 07:41 AM #12
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    Re: South Florida 24K gold

    great find
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  14. Feb 15, 2012, 11:56 AM #13
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    Re: South Florida 24K gold

    Wow.. 24Kt, now that's soft. Don't see many 24k items.... NICE find!
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  15. Feb 16, 2012, 05:05 AM #14
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    Re: South Florida 24K gold

    very special find - congratulations on that one - great to see gold on posts here again!
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  16. Feb 16, 2012, 08:27 AM #15
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    Re: South Florida 24K gold

    That is a very nice piece of gold.
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  17. Feb 17, 2012, 10:41 PM #16
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    Re: South Florida 24K gold

    NICE!
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