South Florida 24K gold

Gary Drayton

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Dec 28, 2007
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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.
HH Gary
 

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Jun 28, 2008
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Excellent find Gary! I'll bet it's very old.
 

Lorrain.

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That's beautiful, Gary!!

Lorraine
 

stevemc

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Feb 12, 2005
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Wow! You never cease to amaze me! Very nice and 24 Kt too!
 

seeker41

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Feb 18, 2007
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nice!! now go back and get the treasurebox it fell off of.
 

CASPER-2

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Very Nice Gary - might have been attached to a bibles leather cover
 

SonnyFl

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Mar 9, 2007
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Your right about it being attached to something. HOLY MOLLY! Very nice.
 

Buff4

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Feb 14, 2012
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Rhode Island
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Wow.. 24Kt, now that's soft. Don't see many 24k items.... NICE find!
 

Smoogle

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Jul 24, 2011
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very special find - congratulations on that one - great to see gold on posts here again!
 

GibH

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May 17, 2009
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That is a very nice piece of gold.
 

PI PETE

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