JJDFLA
Greenie
Hi. This is my first post. I've been checking in at Treasurenet for about 6 years now. Lots of good info. An old girlfriend got me a tinker toy MD years ago from Radio Shack. After either Charlie, Jean Rita or whoever, I went up to the Sebastian area after the beaches got really trashed. One beach north of the Seb inlet, these people were rebuilding a stairway down to the beach. I kinda climbed down dune roots. (All the stairways were destroyed) I never saw the sand so low. One week later there was around 10 feet of sand in the same spot. The dunes were destroyed. I thought for sure I would find something. Nada. (The people working on the stairs told me some MD'ers were there earlier and found some old nails-or that is what they were told). Went to another beach. With this piece of garbage from Radio Shack, I couldn't even hear the tones with the waves crashing. (no earphones) That was at Sebastian. A girl came up to me and told me some guy found a wooden chest in the sand and took it to his car and split. Yeah, I bet. Nice story. I couldn't believe all the giant driftwood in the ocean. You could have gotten really hurt if you were'nt paying attention. After all this finding nothing, I went and got an Excaliber from Mr. Reilly. To this day....nothing. All the money I've spent on Hotel rooms, I could have bought some real 1715 coins. Just finding 1 real 1715 coin would have made it all worthwhile. Anyway, went to Jupiter inlet while they were dredging. As I was walking towards where all the water was shooting out from the dredging, a tourist came up to me to ask me about an old coin he had just bought from a guy that was at the area where the water was shooting out. He wanted to know if I thought it was real and what it was worth. It looked just like the above coins that Trez called a Mexican wristwatch. I told him I had no clue. He paid I think $90. Got up to the guy he bought it from and asked if he had any luck. He said no. NO? He just sold one to a tourist and tells me no? Didn't even try to sell me one. I think the tourist said the guy had a pocketfull. Smells kinda fishy to me. I think somebody was just trying to make some $$ off the tourists. But they looked good. Well, seeing the coin above made me want to share all of this. Anybody want to by a used Excaliber 1000? I'd probably trade it for some real coins. (or should I say coin).
Certainly banner worthy. Too bad the story was left hypothetical. 
I've heard about all the good Spanish stuff found down on that Florida Coast--I've only hu nted in Pensacola on the beach---I'd love to get out on that ocean side and go for that Spanish loot! I'd use a good pulse detector, the CZ-20 OR 21 with 10" coil, or a excalibur with 10" coil. I THINK A PULSE IS BEST! 
I'd be stealthy and keep a really low profile because I'm pretty sure some of the salvage companies have salvage rights on those areas...be careful. I'm not laying any blame on ya--heck, I'd love ta get over that way and hunt them cobs myself...hehehe!
Nice old find by armchair. 
