mexico

Soooooo many sales. I got the 14K marked gold watch for $25.00. I wound it, and it runs pretty well. It is a Lady Elgin 23. I haven't opened it yet or decided to go for scrap or resale. The sun glasses are gold filled and in very good condition. I really like the shape. The spoon was $1 and is...

$100K in bullion lost in Piaxtla River, Mexico. Worth many millions today. Anyone here from Mexico want to prospect the river? 🙂 https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024055/1906-02-24/ed-1/seq-2

Anyone know what happened to Attorney Renchart's attempts in the early 1900s to secure an agreement with the Mexican government to allow his client to search & extract a cache of buried gold near Monterrey, Mexico? Apparently, the gold was buried by ex-Confederate US soldiers who turned into...

$300,000 in gold bullion lost in Texas during the Mexican War of Independence found in 1896 by Mexican old timer who was part of the Pack Train that was attacked by Indians. That amount of bullion today would be worth $63+ million in just bullion value alone and with antique premium for coins...

In the summer of 2015 I posted a newspaper article by Henry O. Flipper. He wrote "You and your readers will undoubtedly recall the articles published in the Globe Democrat and other eastern papers, during the summer of 1887, on the discovery of certain 'lost mines' in the Sierra Madre by myself...

Lost Mines of Arizona and Sonora. ------- [Dan De Quille in the Mining Industry.] Almost every mining region on the Pacific Coast has its “lost mines” legends. In Nevada, California, Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Idaho — everywhere — we find stories of lost mines. The lost mines, whether of...

LEGEND OF TYOPA MINES FULL OF ROMANCE AND ADVENTURE Legends of lost gold mines of fabulous richness have been so common in the past that they have ceased to be taken with much interest except for the sake of romance, but there is one such story, that of the Old Tyopa mines of Sonora...

It was busy at Walmart today this evening. I was just doing some christmas shopping during a move into a new (old) home. As I approached the machine, I see a small pocket of change in the bin. I couldn’t tell exactly at the time what the small coin was until after getting into my truck. It...

My friend just found this on the beach in Cancun Mexico with his ATPro any ideas on what it could be? A reliquary relic pendant?

Lost Mines By G. L. Sheldon [Ely, Nevada] Lost mines! Who has not felt the lure of the mystic combination of these two- simple words? The gambling spirit is inherent in the human race; and in the search for lost mines and buried treasure the prospector and the average man may find a fascinating...

The Lost Gold Mine Tayopa. A Party of Four Hope to Find It in the Chico District. An Old Tunnel Discovered Hunting a Better Trail Between Chuichupa and Guaynopita – Forest Fires Still Raging Around Chuichupa Lighting Up the Mountains at Night and Obscuring the Sun by Day. ----- Special...

CHAPTER IX. The Lost Mine of Tayopa. From Along the Rio Grande; by Tracy Hammond Lewis - “A warless war correspondent” (New York: 1916) One day late in July was bad, but in that it proved no exception to a great many other days through which El Paso had sweltered. I had spent the morning...

Recently started thinking (again) about getting into metal detecting. I have a couple of cheap detectors, but want to get into it with something decent. Watching the guy on Oak Island finding tidbits of history gets me all excited :-) Anyway, wanted to pass along something that may be of...

Greetings, all. First time poster, long time lurker. I took a chance and bought this piece from a gentleman from Zacatecas, said its been in his family for several generations. The figure is approximately 6 1/4" tall and 3" across, definitely hollow. Any help identifying it, and whether or not...

​Lost City Literature I just started reading Douglas Preston’s Lost City of the Monkey God (2017) and he discusses John Lloyd Stephens’ excellent two volume Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan (1841) - “perhaps the most interesting travel book ever published” (Edgar...

I bought this today at an estate sale. It's made of cast iron and has five animals stacked on top of each other. I can identify the donkey, dog, and chicken. Not sure of other two (maybe an alpaca?). It is signed by artist on bottom. There was a very small sticker that said "Mexico" on it but it...

Found in recycling bin today: Sterling silver belt buckle with Mexican motif and coin or medallion inlay. Stamped 925. Needs cleaning but definitely cool looking. Teotihuacan Mexico [ATTACH=CONFIG] Question... Is that a coin, medallion or just a circular design inlay? Thx!

I'm a native South Carolinian recently relocated to Irapuato, Mexico for the next several months. Guanajuato city is about an 1.5 hours north of me so I figure there should be some good opportunities to go looking around and see what I find in several local areas. I'm new to this whole thing and...

from the Arizona Weekly Enterprise, September 7, 1889 LOST MINES IN MEXICO. ________________ An Important Discovery. [El Paso Bullion.] NOGALES, Arizona, August 21, 1889 You and your readers will undoubtedly recall the articles published in the Globe Democrat and other eastern papers...

I know very little about coins. My memories of these specimen are hazy, considering I got them 15-20 years ago at approximately 10 years old. Here's what I THINK we're looking at. 1. Eight 4-reale coins, found by me on a dig with my grandmother and her cohort in the Tampa Bay area. I...