Silver Coins found on East Key in 1868

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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, July 1868, Vol.37, No.218., Pgs. 260-262

Relics of the Buccaneers are occasionally found upon the reef; long guns of iron and brass, one of which is preserved at Fort Jefferson. The Keys of Florida and the neighboring West India Islands were long the resort of freebooters. French, English, and Dutch were among them; and it is said that they were held together by all the force of martial law. It is not many years since the remnant of this piratical band were hunted away by the vessels of our West India squadron. Spanish coin has been found on the Keys. Captain Benner, the light-keeper at Tortugas, recovered something over a thousand dollars of silver money at East Key.

Don't think they had metal detectors back in 1868... Wonder what's left on East Key?

 

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Amelia Island, the Canaveral area, the Marquesas, the Tortugas/East Key... All areas with a *ton* of TH potential, but we will never be able to lawfully go there and do it.

 

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