Florida & "inland treasures"

[Garfed]

Re: Florida & "inland treasures"

I have a treasure hunters and archaeologists in St. Peter's friend here put a few small, crude figurines of gold and silver, he said, was discovered in a mound under the swamp....

 

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[kuntryboy_62]

Re: Florida & "inland treasures"

my wife and I have been detecting for about 5 years and have found a little of everything , however we live in the most extreme southeast corner county of georgia , but a week ago we found our first gold coin ( a 1733 spanish #1 gold reale) in a school yard and today are headed to see a specialist about it . yesterday we found a british pound 1982 in kingsland georgia.
chris and jan

 

[Richard Ray]

Re: Florida & "inland treasures"

Very interesting story. I never have dug the mounds in Florida but once found several Roman coins in a mound in Texas but couldn't get any archaeologist interested because the find seemed so outrageous. So I know that the tribes had a trading network because of other stuff I've recovered in mounds.
In the 1980's I did a contract treasure hunt for the man who owned 6400 acres south of Panama City, at the corner of Florida, where the coast turns from N-S to E-W just off hwy 30. Spent a week metal detecting there and found only one Spanish coin. It had been told to me that he had found a small keg of coins there in the 1970's. We went on San Blas point and also hunted. The area was all woods at the time and very hot.....
Richard

 

[RELICDUDE07]

Re: Florida & "inland treasures"

Ais. INDIANS ...They were also called Indians de la Costa (Indians of the coast) or Costa ... COOSA ............. Fontanedo: “The King of the Ais and the King of the Jeaga are poor Indians as regards the earth, for there are no land of silver or of gold where they are, and to say it at once, they are rich only by the sea from the vessels which have been lost well laden with those metals,” and again, “I desire to speak of the riches found by the Indians of Ais, which perhaps were to be as much as a million of dollars, or over, in bars of silver, in gold and in jewelry made at the hands of Mexican Indians which the passengers were carrying with them.”