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Meteorites are named after the nearest place that they fell. Tissint is a very rare Martian shergottite that was a 'witnessed fall', centred around 48km SW of Tissint village in Morocco in 2011.
Why would you think a piece of it would wash up on a beach in Florida?
Tissint is an iron-rich basalt and although the iron content is low in absolute terms, it's very weakly magnetic. If you mean did you find a shergottite or other class of Martian basaltic meteorite, then I think you probably know the answer to that in terms of likelihood.
So Tissint is the only Location this type meteorite has fallen on the planet ...in Billions of years Or just in recent recorded history ?