First day of FL hunting trip
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jjg70 said:
Yep, lots of sand. Since your time is limited, might be best to concentrate on the heavier traffic areas and hope for a few recent drops. Stay close to the easier access areas and vacation rentals. Stay away from the private condo beaches as those areas of beach just don't get as much traffic. Good luck and hope you have a great trip.
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Hope this helps:
http://www.treasurelore.com/florida/florida_treasure.htm
• Three silver church bells were buried by Spanish padres in 1586, somewhere in the present city park area of St. Augustine, to keep them from Sir Francis Drake. The padres were killed, and the location of the silver bells lost.
• In 1702-1704, the British, under Governor James Moore of Carolina, raid Spanish settlements including a 52-day siege of St. Augustine. The town is captured, but the fort is not. Many of the people buried their valuables, and were later killed.
• In 1894, a merchant named Richard Crowe died in St. Augustine, leaving a will stating he buried $60,000 in gold coins on his property. Searchers were unable to locate the treasure.
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/spanishmassacre.htm
The Spanish Massacre the French in Florida, 1565
It is rumored that before the French crossed over to surrender
to the Spanish that they buried their money and
personal property in the dunes on the south side of the inlet.
http://www.treasuresites.com/Members/nefl.htm
JACKSONVILLE BEACH -- off the end of Hwy. 90 in Jacksonville Beach, this is a very busy beach for bathers. A large searchcoil in the water is bound to be highly profitable. Although some fossil books claim fossilized sharks teeth can be found on the beach, the majority of finds actually come from the waters further south, around Mickler Landing.
CASTILLO DE SAN MARCOS -- ships from the mid 1500's to the late 1800's were moored within a 400 yard span in front of, and just to the south of the fort in St. Augustine. The mooring location is an excellent place to dive for old Spanish bottles and early American relics, but you must be wary of boat traffic. The best time to dive is a weekday in winter, when the traffic is almost nonexistent. The bars offshore of the inlet have claimed more 16th & 17th century shipwrecks than any other site in America, save for the Florida Keys.
RATTLESNAKE ISLAND -- site of the Spanish outpost Ft. Matanzas, which guarded the southern inlet to St. Augustine. The waters around the island deserve a thorough look for relics, and I would not be surprised that a search with a large coil metal detector would turn up coins over the hard-pan or rock areas of the bottom. As with the Jacksonville garrison, (and the men may have served at both posts) the men had many months with little to do, and a few coins undoubtedly skimmed their way across the water. Immediately across from the island, on the Intracoastal side of the Matanzas River, is the site where the Jean Ribault's shipwrecked army was taken behind the dunes, a few at a time, and beheaded, save for a few that converted to Catholicism.
ORMOND BEACH -- this was the beach used by Flagler's, Ford's, and many of the other '20s era tycoons guests for swimming. Teen and college kid deposits renew the beach with pounds of gold each year. Water hunting is the best for gold, beach hunting for coins. Some of the people you see out in the water with metal detectors and scoops have no other source of income other than this, and the beaches to the south!
DAYTONA BEACH -- pounds of gold here in the water and beach! Water hunting is the best, but the treasure hunters on the beach score big too. The water hunters have success all year, due to less competition, the land hunters main success is after the college crowd's spring break, and during the summer.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- ditto the above two beaches!
TURTLE MOUND -- the highest point on the coast at the time of Spanish Treasure Fleets, this was one of the major visual cues used to determine position for their turn to the ENE. A shipwreck is located on the beach 1/2 mi. N. of the mound. Digging has been done in the mound by archeologists and past treasure hunters looking for Spanish shipwreck treasure. Others who have searched the mounds may include pirates, Spaniards, English, French, and the Indians themselves. When ships wrecked on the Florida coast, passengers and crew would habitually start walking N. to St. Augustine, depositing their wealth along the way in caches as it got heavier and heavier. Many didn't make it through the Ais Indians, and much of their looted South American Indian gold ironically wound up in the hands of Florida Indians.
http://www.treasurelore.com/florida/florida_treasure.htm
• Three silver church bells were buried by Spanish padres in 1586, somewhere in the present city park area of St. Augustine, to keep them from Sir Francis Drake. The padres were killed, and the location of the silver bells lost.
• In 1702-1704, the British, under Governor James Moore of Carolina, raid Spanish settlements including a 52-day siege of St. Augustine. The town is captured, but the fort is not. Many of the people buried their valuables, and were later killed.
• In 1894, a merchant named Richard Crowe died in St. Augustine, leaving a will stating he buried $60,000 in gold coins on his property. Searchers were unable to locate the treasure.
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/spanishmassacre.htm
The Spanish Massacre the French in Florida, 1565
It is rumored that before the French crossed over to surrender
to the Spanish that they buried their money and
personal property in the dunes on the south side of the inlet.
http://www.treasuresites.com/Members/nefl.htm
JACKSONVILLE BEACH -- off the end of Hwy. 90 in Jacksonville Beach, this is a very busy beach for bathers. A large searchcoil in the water is bound to be highly profitable. Although some fossil books claim fossilized sharks teeth can be found on the beach, the majority of finds actually come from the waters further south, around Mickler Landing.
CASTILLO DE SAN MARCOS -- ships from the mid 1500's to the late 1800's were moored within a 400 yard span in front of, and just to the south of the fort in St. Augustine. The mooring location is an excellent place to dive for old Spanish bottles and early American relics, but you must be wary of boat traffic. The best time to dive is a weekday in winter, when the traffic is almost nonexistent. The bars offshore of the inlet have claimed more 16th & 17th century shipwrecks than any other site in America, save for the Florida Keys.
RATTLESNAKE ISLAND -- site of the Spanish outpost Ft. Matanzas, which guarded the southern inlet to St. Augustine. The waters around the island deserve a thorough look for relics, and I would not be surprised that a search with a large coil metal detector would turn up coins over the hard-pan or rock areas of the bottom. As with the Jacksonville garrison, (and the men may have served at both posts) the men had many months with little to do, and a few coins undoubtedly skimmed their way across the water. Immediately across from the island, on the Intracoastal side of the Matanzas River, is the site where the Jean Ribault's shipwrecked army was taken behind the dunes, a few at a time, and beheaded, save for a few that converted to Catholicism.
ORMOND BEACH -- this was the beach used by Flagler's, Ford's, and many of the other '20s era tycoons guests for swimming. Teen and college kid deposits renew the beach with pounds of gold each year. Water hunting is the best for gold, beach hunting for coins. Some of the people you see out in the water with metal detectors and scoops have no other source of income other than this, and the beaches to the south!
DAYTONA BEACH -- pounds of gold here in the water and beach! Water hunting is the best, but the treasure hunters on the beach score big too. The water hunters have success all year, due to less competition, the land hunters main success is after the college crowd's spring break, and during the summer.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- ditto the above two beaches!
TURTLE MOUND -- the highest point on the coast at the time of Spanish Treasure Fleets, this was one of the major visual cues used to determine position for their turn to the ENE. A shipwreck is located on the beach 1/2 mi. N. of the mound. Digging has been done in the mound by archeologists and past treasure hunters looking for Spanish shipwreck treasure. Others who have searched the mounds may include pirates, Spaniards, English, French, and the Indians themselves. When ships wrecked on the Florida coast, passengers and crew would habitually start walking N. to St. Augustine, depositing their wealth along the way in caches as it got heavier and heavier. Many didn't make it through the Ais Indians, and much of their looted South American Indian gold ironically wound up in the hands of Florida Indians.
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Its a small beach, but when i went to St. Augustine i always hit viola beach. Lots of weight, but i picked up 10 rings in 2 weeks there one year.
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dewcon4414 said:
Viola? Perhaps, you meant Villano?
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