South Florida 24K gold

[Gary Drayton]

This weekend a mini cold front came down the Florida coastline bringing some nice erosion to some of my favorite older beach sites. Places that over the last few months I have been finding relics from the 1830s Seminole indian wars.
I got off to a good start and found a few musket balls and a nice old lead bag seal at one spot so I returned to the site a little later to search around some exposed palm tree roots with a small Sunray S-5 sniper coil on my Sovereign.
I got a nice sounding signal between the roots at the base of the cut and I was hoping for a piece of gold and guessed correctly as there on top of the sand pile lay a gold cross. My acid test kit only goes to 22K so I had to go to the jewelers who told me it was a 24K. Not sure of the age of the cross, it could be modern or it could be old, it is nice and heavy, unmarked and it looks like it probably came off something. Maybe it was attached to a piece of wood, a box or a leather belt, your guess is as good as mine.
HH Gary

 

[John (west central FL)]

Excellent find Gary! I'll bet it's very old.

 

[beachboy]

Wow, great to see some nice finds...

 

[Lorrain.]

That's beautiful, Gary!!

Lorraine

 

[stevemc]

Wow! You never cease to amaze me! Very nice and 24 Kt too!

 

[scrounger d detector collector]

wow great. but isay the casting nubs would indicate semi modern

 

[Gulf Hunter]

Nice work ya looter! The LORD is speaking to you........do you hear Him....yet?
GH

 

[seeker41]

nice!! now go back and get the treasurebox it fell off of.

 

[CASPER-2]

Very Nice Gary - might have been attached to a bibles leather cover

 

[willie d]

 

[SonnyFl]

Your right about it being attached to something. HOLY MOLLY! Very nice.

 

[bluehunter1973]

great find

 

[Buff4]

Wow.. 24Kt, now that's soft. Don't see many 24k items.... NICE find!

 

[Smoogle]

very special find - congratulations on that one - great to see gold on posts here again!

 

[GibH]

That is a very nice piece of gold.

 

[PI PETE]

NICE!