The Great Florida Treasure Find
January 1965 edition of Argosy.
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September 2012
DATELINE: 1715 Fleet Wreck Site, Somewhere Off the East Coast of Florida
Mike Brown with his unique find July 3rd 2012 While diving in early July 2012, Gold Hound partner/diver Mike Brown had a great week, recovering approximately 38 1715 Fleet artifacts, including a beautiful, perfectly intact silver buckle, a floral-carved silver sewing thimble, and a new first; what appears to be a solid quartz crystal carved
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September 2012 Treasure of the Month
Our featured Treasure of the Month is an intimate group of five Mexican eight reales from the Spanish colonial mind at Mexico City. These coins display the prominent hammer marks or faceting blows, that are so characteristic of Mexican cob coinage. This was a common Mexican mint practice. But why? There are competing theories. For
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