Posted on 10/03/2025 5:09:41 AM PDT by V_TWIN
thought to be minted in the Spanish colonies of Bolivia, Mexico and Peru were uncovered this summer off Florida's Atlantic coast, 1715 Fleet – Queens Jewels LLC announced this week.
It's not the first time the site has yielded a trove of, well, treasure.
Centuries ago, a fleet of Spanish ships laden with gold, silver and jewels taken from the New World was sailing back to Spain when a hurricane wrecked the flotilla on July 31, 1715, spilling the treasures into the sea, according to the 1715 Fleet Society.
Over the years, millions of dollars in gold coins from the 1715 Fleet have been found by salvagers and treasure hunters in a coastal area stretching from Melbourne to Fort Pierce.
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Ping!
All I ever find is old beer pull tabs and nowadays empty vaping cannisters................
I’ve scoured every plowed field around here looking for Indian artifacts like spear points. As you undoubtedly know, they’re made from stone.
Over the years, I’ve been asked several times if I use a detector.
I politely respond that I use the Mark I Eyeball.
Is that picture of silver coins? I didn’t think gold coins did that. Or are those 14k or less.
Those aren’t gold coins.
When I was a kid I would look for arrowheads and occasionally find some. I was raised in rural northern Mississippi.
The best places to look for arrowheads and spear points is in freshly ploughed and harrowed fields, along a creek or river, right after a spring rain. They show up real well against the dark loamy earth and the rain makes them stand out..............
This find was close to my home, lots of excitement locally.
Bob Menendez?
I found a lighter on the beach one time.
Melbourne to Fort Pierce is a decent distance. Have they ID’d this find more locally than that?
Why do you want to know? Getting a case of gold fever?
lol my first thought, maybe Chinese gold like their “stainless steel”😂
I grew up effectively on the Mescalero Apache reservation (and married my childhood sweetheart— an Apache woman who stated her intention to marry me when we were about six). I learned to make all sorts of stone tools.
We used to scatter them about to excite tourists who “find” them, until the BIA was so confused they thought some random field was an important ancient hunting ground.
No, it’s where we used to drink beer in high school and build bonfires.
Vero Beach
I live in Vero. Bet you can’t rent a metal detector around here these days.
My mother-in-law used to live there!...............
I don’t think the image is representative of the actual find.
If I ever find gold coins, I’ll also tell everyone that all I found was bottle tops and pull tabs. Just like you! ;-D
Most places have been metal detected multiple times up here in New England. Mostly likely the only thing you will find is some old musket ball.
At my previous house I had an in ground vinyl liner pool. I hired a scuba diver once to patch multiple holes in the liner. He told me how he would go down to the Caribbean every April. At the end of the winter season. He would scuba dive and metal detect in 3-6’ of water off the beaches at the most expensive resorts. He claimed he would pay for his trip many times just finding gold chains and rings that came off of rich tourists.
The key was having the underwater metal detector. He said all the beaches would get detected by all the locals. Especially after high high tides.
However, going 20-30 feet out in the water just off the beach is where all the good stuff collected. He even showed me a Rolex Mariner he found one time.
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