Hi, I really would like to find a 1715 COB! ILL BE IN FLORIDA JUNE!

[kindgrind]

Hi, Im from florida but live in Korea currently. Like everyone else on the site I would really like to find a spanish COB or scudo when i come back for my monthly visit to florida! IF any one would be willing to help me I would Greatly appreciate it!



Thanks, Kindgrind

 

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[signumops]

Re: Hi, IM really would like to find a 1715 COB! ILL BE IN FLORIDA JUNE!

Try this collection link to Microsoft Virtual Earth... gives you a starting place anyway to plan your hunt.

www.signumops.com/mapsignumops.htm

 

[mad4wrecks]

Re: Hi, IM really would like to find a 1715 COB! ILL BE IN FLORIDA JUNE!

Per the link you posted......

This is the Andrew's lease area which produced cobs in the past. The area is more commonly known as Klondike Beach and there was a mound in the area annotated as "Gold Mound" by the USGS prior to redaction.

Klondike Beach is now part of the Canaveral National Seashore and use of a metal detector is strictly prohibited! The way the treasure sites are listed on this webpage, from north to south, it is made to appear that Klondike Beach is somewhere south of Ft Pierce, when it is actually north of Port Canaveral.

 

[signumops]

Re: Hi, IM really would like to find a 1715 COB! ILL BE IN FLORIDA JUNE!

Tom:
This is an interactive map, not static. Its a pinch off of Bill Gates Virtual Earth. I added the pins while thinking about the locations. Hold your mousepointer over any of the pins and the caption regarding the pin's attributes will appear... OR... use the list on the right to find the target of choice and double-click on the callout. You will be zoomed to the pin centered on the map surface.

Would have cost thousands to do this in the past, but you can do it for free now! If you would like instructions on doing same, there is a MicroSoft blog dealing with MapPoint that shows you how its done.

Terry Armstrong sends

ps. I will update the map occasionally and post it as a link when somebody asks similar location questions.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Re: Hi, IM really would like to find a 1715 COB! ILL BE IN FLORIDA JUNE!

LOL, that sucks so bad. Y does the GOV always take the best places and make them unhuntable but! they dont hunt them themselves so they're just sitting there taunting us! And most of the greatest artifacts treasures and other history have been found by teasure hunters. I mean u think they should give us some credit. Just like the spanish main treasure company. Look how much stuff theve donated over the years to mueseum and history organization, but what were they?? oo thats right treasure hunters! Man I hate that!

So I guess im back to my original ? as to wear to look that almost guarantees me a find?

Kindgrind

There is NO Treasure Beach that will almost guarantee you a find, esp. with all the new sand on these beaches for renourishment. But you wont find anything if you dont try. So good luck and HH.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Re: Hi, IM really would like to find a 1715 COB! ILL BE IN FLORIDA JUNE!

Try this collection link to Microsoft Virtual Earth... gives you a starting place anyway to plan your hunt.

www.signumops.com/mapsignumops.htm

Good site. You can pick anyone of those spots, except the Cape Canaveral one, as a place to search.

 

[mnm]

Re: Hi, IM really would like to find a 1715 COB! ILL BE IN FLORIDA JUNE!

I have always had my suspicions of E-5A , Klondike Beach , but if Richard Marx or other shipwreck enthusiasts say there were no known wrecks w/i this stretch I wonder where the coins are coming from. My thoughts are that the Indians stole them and that this area may have been the halfway mark , like a rally area , for those going to St.Augustine . Maybe misplaced somehow by one of the natives .

 

[mad4wrecks]

Robert Marx was being faceitious when he said there were no known wrecks there. In fact, there are quite a number of documented wrecks off Cape Canaveral andto the north and south.

I have heard several stories of gold bars and other treasures and artifacts being found by construction workers when the launch pads, roads and other facilities were being constructed at the Cape.

Randy Lathrop recovered a number of silver coins from a wreck off Canaveral Natl Seashore in the 80's before the Feds shut him down.

 

[CobLover]

Hi, Im from florida but live in Korea currently. Like everyone else on the site I would really like to find a spanish COB or scudo when i come back for my monthly visit to florida! IF any one would be willing to help me I would Greatly appreciate it!
Thanks, Kindgrind

I'd dare say there are many of us here who would really like to find a coin from the 1715 fleet. However, few ever actually locate one. It's sort of like "looking for a needle in a haystack."

But it can be done if you really want it badly enough. I guess this is true with most any treasure.

Here's a couple photos of what you want to find. This and another cob were found on Vero Beach with a metal detector.

This "Piece of Eight" now weighs 15 g. Actually, for a beach find this one is pretty good. Many look more like roundish globs of encrusted silver.

Best to you my friend and if you give this you honest best shot you'll find what you're after.

CobLover

 

[Trez]

CobLover,

that looks like a North vero beach find, south of Disney resort 'bout a few hundred yards.

Looks like a Green Cabin cob? Philip II or early Philip III, my uneducated guess would be pre-1618, not 1715. The perfectly centered shield w/ large denom 8 to the right, very round planchet, balanced features...all tell you pre-1618 more than I would think 1715 era...unless it was a silver royal which is really...really...rare.


Trez

 

[CobLover]

CobLover,

that looks like a North vero beach find, south of Disney resort 'bout a few hundred yards.

Looks like a Green Cabin cob? Philip II or early Philip III, my uneducated guess would be pre-1618, not 1715. The perfectly centered shield w/ large denom 8 to the right, very round planchet, balanced features...all tell you pre-1618 more than I would think 1715 era...unless it was a silver royal which is really...really...rare.


Trez

Thanks,

Could you explain what a "Green Cabin Cob" is and how do you know it (they) come from the North Vero Beach?

Cob

 

[ScubaFinder]

Could you explain what a "Green Cabin Cob" is and how do you know it (they) come from the North Vero Beach?

It's a matter of reading and deduction...Trez can pinpoint a date range pretty quickly just by looking at a coin...I have to go to my cob books, but I can do it as well. Once you have a mint, date, assayer, etc. from a coin...you can cross reference that with manifests for the ships, and often make a very good guess as to which one it came from...or which fleet, etc. It's a matter of studying really...or looking it up on your own. I'm don't have it all memorized yet (as some on this forum do), but I have the references can look back and cross reference everything. It's all about the research man...hit the books!

Jason

 

[Trez]

CobLover,

When I say a Green Cabin cob...I am only pertaining to the area in which the cob may have been found. There once was a green house in that area surrounded by Australian Pines, that is how that beach got it's name...the site produces finds from not only the 1715 Fleet but a 1618 Wreck there...as well as some 1800s material.
My guess from your photo, is that the coin came from very near the Disney resort area (just south) or 1 other place...but that would be in the Ft. Pierce area. You mentioned Vero...that style of cob comes from just a few areas 'round here...so I just took a guess at the local.
I have found a few very nice pieces like yours in that area (pre 1618).......very round planchets compared to the unique shapes cobs from the 1715 Fleet.

Trez

 

[CobLover]

CobLover,

When I say a Green Cabin cob...I am only pertaining to the area in which the cob may have been found. There once was a green house in that area surrounded by Australian Pines, that is how that beach got it's name...the site produces finds from not only the 1715 Fleet but a 1618 Wreck there...as well as some 1800s material.
My guess from your photo, is that the coin came from very near the Disney resort area (just south) or 1 other place...but that would be in the Ft. Pierce area. You mentioned Vero...that style of cob comes from just a few areas 'round here...so I just took a guess at the local.
I have found a few very nice pieces like yours in that area (pre 1618).......very round planchets compared to the unique shapes cobs from the 1715 Fleet.

Trez

WOW! Thanks so much Trez! This is most helpful. I need to come here more and read what you people post here. This info can't be had anywhere else as easily as it is here. You guys are super!

Also, thanks much ScubaFinder for your info.

Cob

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Some nice Easterly winds this week tearing up the beaches.

 

[ScubaFinder]

I've been watching that too Cypress...I won't be out there until early April...the beaches will be scoured again by then. It is all in the timing...and I'll be LATE.