Standing by to stand by....... my partner is remodeling a condo in plantation key..... in the 80s when this condo was built the owner of the shipwreck museum in key west was working with his father digging a swimming lake when he was a young man. They stopped to take a brake from excavating.....they snuck off the property to drink a beer in the cleared lot next door. As they sat drinking there beers on break a kid on a dirt bike came riding up. He rode his dirt bike up onto a natural dirt mound ( most likely an Indian mound) he started to peel out with the dirt bike and as he hit the throttle.....the first 18 pieces of eight were uncovered by the tire of the dirt bike. Those original 18 coins from the 1733 fleet are on display at the shipwreck museum. They returned the next day and recoveredan additional 232 piece of eight cobb coins.
This condo is the ground zero of the finds.....slight chance I will don a yellow work vest and blend in with the rest of the workers.....of course I'll be looking for sprinkler pipes underground!! Im hoping to get the ok in an hour or so.....I've been trying to get in here for awhile......5 years !!