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Treasure in the news!
I have always heard of stories about cannons packed with treasure but to find one is absolutely amazing.... Bill Moore the conservator at the Mel Fisher Museum pulled Gold and Silver coins out of the breach of the Bronze Swivel Gun found a couple days ago... He pulled 25 Gold and 38 Silver Coins and still there is more cleaning to do... Our total count so far is 48 Gold Two Escudos and 45 Silver four's and Eight's and a Bronze Gun...
The cannons muzzle was plugged by an unknown substance and the coins appeared to have been placed there maybe in a sack.
Dave Crisp, from Wiltshire, found the coins - dating from the 3rd Century AD - in April buried near Frome.
"I've been metal detecting since 1988 and it's the most exciting and important find I've made," he said.
Club Member Jerry Bates made the find of a lifetime!
A Pine Tree Shilling (XII)
and an Oak Tree Two Pence (II)
Congratulations Jerry on an amazing find!
Your 2011 Club Officers
President - Joe Baker
1st Vice President - Norman Worsham
2nd Vice President- Dave Iglehart
Secretary -Mark Lacallaide
Treasurer - Bob Baker
SCTS 2011 club hunt and recent finds by our members! Please send in more of your photos from this years club hunt. Scroll down for more treasure in the news.
This is what its all about folks. What an awesome day of detecting by Beau Ouimette of Maryland. Heres his story:
Sorry for the wait, but I had to hit the site one more time today to pick up any strays. This is the missing second of my three recent "finds of a lifetime" for me. I found all of these coins at a ford in the river just recently. I dug 120 the first day and have managed to pick up 18 more on subsequent trips. Everything is dated from the 1770's through the 1830's. Over 115 of the coins are 1/2 dollar or larger. I found 96 U.S. halves, and quite a few Spanish 8 reales, several 5 franc coins, one from Brazil, one from Peru and one from Mexico. Most of the smaller silver coins are 4 reales. I found a whopping 4 1/2 pounds of silver coins! I still can't believe my good luck these past few weeks. I know I have already said it, but I do have to give a lot of credit to the new Garrett AT Pro that I have started hunting with. I truly believe that I may have skipped over this spot if I hadn't been using this machine. I have already written and submitted an article to American Digger magazine and Butch thinks he can get it in around the first of the year. And yes, I'm still on cloud nine!
Here is a selection of some of the various coins. There will be many more shots in The American Digger as well as some "field photos". I hope you enjoy!
