Mango Lucky
“"If you're real lucky, and you hit the right beach just after the storm, you just might find some gold. But more likely, you'll find silver. "And that's not bad. Finding old silver coins is pretty exciting. A lot of them are still out there. And some can be quite valuable. "And even if you don't find gold or silver, you'll probably find something from the treasure fleet. Old iron nails, copper and brass fittings. Even broken pottery. "And if you're really lucky, you might even find an emera...ld." "An emerald?" I asked. "With a metal detector? How is that possible?" "Well," she replied, "while the Spanish were mining for gold and silver in South America, they found emeralds. Knowing they were valuable, they put them on the ships to send back to Spain. "When the ships went down, the emeralds went down with them. They'd get encrusted onto metal objects in the ship's debris field. They'd wash up on the beach, and every once in a while, people would find them. Even with a metal detector." I nodded, "Cool.MoreLess
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