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Message:: [QUOTE="Theodosius, post: 2793005, member: 77077"]Heads I win, heads I win! One of the interesting things about the FUN show in Florida is that the true treasure hunters attend the show with a lot of their finds.  My wife and I are friends with Craig Boyd, who salvaged the El Cazador.  He likes to say he is the most famous treasure hunter you have never heard of.  Craig was there with a number of his friends and fellow hunters and we spent a hour talking to him about his adventures. I have developed a sub-collection of coins that have become stuck together into clumps due to being buried or shipwrecked.  Craig had a neat clump of 2 Reales for me that he had partially cleaned up: [ATTACH=full]649327[/ATTACH] You can see how they are stuck together, slightly offset so the rim of the other coin is showing. At a previous show I picked up this clump of four 8 Reales from Craig: [ATTACH=full]649329[/ATTACH] Craig had cleaned and uncleaned 2, 4, and 8 Reales, plus some clumps from 2 to 20 coins stacked up and encrusted, really cool if you like that kind of thing.  We usually buy a few uncleaned 8 Reales and then clean them with our nieces and nephews.  If you are interested in treasure hunting or shipwrecks, the FUN show is a good opportunity to talk to some of the most successful people in the US, and buy some of their finds.[/QUOTE]