Treasure Coast Archeological Society Meeting

February 1, 2012

 

The next meeting is on Wednesday,  March 7, 2012.

The  meeting was called to order at 7:43 P.M. by Richard Hart, Sr., President of TCAS.

The Pledge of Allegiance was led by Richard Hart, II.

The minutes can be read on the club website, www.tcas.us. They are also emailed to members

with email addresses on file on the last Wednesday of the month.

 

General Notes:

35 Members present and 3 guest present.

Club dues are now due. Just $20 per year for a single or $25 a year for a family membership.

Richard Hart, TCAS President talked about:

 

  -- Board Meeting in January for the Annual Hunt and for the operation of TCAS for 2012.

  -- Fall molasses raffle or a token hunt

    -- Possible token hunt for Sebastian and Melbourne areas

    -- Need ideas and someone to run the token hunts (plant token and come up with clues)

 

Mitch King, TCAS Vice-President talked about the Annual Hunt

  -- Sign up sheet for volunteers at next meeting

  -- The amount of silver to be planted

  -- If silver prices stay high, the possibility of modifying future hunts and advertisements

  -- Annual Hunt is on Saturday, March 10, 2012

  --Clean the Park Hunt in on Saturday, March 3, 2012. Be there at 9:30 AM with a side dish!

 

Will Rose, out most excellent photographer is recovering well from his heart troubles and he says hi to all. With any luck we will be at the March meeting. Hope to see you there Will.

 

The world of Facebook.com has entered the metal detecting world! The Central Florida Metal Detecting Club in Orlando http://www.thecfmdc.com/ has an well used face book page. Check them out. They have a link on their club site.

 

TCAS also has a face book site! Talk to fellow members, check out what is coming up on our events page and even post pictures of all kinds! We are up and running! Like Us! http://www.facebook.com/tcasfl

 

Mitch King spoke of his many trips to England. When he goes on these trips he is a hard core metal detectorist…in the fields at sunrise and still there at sunset! It cost about $1,600 per week to detect plus the cost just to get there!

 

He goes to Colchester England which is about 60 miles NE of London and is the "oldest recorded Roman town in Britain, Colchester claims to be the oldest town in Britain."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colchester  

Any find older than 50 years cannot be taken out of the country without first being documented, listed and submitted for review. If your find is determined to be rare enough, they will request to actually see the find. If it is determined that it cannot be taken out of the country (i.e. they WANT it), the value of the find will be determined and you will get paid for it.  

When there you hunt farm fields and will be the only ones there! His list of finds is, at least to me, tremendous and to long to list here. Besides, it was to dark in the room to take good notes!

 

Mark Holshoe explained the "finds" table.

 

Find Winners:

 

Ring: Mike Kurczy                                Group Coins: Mike Kurczy  

Jewelry: Jim Larson                              Artifacts: Jerry Davis

Single Coins: Mike Kurczy                    Fossils: Ryan Rathbun\

Miscellaneous:

Find of the Month: Jim Larson

FIND OF THE YEAR: JONI HART!

 

 

 

Drawing Winners:

 

50/50:  $48/24 Bob Harrison                                        Badge: Donna Rothery

 

T-Shirt: Donna Rothery                                     Hat: Dale Thesenvitz

 

Extra Dime Winners: Marty Hufnagel/Larry King/Larry King -- Yes Larry won two extra dimes!

 

 

Doughnuts/coffee/cooler:

 

Coffee will be brought by: Kira Thesenvitz  

Doughnuts will be brought by: Marty Hufnagel  

Cooler with drinks will be brought by the 50/50 winner: Bob Harrison  

The meeting adjourned at: 9:25 P.M.  

Respectfully Submitted,  

Dale T. Thesenvitz

TCAS Secretary