Today I finally received my new metal detector in the mail. It is a White’s Spectrum XLT that is lightly used, and I got a great deal on it. I will be taking my new toy out and about here in Japan to get a taste of what I can find and you will all be the first to know!

The metal detector came with a soft carrying case, a book, and a Bullseye Pinpointer all for approximately $400. I figure that’s not too bad of a deal.

Good Luck and Happy Hunting :)

1774 Exquemelin, A.O. French Pirate History Books

Main author: Exquemelin, A. O (Alexandre Olivier)

Title details: Histoire des aventuriers filibustiers qui se sont signalés dans les Indes : contenant ce qu’ils y ont fait de remarquable, avec la vie, les mœurs & les coutumes des boucaniers … par Alexandre-Olivier Oexmelin.

Publisher: LYON CHEZ DUPLAIN 1774

Subject: Pirates/Buccaneers/Spanish-Main/West Indies — History.

Language: French

More Info:

Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin (also spelled Esquemeling, Exquemeling, or Oexmelin) (c. 1645-1707) was a French writer most known as the author of one of the most important sourcebooks of seventeenth century piracy, first published in Dutch as De Americaensche Zee-Roovers, in Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, in 1678.

Born about 1645, it is likely that Exquemelin was a native of Harfleur, France, who on his return from buccaneering settled in Holland, possibly because he was a Huguenot. In 1666 he was engaged by the French West India Company and went to Tortuga, where he stayed for three years. There he enlisted with the buccaneers, in particular with the band of Henry Morgan, whose confidante he was, probably as a barber-surgeon, and remained with them until 1674. Shortly afterwards he returned to Europe; but he was later once again in the Caribbean as his name appears on the muster-roll as a surgeon in the attack on Cartagena in 1697.

The bibliographic legacy of Exquemelin’s “History of the Bouccaneers of America” is complex. It has rightly been said that perhaps no book of the seventeenth century in any language was ever the parent of so many imitations and the source of so much fiction.

For a contemporary reprinting, see Esquemeling, Alexander O., The Buccaneers of America. A true account of the most remarkable assaults committed of late years upon the coasts of West Indies by the Buccaneers of Jamaica and Tortuga (both English and French), containing also Basil Ringrose’s account of the dangerous voyage and bold assaults of Captain Bartholomew Sharp and others (Dover Publications, Inc. New York (reprinted 1967). ISBN 0-486-40966-X

Peter Benchley, in his book The Island, referred to Exquemelin at length, having used it in his research.

1715 Fleet Treasure Gold Cuzco Peru 2 Escudos 1698-M AU

LAST KNOWN NUMBER OF BIDS: 0

LAST KNOWN PRICE: US $4,995.00

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AUCTION DESCRIPTION:

Authentic Gold 2 Escudos dated 1698 assayer M under the reign of Charles II of Spain. A very elusive coin from the Cuzco mint. This coin is from authentic sunken shipwreck treasure from the 1715 Fleet which sank off the coast of Florida. Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity. Coin is almost UNC / UNC condition.