I read the following in Steven Singer's book "Shipwrecks of Florida." Has anyone worked this area?
"Hillsboro Inlet-Pompano Beach - The area south of the Hillsboro Inlet to the Pompano Beach Pier has yielded artifacts over the years. Cob coins and a 17th-century Spanish cannon have been found here. There are many stories of gold and silver coins having been found here in the 1950s. The coins may have come from one of the 1715 Fleet vessels, or possibly from a vessel that had salvaged the fleet and was returning to Havana. A beach restoration project has buried the shallow reef just offshore and, most likely, any trace of a wreck, although recently the dredge at the inlet has dredged up coins from the 1715 period."
"Hillsboro Inlet-Pompano Beach - The area south of the Hillsboro Inlet to the Pompano Beach Pier has yielded artifacts over the years. Cob coins and a 17th-century Spanish cannon have been found here. There are many stories of gold and silver coins having been found here in the 1950s. The coins may have come from one of the 1715 Fleet vessels, or possibly from a vessel that had salvaged the fleet and was returning to Havana. A beach restoration project has buried the shallow reef just offshore and, most likely, any trace of a wreck, although recently the dredge at the inlet has dredged up coins from the 1715 period."
