By Steve Hathcock
Editor’s Note: Moments in Time is a collection of recovered newspaper briefs and other publications, compiled by local historian, Steve Hathcock, that offer a look back at the history of the Rio Grande Valley and the rest of the world. Autographed copies of Hathcock’s book, “Old Indio, Last of the Karankawa Indians of Padre Island and Other Short Stories” are available at Karma Coffee and Books on South Padre Island and The Unruly Cactus Books and Coffee located just before the entrance to the Causeway in Port Isabel.
Mr. H. Seeligsoh has shown us some gold coins that were washed ashore on Padre Island, by the action of the seas.
We learn that fully a barrel full was picked up by the people of the Island.
They are much worn by the sea.
An old Spanish galleon was sunk some hundred years or more off Pass Cavallo, loaded with wax and money for the missions. The wax has been floating upon the beach for years, and now the loose coins with a salt incrustation on them are washed up. They are much blackened, and they resemble the old pistareen. It is strange, but nevertheless true.
(Editor’s note: this was originally published in the Indianola Bulletin, on July 3, 1869.)
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