In a message dated 4/4/2005 10:33:38 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, arthur_cole2000@yahoo.com writes: One year,probably 1946,in the early Spring, someone reported finding some old coins on the Quast area beach. It was written up in the Newark paper. "Experts" identified the coins as being Spanish and said that they were probably "Captain Kidd's Buried Treasure" This really caused a big treasure hunt all along the beaches. Of course,nobody ever found anything. It was later written off as a hoax. Old residents of the Highlands always told stories about the treasure but none was ever found,to my knowledge. My late father used to use a metal detector on the beaches of Belmar and occasionally Sea Girt in Monmouth County. This was in the 1970's. My father and our neighbor across the street both found old Spanish Coins on the beach in Sea Girt. They were believed to have come from an old ship wreck. No one ever showed an interest in them. Dad sold his. Joyce at the Jersey Shore