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I was thinking of LM the other day. I was reading a Coin World article about a love token from a convict exiled to Austalia. It is super cool and belongs in his eclectic Box 'O Twenty
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Wow... how cool is that.... Is there a backstory to go with it?? I tried googling the name, did not find anything.... Cheers, RickO
That is neat. Must be a Quarter or Half...to much writing to be a Dime.
Here is the link to the article in Coin World:
http://www.coinworld.com/news/world-coins/2017/08/auction-features-convict-love-token-from-australia.html?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=Lyris&utm_campaign=WorldCoins#
It is neat (Maybe not $2,000 neat, but very cool for the specialist in this niche)
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He has made Cointalk his home.
I'll try to get him here.
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Hope he's heading to high ground.
I was just thinking of him, too. Looks like Hurricane Irma will not spare coastal South Carolina. If anyone hears from him, please let us know.
Those of us in the southeast are preparing ahead of time for Irma. If I lived on the coast (like LM) I'd be headed to much higher ground.
I am well prepared so you won't see me on TV.......
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I texted him earlier today. He's doing ok. I think he's going to try and check this thread when he has a chance.
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Hi. Thanks for the concern.
I've had some rocks in the road lately, but still live and breathe.
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-week-in-review.302162/
Wow, that's an awesome convict token!
I am home for the moment, and done with work (the hotel should be closing its doors as I type this, and the last guests evacuated).
We will bug out Saturday AM and head inland to my in-laws' place in Jesup, GA. We are bound to still get the winds there but will at least be on higher ground than we are in our coastal home location (Brunswick, GA). The in-laws also have a bit more solidly-constructed house.
Jesup? ouch.
board those windows and hope the roof doesn't come off.
Yep.
It will almost certainly still get quite interesting there. That's where we weathered out Matthew last year.
Glad to see you in here, Lord M!
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I'm glad to still be sitting in air conditonng, with electricity.
Even if it is with shingles virus on my face. Ugh.
Last year during Matthew, my mother texted my sister to tell her we had gone to Jesup. But autocorrect made her say we had "gone to Jesus', instead, which gave my sister a somewhat different impression.
Stay safe Lord!!! Let us know your ok after the storm!
LOL> @lordmarcovan said:
LOL on the last stuff
you're not in too much pain to type!! ?? !!
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Bug out, take your gear, your loved ones and stay safe
We here are all thinking of your safety.
and your descriptive coin wit.
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LordM, you have countless friends on here old and new, you're in our thoughts and prayers this weekend especially, hang in there bro.
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I'm with Baley,.
New map has it moving west of you and as a tropical storm
Me too...
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Thanks for the concern. I posted an update and some pix on CT:
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/lordm-post-irma-update.302954/#post-2853585
They have text messages on "the other side?" Ottocorrect can churn out some pretty humorous messages.
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Well, I'll never see it there.
I joined, made 7 posts, got 7 likes, and was banned by the 3rd or 4th day there.
APPARENTLY..... because I ....asked a question about their posting terms and rules.
FIRST to the mod who sent me along to Peter Davis, the OWNER.
Who may not like any questions about terms or policy.
Oh, sorry. I forgot the CT General Discussion forum is members-only. I believe their coin forums are public. I'll have to try copy and paste but the formatting over here is such a pain, as is using my phone to post.
(Copied and pasted now)
Thank you to those who expressed concern about how we fared during Hurricane Irma. I have not yet had time to catch up with online activity nor answer PMs.
Irma had weakened to a tropical storm when it passed to the west of our location (SE coastal Georgia). No doubt the folks in the Caribbean and in Florida caught it much worse than we did, but Irma was still probably the worst storm damage Glynn County, GA has experienced since the glancing blow from Hurricane Dora in 1964, which destroyed some beach houses. (The last major hurricane to directly hit us here was in 1898.)
My wife and daughter and I live on the outskirts of Brunswick, a bit inland. We evacuated further inland to Jesup, where my in-laws live. I am still in Jesup at the moment, typing this on my phone. The National Guard had Glynn County sealed off until yesterday (Thursday, 9/14), so all of us who evacuated could not return. Electricity was not restored to our neighborhood until yesterday afternoon. I will be returning home this afternoon (Friday, 9/15). I did go there briefly yesterday to check on things.
We came through Irma OK. Our mobile home (yeah- that's why we evacuated) had holes in the roof and floors BEFORE the storm, so it's a bit of a wreck, but no worse than before. Our yard is trashed with tree debris, unsurprisingly, but happily we lost no trees this time. Last year we got a near miss from Hermine and when Matthew blew past we lost three trees, a 60' awning, 100' of chain link fence, and three cats (who escaped their pen at our evac site and were never seen again).
So for us personally, Matthew last year was much worse than the recent Irma disaster, but the opposite has been true for our county. I think Matthew brought worse winds but Irma had worse flooding.
On the eastern side of Brunswick, closer to the marshes and barrier islands, I noticed US Highway 17 had obviously been underwater. All kinds of marsh wrack (natural debris) had been floated onto the roadways and they had to bulldoze it off. This had happened during Matthew as well. The wind had peeled the striping off the road in places, and I saw photos of where it had torn cobblestone paving up at Neptune Park on St. Simons Island.
Here is a picture I shot on US 17 North near the F.J. Torras Causeway entrance to St. Simons Island. These are some of the (smaller) piles of marsh wrack.
Here is that main intersection (US 17 at the Torras Causeway entrance) the other day, in an image shared on social media by the police department.
Yesterday I noticed some of the utility poles were at odd angles akin to the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Of course there are trees down everywhere.
Further up Highway 17 in the Hidden Lakes subdivision, my father's house was one of the worst hit in that neighborhood, since two of the lovely, large oak trees that formerly shaded his house fell on top of it and remain there. One big limb speared through their bedroom wall barely three feet from where they were sleeping, destroying the bookcase next to Dad's nightstand! They are OK after that close call, thank heaven, but their house is definitely damaged.
Here is my daughter Victoria standing by one of the fallen oaks yesterday. From this angle, you can barely see Dad's house underneath it, in the background.
Dad is still without power and utilities, and was told it might be Saturday at the earliest before it comes back on. There are of course small armies of trucks and utility/cleanup crews moving around now that most of the roads have been cleared. We got our power back yesterday afternoon so I will be packing up the remainder of our evacuated belongings and pets and returning home later today.
I should return to work Monday night (cleanup at the hotel has begun in my absence). That may be the first chance I get to sit at a desk with a proper keyboard and mouse and catch up on my digital life.
I'm still suffering from shingles on my face and had to go to another doctor while evacuated in Jesup. I liked him. He put me on more meds and I am gradually healing.
So, in summary, we are OK, though it has been an "interesting" month for me. Don't worry about us so much as spare a thought, prayer, or donation for those elsewhere who got it much worse, from Irma ... or Harvey earlier, in Texas and thereabouts.
(Dad said, "Well, at least we aren't somewhere like Syria, where our house would be totally destroyed and the people outside would be trying to kill us rather than offering to help us." Good point. It helps to keep things in perspective.)
They bammed me at the IP level so I can't even access the "so called...public" content.
Touchy folks running the place.
YOU! SHUDDUP AND NOT SPEAK, PEASANT!
whew
now onto the shingles
It's a delightful experience, especially on the face, near one's eye.
Speaking of shingles and the associated rash and nerve pain, though, and keeping things in perspective, that too could be worse. My mother-in-law mentioned one of their relatives who had it on his groin area.
While I'm milking the pity party for all it's worth, here's the last picture taken of Dixie Dog, at the vet's office just before the final injection. Poor old girl. The hip dysplasia led to paralysis in her hindquarters.
That was before the storm and the shingles. After I lost my credit card and my iPhone died, though.
We lost three cats in Matthew, as mentioned above. This time all the critters came through the evacuation OK, but we will surely miss sweet old Dixie. She was with us for more than a decade.
It is a sad day indeed when you have to put down a beloved member of the family like Dixie. Been there, done that, not looking forward to the next time.
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Sorry to hear about Dixie Lord M
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Oh - this just in - dateline 12:35 PM - we just lost another cat, precisely the way we lost three here in Jesup last year, during the Hurricane Matthew evacuation.
While we were loading the last pets up to go home, Luna the cat escaped. My father-in-law opened the back door at that precise moment, and zoom! out she went, into the woods behind my in-laws isolated place out in the country.
I know from prior experience she won't be back and will likely never be recaptured.
Now she will revert back to being what she was when we first rescued her last year - a wild stray.
Oh well. I hope she finds enough to eat. She's been fixed at least, and is semi-tame, so...
Good luck, Luna!
I'm glad you're OK Lord M.
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Im also glad you are well, LM.
By the way, the convict token that I posted earlier in this thread sold for $4500 plus the buyers premium! That probably pushed it north of $5k!
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YOW!
I knew that was a special - VERY special - piece - and likely a four-figure piece at that, but that price surprises me a little. I've benefited some from love tokens being such a small, underappreciated niche, but sometimes the secret gets out on those special pieces, I guess.
I recall a very special Civil War-provenanced engraving on a Seated dollar host coin that CNG sold a year or so back. That went for over $2K, if I remember correctly.
As a normal it's really tough to get banned on CT. They do edit bad language and stop fights. They give warnings and vacations before they ban you. You might give it a try again sometime. I bet you find a lot of friends are there. Peter does not post very often but there are a lot of mods from different countries. They do track IPs, so they know if someone sets up an alt. Some are good enough to get around that.
I didn't realize Peter T. Davis at CoinTalk actually existed as a real person.
(OK, j/k- I often joke that he's like the Great Oz or something.
I have never seen a live post from the actual guy.)
I mean, sure, I got a robotic greeting from him on my birthday, but otherwise I've never seen his footprint on the site, which seems to have Doug (GDJMSP) at the helm. The latter was a familiar name to me from his username on this site.
Welcome back, LordMarcovan!
The History Channel program "Found" episode "Outlaws and Aliens" (Episode 2) had a segment about a stone head found near a cemetery.
Around 27 minutes into the program they mentioned that: "In 1994, a man claimed that he found a Chinese medallion buried in a North Carolina Churchyard"
This has to be the "Mysterious Ming Medallion" that LordMarcovan found.
The ten episodes so far are on the History Channel website.
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Fascinating!
Yes, that was me! My "Mysterious Ming Medallion" find got several pages of coverage in controversial alt-historian Gavin Menzies' recent book, "Who Discovered America?". I was named and quoted and had exchanged one email with Menzies years ago, but had no inkling that my find and I were mentioned in the book until a friend (@aethelred) happened to randomly pick up a copy in a bookstore in NC and told me I was in it.
@Mark - you've been prodding me to submit to The Numismatist. I think one of the first things I need to do is dig up the online story about the Ming Medallion (the original version probably still exists in the archived MD Forum posts here), dust it off, flesh it out, clean it up, and submit it, including citations of all the subsequent publicity that find received.
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That Chinese medallion find was one of the most interesting stories on this forum!
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@lordmarcovan Your idea for a submission to The Numismatist sounds like a fascinating read. So, stay off Cointalk until it's a done deed!!!
A bit more seriously, you might shoot the editors of The Numismatist a brief email inquiring 1) about their interest, and 2) how they want a submission formatted.