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Rotten lousy, stinkin' rat-@#%* night. Post somethin' cheerful for me.
lordmarcovan
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PS- I had to Google Peter Rosa. Thanks for the education.
Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.
Sorry to hear about your bad night.
Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.
O.K. lordmarcovan , What do we have here ?
Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.
Thanks again.
Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.
<< <i>Here we go. A few years ago parts of Rosa's estate were being auctioned on ebay by Wayne Sayles
Very, very cool!
Lane
See http://www.doubledimes.com for a free online reference for US twenty-cent pieces
I knew it would happen.
^^ that is a hole, posted just for LM!
–John Adams, 1826
Would love to go to Padre Island and swing the coil a few times, but it's my understanding that is highly verboten these days? Some folks did very, very well there in the 1960s and early 1970s, though, before the clampdown.
Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.
greg
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And, after all they are the cheapest book sellers!!
If that doesn't help, may I suggest a little.........
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CoinsAreFun Toned Silver Eagle Proof Album
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Gallery Mint Museum, Ron Landis& Joe Rust, The beginnings of the Golden Dollar
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More CoinsAreFun Pictorials NGC FOR SALE
These two have been cheering me up lately
POST NUBILA PHOEBUS / AFTER CLOUDS, SUN
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#1 1951 Bowman Los Angeles Rams Team Set
#2 1980 Topps Los Angeles Rams Team Set
#8 (and climbing) 1972 Topps Los Angeles Rams Team Set
In 1986 while fishing in this 4 wheel drive only stretch of beach, we encountered the University of Texas, Austin geological survey team and got to wondering why they would be doing studies in such a remote area. The access road to the beach was 70 Miles to the north and the southern route to South Padre Island is cut off by the Mansfield Channel.
The survey team had a manned surveyors transit set up about half way out on the north jetty. There was also a manned boat about 3/10 of a mile north of that point, sitting just out past the third set of waves and a land vehicle (Land Rover) stopped along the beach.
We stopped and inquired as to the goings on and were simply told they were plotting coordinates for marine navigational information. We bought into that and proceeded to fish in that area, camping for the night near the jetties.
The team returned the next day and more plotting took place only this time with anchor buoys being dropped out in the surf. We quickly concluded that they were in fact locating the wreckage sites from the 1554 ship wrecks and this was getting interesting.
That evening, we went to the spot triangulated by the transom, boat and land vehicle and found this huge piece of ossified timber. The worm eaten old wooden timber was half covered by sand and water and we proceeded to hand dig around the tip. It was huge, about 20” thick and disappeared under the sand about 10’ from where we were standing. It was obvious that it was the main beam from a wooden ship and it was old, very old.
We looked around the area and this was the only thing we could find that resembled a ship wreck and only dreamed of finding gold and doubloons scattered along the sandy beach. With the sun setting and hungry bellies, we returned to our amp and that was that.
After that inspirational trek, I went to the local library and dug up as much as I could about those 1554 wrecks and discovered that tropical storms and hurricanes would move the artifacts from place to place. One author described how he would walk the scoured dunes for bits of silver just sitting on little tufts of wind scoured sand. The wind would blow the sand around the Piece of Eight and erode it into a little column of sand, easy pickings or so it seemed. The other thing he mentioned is that the coins did not look like coins at all. Some were covered in “tar balls” a natural occurring petroleum product that accumulates on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico and adheres to just about anything and everything and other coins would be contained inside irregular shaped concretions.
After that original contact, we went back to that area on numerous occasions, but as of yet, have not found a single coin. We also did not find any gold bars or silver dished out rounds that are reputed to be scattered along a 3 mile stretch of beach. There were stories floating around of people finding huge stashes of silver coins, gold bars and round silver ingots that weighed 25-30 pounds. It is illegal to even posses any artifact, so rumors abounded about what was exactly recovered by non-authorized methods. Some of those rumors are probably true while others were pure myth or speculation.
I do know of one rather “colorful” person who may have profited from these wrecks, he went from a simple fisherman to a seafood restaurateur literally over night. We will never know since his secrets, that is if he had any at all, went to his grave.
I never gave up hope that one day I would return to sift out a bit of treasure from this area…dreams are fanciful, reality is real.
Hope this cheered you up LordM
~Woody~
Tri-angulations of wreck site, Mansfield Jetty
Top image #1 The main boiler of what’s left of the wreck of the Nicaragua.
Middle image #2 What’s left of a sunken wooden shrimp boat.
Last image #3 A marine buoy that has washed ashore.
The forces of Mother Nature are not to be taken lightly.
"Keep your malarkey filter in good operating order" -Walter Breen
The rest of it's been nice, too (even that Susie B., which I am surprised to admit I rather like.)
I've already discussed that Charles I medal with FilthyBroke, but that's one helluva Columbian half.
Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.
"Gee, here, have another look at this coin I got from you for $75, sold for over $2,000, and have been told is worth $30K."
Yeah, great job there, cheering me up wid' dat.
Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.
great pics of PINS, love that background in pic #3! (finally, the rocks!)
one of my first guesses about the geo-crew, they were recording beach erosion rates.
note how much worse erosion is on the north side of the channel. same goes for Packery, IMHO, wait and see.
don't get me started about "beach renourishment" projects!
* Did you ever make it out to 7 and 1/2 Fathom Reef?
<< <i>Cladiator- that ain't called cheering somebody up- that's called rubbing salt in their wounds.
"Gee, here, have another look at this coin I got from you for $75, sold for over $2,000, and have been told is worth $30K."
Yeah, great job there, cheering me up wid' dat.
Your name went down in the journals of numismatics for all time. It's cool man. So you didn't become rich off the coin, neither did I, no big deal. I think it's neat just to be in on it. Plus you got a pretty neat Overton too.
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<< <i>I am interested to hear the story about that 1806 busty that has such a value. Please elaborate...does it have some special provenance? >>
Here ya go... Link To The Story.
review....here's my happy coin
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