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Pirate approved 200 years ago OR Ex Jewelry?
rte592
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I'd like to believe a well known pirate tested this piece by clipping a little of the top with his teeth.
What say you.
I don't see any heat marks or gold solder and it does have a slight tooth like chunk removed...somewhere out there is a pirate with a pocket full of gold chips.
Now IF I can just figure out how to put the pictures up.....I'D be Golden.
What say you.
I don't see any heat marks or gold solder and it does have a slight tooth like chunk removed...somewhere out there is a pirate with a pocket full of gold chips.
Now IF I can just figure out how to put the pictures up.....I'D be Golden.
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Old mount removal is entirely possible, if not likely
I've seen this sort of nip on coins where an old loop was just broken off rather than cut or filed off. The puffin does like the parrot comment tho...
(sorry for the multiple posts - shouldn't try to respond on my phone)
Just be aware that piracy was essentially over by the early 18th century. Wikipedia says: By early 1719, the remaining pirates were on the run...Piracy was clearly on a strong decline by 1720. The Golden Age of Piracy did not last the decade."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Piracy#The_post-Spanish-Succession_period
I always think of pirates being around until around the time of the American Revolutionary War. It turns out they were pretty much a romantic legend by that time.
--Severian the Lame
Have y'all also lost the "delete" (as in, delete your own post) option?
Using Chrome, I don't see it anymore. "Edit" is still there, but "delete" is gone?
Puffin Man's accidental triple post brings to mind something I noticed last night.
Have y'all also lost the "delete" (as in, delete your own post) option?
Using Chrome, I don't see it anymore. "Edit" is still there, but "delete" is gone?
Yup. Think I saw a reference to it over on the currency side as well. I guess its just "an improvement to serve you better."
Not according to Robert Louis Stevenson.
The Mysterious Egyptian Magic Coin
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Coins on Television
Just be aware that piracy was essentially over by the early 18th century...
Not according to Robert Louis Stevenson.
Or certain modern individuals off the coast of Somalia or in the South China Sea.
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
I've noticed that parrots tend to bite coins at 12 o'clock. Must be in their genes.
As an eight-year-old, I also discovered that parrots are quite partial to the tops of little boy ears, too, when one removed a goodly chunk of mine.