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A Few days ago I posted a couple pictures like the one above. In the past few days we had a little erosion, but in most places it only moved some of the recently accumulated sand. Above is my illustration of that. The orange line above show the type of erosion we recently had. In most places it was neither deep enough or far enough back to get into the productive layers. The eroded sand was dropped on the beach in front of the cut, and will probably wash back up now that the direction of wind and waves have changed. The first day or two when the erosion occurred, there were some nice crisp cuts. After the wind become more easterly the cuts were not as crisp. I illustrated that below.  When a cut gets a little older and starts to deteriorate you will see something more like the second cut shape. The sand from the cut will be deposited at the bottom of the cut and in front of the cut. It will be a little more mushy and the targets will not be as frequent. If after changing direction, the water over-washes the cut, the cut can disappear very quickly. Even after that happens, there might be some targets remaining on the slope. Remember, it requires more force to wash away good targets than is required to wash away the sand. If the water doesn't over-wash the cut after a less eroding change of direction, the cut will more slowly deteriorate, as shown above. --- |
Here are some of the items that will be featured in of the upcoming Sedwick Auction.
There is no greater example of this liberation in coinage design than the “Libertad Americana” design, of which the collection features the finest known Bogota 1819JF silver 8 reales example. In fact, we like this coin design so much that the bust will feature prominently on a special holder label made by us and NGC specifically for the Esmeralda Collection.Other key coins in the collection include a Bogota 1826JF gold 4 escudos graded NGC MS 64 pedigreed to the Louis Eliasberg and Richard Lissner Collections as well as a Bogota 1819JF silver 2 reales struck over a Cartagena imitation cob plated in Emilio Restrepo’s Coins of Colombia (2012). Indeed, many of the coins in this collection hold pedigrees to prestigious coin collections.
Arturo Rosenheim was a collector of Spanish colonial cob coinage and a good client of ours. He attempted the difficult task of assembling all the possible dates of Lima 8 reales cobs and put together an impressive run.
Other collections to watch for in the sale include:
- Selections from the John Adams Collection of Admiral Vernon Medals
- Mexican Silver Cobs from the Isaac Rudman Numismatic Cabinet
- A Fine Collection of Latin American Crown Coinage
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JamminJack mentioned a couple things I wanted to follow up on. First is Paynes Praire State Park. It is a very interesting site to visit.
Before 1637, Francisco Menendez Marquis, the royal treasurer of Spanish Florida established the La Chua Ranch in the vicinity of Paynes Prairie. It spanned 87 square miles (230 km2) and would be, by the late 17th-century, the largest cattle ranch in the colony. It was raided several times by various Native groups and by French buccaneers. It became abandoned by 1706. Source: Wikipedia.
Jack also mentioned the shell pile down at Jupiter. They have been doing a lot of renourishment down there too. There is some chance that in some of the work they'll uncover something, but mostly they'll be burying things.
Here is a video about that.
Beach renourishment project leaves shell pile in Jupiter (msn.com)
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Why do cancel culture members live in the U.S. on land stolen from Native Americans or accept currencies bearing the image of white men and slave owners such as George Washington or even participate in and profit from an economy built on slavery?
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Covid seems to be going away.
We'll be seeing a one or two foot surf again before long.
Happy hunting,
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