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| Nice Group of 1715 Fleet Artifacts On Display. |
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| Acknowledgements on The Display. |
As you can see, John Powell and Lance Leinart did the restoration on the items. Below is a look at the larger display.
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| Larger View of Museum Display. |
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| Found Silver Coins. Source: See Archaeology News link below. |
The coins, which were minted in ancient Tyre in present-day Lebanon depict king Antiochus VII, also known as Antiochus the Pious, who ruled the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire – or they may depict his brother Demetrius II.
Here is the link for more about that.
Archaeologists excavate hoard of rare silver coins - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News
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Yesterday I showed a picture sent in by JamminJack and asked what all the photographers were looking at.
Kurt R. said it was probably sharks or something attracted by the mullet run. Seems he was right.
Alberto S., an avid photographer, blew up the image and circled what they were probably looking at.
It looks like there are porpoise or whales or something out there.
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| Unidentified Mystery Object. |
The above object hasn't been identified yet, so I decided to take another look using greater magnification. That resulted in two more observations.
First the bottom right edge where the blue arrow points does seems to be broken. You can see that edge immediately below.
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| Back Edge of Object Flipped Over. |
It does appear to be broken. In the first photo, the blue arrow points to the edge that appears to be broken. If that is so, the object could have been longer and there could have been more notches.
My second observation is that what I thought could be a utilitarian slot, is probably not. If it was, I would expect the corner pointed out with the red arrow to be worn down more.
In conclusion, while I originally thought the item to be utilitarian, now I am leaning more towards the item being a decorative object. But I am still very uncertain about it.
I don't know how long it might be without the break. Below I attempted to lengthen it a bit to get an idea of how that might look ir it were not broken.
And then the orientation could be changed. Here are two other orientations.
It is beginning to look like I'll never figure this one out. I wish I could get a scientific analysis of the materials.
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No significant beach changes to report.
Happy hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net
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