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| 1959 D Copper Cent Found Thursday. |
I was on my way back to the car Thursday when I found a pocket spill. Among the coins were a couple of nice copper cents. They weren't anything special, but compared to those zinc pennies, they are attractive. I was surprised they were in such nice condition for the age. There was a 1959 and 1961 - both attractive coins.
As you probably know, wheat cents were made from 1909 to 1958, but there is one known 1959 D wheat cent. It is considered to be a mule error worth $50,000. It is one of the most famous mule errors known.
You can use the following link to read more about the mystery of the 1959 wheat cent.Wouldn't it be nice to find another example.
I haven't had much luck finding error coins but I have found a few. Tbe best one is a cataloged example on one of the best error coin databases. It is 1994 cent showing a die crack and retained cud.
For more about looking at your coins for die cracks and related errors, see The Treasure Beaches Report Direct From Florida's Treasure Coast.: 12/13/19 Report - Looking More Closely At Your Coin Finds For Fun and Profit. Coin Chips and Cracks. Surf's Up.
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When King Henry VIII ordered the construction of the Mary Rose in 1510, he was just 19 years old and had assumed the throne one year earlier. At the time, the Mary Rose was a "state-of-the-art" warship capable of carrying up to eight large guns and weighing about 600 tons (544 metric tons), according to the Mary Rose Trust in Portsmouth, U.K. The Mary Rose sailed in two wars against France before capsizing — "for reasons unknown" — during a battle against the French armada, and it sank to the ocean bottom along with a crew of about 500, according to the Trust...
The Mary Rose — what was left of it — languished at the bottom of the English Channel until the ship was raised in 1982, and though conservators took steps to treat and preserve the waterlogged structures, little was known about the bacterial species inhabiting the wood and if their byproducts could jeopardize the rescued ship's preservation.
By combining X-rays with a technique that compares atoms of molecules in the ship's wood, scientists detected acid-forming nanoparticles that were byproducts of destructive bacteria. Identifying and pinpointing the location of acid-forming compounds that could erode the ship, will help conservators to protect this one-of-a-kind artifact...
Here is the link for more about that.---
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection web site provides a lot of information on Florida beach erosion history. There is a lot to dig into. If you find anything particularly interesting, let me know, I haven't had time to research it well. There is a lot of data and illustrations to look at.
Here is the link.
Historic Shoreline Database | Florida Department of Environmental Protection
The tides are pretty flat now.
Today the surf will be three to four feet and the next few days we'll have something like three to five feet.
Happy hunting,
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