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The SedwickCoins Treasure, World, U.S. Coin and Paper Money Auction # 31 is online and open for bidding. Above is a little of the auction description. The link to the auction can be found immediately below.
I browsed session one. It starts off with a bunch of gold cobs from mints in Spain and then moves to gold cobs from the Mexico and other New World mints. After that comes a series of ingots, bits, bars of both silver and gold. Then the session continues with more coins and other things.
A couple of the Mexico gold cobs that have estimates of up to $30,000 already have bids of $12,000. Those will undoubtedly go much higher before the auction is over.
Large Fisher silver ingots always bring high prices, and there are two weighing 80 or so pounds that have estimates of around $70,000. It is not unusual for large silver ingots like these to bring some of the highest prices.
A large variety of coins ends session one.
There is a little bit of something for everybody. Some of the lots I noticed in the other sessions included several Costa Rica coins with wild off-center strikes, a couple gold chains, etc.
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Is there evidence that the Maya were in Georgia and Florida? If so, why were they there? Were they mining gold and shipping it back to Mexico? Does a gold artifact discovered in a Florida mound in the 1800s offer positive proof of this? Let’s look at the evidence and see what it suggests about the true goings-on in the southeastern U.S. before the arrival of Europeans.
A site in Florida called Fort Center near Lake Okeechobee offers the earliest evidence of corn agriculture in the eastern United States. The question naturally arises as to how corn, a Mexican plant, showed up in Florida before it showed up elsewhere in the southeast. If it came by land you would expect to see evidence of its cultivation in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama long before it arrived in south central Florida. The logical conclusion, then, is that it was brought by people who arrived by boat. The archaeologist who excavated the site, William Sears, asserted in his book/archaeological report, Fort Center in the Lake Okeechobee Basin. that this is precisely how corn came to be at this site. But who brought it?...
Here is the link for the rest of that article.
Were the Maya Mining Gold in Georgia? | LostWorlds.org
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Looks like a little higher surf in a few days.
The tides are not bad now.
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