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Ring With Mounted 2-Escudo |
I've been talking about finds that stick out in some way. They are the kind of thing that is remembered for a long time. This one was found on a birthday weekend (the same birthday weekend when a gold ring bearing a American gold eagle coin was found), which is enough to make it memorable, but anytime you find a gold coin is memorable, especially one that is hundreds of years old. Doubling up with two different kinds of gold coins on a birthday weekend pretty much cements it.
You see a lot of mounted 1715 Fleet and coin rings these days. It seems to me they are much more common than they used to be. The Sedwick auctions offer a lot of them. And you can find a lot of them on the Fisher web site too.
Correction added later: The above photo shows the wrong ring. It looks like it probably contains a recreation coin.
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Passion Flower Blossom. |
Passion flowers get their name from early Spanish explorers who saw symbols of the crucifixion in the complex flowers. The religious zeal of these people is well-documented, but their vision in regards to these flowers is difficult to see. nevertheless, the Passifloraceae means "Flower of the Passion" or "Flower of the Cross."...
Pinellas Chapter FNPS -- Florida Native Plant Society (fnpschapters.org)
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Source: MagicSeaWeed.com. |
Looks like we might have a big surf Wednesday. The tides are still very flat though.
Good hunting,
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