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In my 1/11/23 post I showed a Mexico 2-reale from the reign of Juana and Carlos that was found on the Treasure Coast. I also posted some illustrations from a great book on Treasure Coins authored by Sewall Menzel. Today I want to present another great reference book on Spanish coins. That book is essentially a vast database of illustrated cobs and coins, including a huge number of varieties. To give an example of how complete the book is, today I the illustrations of Mexico two-reales from the reign of Juana and Carlos. There are 29 varieties of those listed. Take a look.
The Treasure Coast found 16th-century coin that I most recently showed (with the O assayer mark) is shown as type (Tipo) 74. It could be one of two varieties. Since the mint mark wasn't visible on that coin, I couldn't tell if the mint mark was M or o over M. So it could be either of those two varieties. The illustration for both of those varieties shows the O assayer mark as slightly higher than the separation line between the lion and castle part of the shield. That was something I didn't see in the Menzel illustrations. Maybe it was there somewhere, but I didn't see it.
The full title of this book is, Monedas Espanolas desde Juana y Carlos a Isabel II 1504 a 1863 by Ferran Calico, Xavior Calico, Joaquin Grigo (1985).
It is an excellent resource, but as you can see, was published in Spanish. Fortunately, it takes very little understanding of Spanish. The bulk of the book consistes of all the illustrations.
I found this clopy in a thrift store many years ago. Notice, the years included are 1504 to 1868. That is pretty extensive, and you will find the coins of mints other than the New World mints.
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There is gold in seawater, but extracting it is prohibitively expensive. A cubic mile of the ocean has something like $1 million dollars of gold in it. At least that is what the article says.
Here is the link.
There’s $700 Trillion Worth of Gold in Seawater! Can We Extract It? [Video] (scitechdaily.com)
Weren't they shocked to find gold in the water on Oak Island?
You can also turn plastic back into oil, but at this time that is also prohibitively expensive too.
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Here is the Carter's cone ink bottle that I found not too long ago after it was cleaned.
In the first photo you can see a dent in the double ring lip, which I assume was created by a slight accident when the lip was applied.
I added some additional Treasure Coast foiund bottles to the tgbottle.blogspot.com site.
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| Source: MagicSeaWeed.com. |
So the surf will start to decrease today.
If we can't get some beach ripping erosion, I'd sure like to see some super low tides.
Good hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net