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| Coins From the Great Kentucky Hoard. Source: See Fox News link below. |
A cache of more than 800 Civil War-era gold coins were recently unearthed in a Kentucky cornfield — a treasure worth millions that experts are calling one of the greatest finds of the 21st century.
"It's hard to put this in context because there are so few instances of coins of this nature with this level of rarity being found in the ground in the United States," Andrew Salzberg, executive vice president of the Numismatic Guaranty Company’s (NGC) Certified Collectibles Group, told Fox News Digital.
NGC, a third-party grading service for coins, tokens and medals based in Sarasota, Florida, certified the coins — dubbed the "Great Kentucky Hoard" — and valued them at more than $2 million...
Here is the link for more about that.
Thanks to Scott B. for that link.
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In 1912 a hoard was found by two boys in a freshly plowed field in Pasco Florida. The hoard consisted of silver coins stored in fruit jars - not an uncommon container for caches.
The coins were U.S. coins dated between from 1893 to 1912, which if correct, means the coins were in the ground for 46 years before being plowed up.
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| Source: Florida man goes viral as he digs trench that goes wrong, forcing cops to shut it down on August 2 (msn.com) |
The Florida man spent hours excavating a trench - on all fours and wearing a floral swimsuit. The trench supposedly ran from the ocean to the far end of the beach, next to what seemed to be a sizable canal. After successfully connecting the two water bodies, he stood back and observed as the water started to flow.
The small trench eventually grew into a large, raging river that entirely cut off part of the beach, generating a potentially fatal tidal current. Eventually, the cops arrived to put an end to the fun. Though it doesn't show how they managed to cut off the water, the video's ending caption, "Cops shut it down," mentions the actions of the police...
Hey. I could use this guy.
You can see how an inlet could get cut into the beach under the right conditions.
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Here is one of those finds that I never figured out. It doesn't seem like it should be that difficult to identify, yet I still don't know what it is.
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| Unidentified Tag Find - 2.5 ALABAMA |
Maybe a dog tag? I don't know.
Anybody have an ideas?
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It has been a really hot but calm summer this year, but we are just getting to the time of year when most hurricanes occur.
The official hurricane season for the Atlantic basin is from June 1 to November 30. However, the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season is September 10, with most activity occuring between mid-August and mid-August and mid-October. August is historically the mont the tropical Atlantic begins kicking into high gear, with the biggest increase in tropical activity of the entire hurricane season. While hurricanes can happen at any point during hurricane season, mid-August through late October is the most likely time for a hurricane to make landfall in Florida.
Right now, there are no developing storms shown on our National Hurricane Center tropical activity map.
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