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On January 22, collectors Kerry and Tracy Hoffman of Bethany, Oklahoma, reached out to CoinWeek to share the news of their discovery of a 1943 Lincoln cent with a rare obverse mirror brokage error. A brockage is a mis-strike, where one side of the coin has a mirror image impression of the design found on the other side of the coin. In this instance, the obverse of the coin features the expected portrait of President Abraham Lincoln found on all Lincoln cents, while the reverse features a mirrored impression of Lincoln’s portrait. Much of the lettering is absent on the brockage image, but the letters RTY from LIBERTY and 19 from the date are clearly visible.
Not sure what to do with this amazing find, the Hoffmans reached out to Paula Bluhm at the Live Coin Q&A on YouTube, who featured the coin in a couple of her videos. She then helped the Hoffmans get in touch with mint error specialist Joe Cronin, author of Mint Errors to Die For, for help getting it certified and authenticated. Cronin identified the coin as a major mint error after reviewing the coin and consulting other error specialists. PCGS confirmed the experts’ opinions and graded the coin MS63. It is the only known 1943 Lincoln cent with this dramatic error...
Here is the link for that article.
Rare Lincoln Cent Error Worth Thousands Discovered | CoinWeek
You can still find valuable coins in pocket change.
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Archaeologists and theologians are working together to analyze recent discoveries and explain what happened to the ancient city of Sodom found in the Bible's Old Testament book of Genesis.
Dr. John Bergsma, a professor of theology at Steubenville, Ohio's Franciscan University, thinks the evidence uncovered at Tall el-Hammam located in the southern Jordan Valley may have been caused by a very large exploding space rock, according to The Daily Star.
Tall el-Hammam's sudden disappearance about 3,600 years ago has been a mystery to archaeologists for years. In the city's ruins, there are no signs of an extended military siege or conflict. However, other signs point to a different catastrophic cause, the outlet reported.
One thing that drew Bergsma's interest was the marks of extreme heat left on pottery fragments, human skeletal remains, and other artifacts, Relevant magazine reported. This type of heat damage could possibly be from a giant asteroid exploding above the city similar to what Genesis 19:24-25 describes in the Old Testament...
Here is that link.
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The county (Indian River) is working on a $13 million project to replace that sand.
More than 400,000 tons of it will be trucked in from a mine in St. Lucie County over the next few months to help restore what the county calls ‘Sector Three:’ six and a half miles of dune, stretching from the Seaview subdivision to a half-mile south of the Turtle Trail Beach Access...
However, strong storms this past winter actually delayed the project.
“Those December storms did kind of impact our current construction project, it just adds a delay in it," said Eric Charest, the Interim Director of Indian River County's Natural Resources Department. "We can’t send our contractors out if there’s no room to work on the beach, or if the conditions are not safe for them to work.”...
Here is that link.Multimillion dollar beach re-nourishment project underway in Indian River County | WPEC (cbs12.com)
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In a recent post I was talking about beach boundaries and the high mean water line. Here is an old post, where I talked more about that as well as the coastal range markers.
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Good hunting,
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A large, grassy hill in Norway known as the Herlaugshagen burial mound was likely the site of a pre-Viking ship burial, a new analysis finds.
Archaeologists have long wondered whether the oversize mound in Leka, a municipality in central Norway located along a known centuries-old shipping route, once housed a ship. This summer, researchers conducted surveys at the coastal site and discovered several large rivets that would have held the vessel together, as well as wooden remains that are likely from the ship, according to Norwegian SciTech News, a news outlet that provides coverage for the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and the Foundation for Industrial and Technical Research (SINTEF).
"The sizes of the ship's rivets and the preserved wood around several of the rivets show that the preservation conditions are good," Geir Grønnesby, an archaeologist at NTNU who led the surveys, told Live Science in an email. "This is the largest burial mound in Trøndelag (Central Norway) and one of the largest in Norway."...
Oldest known ship burial discovered in Norway predates Vikings | Live Science
Thanks to Doug for the link.
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