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| Quarter Noble Found by Joe R. Submitted by Joe R. |
Joe sent this photo of the 14th century coin he found. He said, I found a quarter noble near Colchester last year. 1361 - 1369.
Great find Joe. Thanks for sharing. How about more of the story.
A quarter noble would be only 19–21 mm. Edward III Second Coinage obverse legend: EDWAR DGRA REX ANGL Z FRANC DNS HYB ("Edward by the grace of God King of England and France Lord of Ireland").
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| 500-Year-Old Ring Found. Source: See Yahoo.com link below. |
While a woman walked through a bustling medieval town in what is now Sweden, a gold ring glinted on her finger. But somehow, the small piece of jewelry was knocked loose, and it slid from its wearer’s grasp.
Eventually, the lost ring ended up in some kind of dump. That’s where it remained for about 500 years — until now.
Archaeologists recently unearthed the ancient piece of jewelry while excavating the city of Kalmar, according to a Feb. 29 news release from Arkeologerna. It was in nearly new condition when it was discovered....
Here is the link. There were other cool finds.
Someone lost a gold ring 500 years ago. It was just found — in nearly new condition (yahoo.com)
Whenever you have a chance to take a look at an old item like that, study it.
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Nearly 500 years ago, an expedition led by Spanish explorer Francisco Vasquez de Coronado trekked through the plains of New Mexico and Texas, searching for “a fabled city of gold.” Coronado was accompanied by at least 2,000 “indios amigos” — or Indigenous allies from various populations in Central Mexico — who took handcrafted tools and weapons with them. In 1541, about a year into the expedition, the group was stopped near McLean, Texas. It’s there that an “indios amigos” took out one of his tools: an obsidian blade. Maybe he was butchering a bison or completing another task, but whatever he was doing, his blade snapped in half. The broken blade was discarded, left to the dirt of the plains, according to a new study published in January in the Journal of the North Texas Archeological Society. That is until between 1930 and 1940, when a teenager working on his parents’ ranch in McLean spotted something emerald green glinting from the ground: It was the ancient blade...
The blade was found by a a teenager who recognized the broken tool, but it was put away and forgotten for many years before being thoroughly studied.Experts determined that the most likely explanation for the blade is it was associated with the Coronado expedition. It could be “the first unequivocal evidence of a Coronado-related site in the Texas Panhandle.”
Here is the link for the rest of the story.
Obsidian blade left by Spanish expedition found in Texas | Miami Herald
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| Surf Chart from SurfGuru.com. |
The tides are still pretty big as you might expect around the equinox.
The wind is from the south now.
Good hunting,
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