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Preliminary dating suggests that the wreck sank around 1780, but no one knows the vessel's original name...
A team of marine archaeologists has been meticulously studying the wreck for the past three years. The Hilma wreck is a wooden vessel, approximately 33 metres long and eight metres wide. However, its original name and origins remain shrouded in mystery...
Here is the link for more about that.
Archaeologists examine mysterious wreck off Suomenlinna | Yle News | Yle
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Hidden 5,000-Year-Old Copper Pollution Found Near The Great Pyramid of Giza
New geoarchaeological research shows that metalworking in ancient Egypt led to significant contamination in a nearby port.
Hidden 5,000-Year-Old Copper Pollution Found Near The Great Pyramid of Giza (zmescience.com)
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Yesterday I posted some pictures of half reales and a link to a document that listed the versions of Lima half reales. The first were Carolus II half-reales. If you look at the Lima half reales shown in that document, they look somewhat different from the Carolus half-reales that I've found on the Treasure Coast. There is a reason for that. Maybe you can guess what it is.
Below is a stylized Carolus half-reale monogram. It not presented as an exact representation of any found monograms. It is just a kind of average or general representation.
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| Stylized Charles II Monogram. |
The above stylized monogram, like the Charles II monograms shown yesterday, have the left most stroke of the A ending at the low point of the C. The Carolus II half-reales that I've found at John Brooks and other beaches have the left bar extending through the C, as shown on the partial half-reale below.
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| Charles II Half-Reale Found on Treasure Coast Beach. |
Notice that the bar of the A extends through the C. The same bar or extension also has a horizontal bar at the end of the stanchion. You might call it a foot.
I usually found it easy to quickly identify Charles II half reales even if a lot of the monogram was not shown on the cob, as is the case with the partial half., shown above.
You can see the assayer mark on that one too. It looks like a C, but is actually a G.
Below is another example of a Charles II half reale found on a Treasure Coast beach.
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| Charles II Half Reale Found on Treasure Coast Beach. |
You can't see the foot of the A on this one but you can see that the bar extends through the C.
It appears to me that the Lima half-reales do not show the A intersecting the C, but the Mexico minted half reale monograms do. I haven't researched that extensively, but that is my conclusion from what I've seen.
Below is another example of a Mexico minted half reale - this one was sold in a Sedwick auction.
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| Source: nhc.noaa.gov |