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An amazing hoard that was buried before World War II was part of the one of the most amazing collections ever assembled. It is known as the Traveller Collection. The 17th century Ferdinand III gold coin is expected to bring in over 1 million dollars.
CHF indicates Swiss francs. A Swiss franc is now worth about $1.26 US.
But the really good story isn't the coin. This coin is only a small part of the collection and a bigger more fascinating story.
Here is some of that story.
A collection of 15,000 historical coins, known as the Traveller Collection, is set to be auctioned by Numismatica Ars Classica (NAC), with experts estimating its value at over $100 million...
The collection features coins from more than 100 territories around the world, spanning centuries and including extremely rare coins in exceptional preservation condition, with some traceable to the greatest collections of the late 19th and early 20th centuries...
The original collector, whose identity remains undisclosed, began amassing coins in the aftermath of the Wall Street Crash of 1929. By the late 1930s, he and his wife had traveled extensively across Europe and the Americas, acquiring coins and meticulously documenting their origins. Fearing a Nazi invasion during Hitler's rise to power, he buried his coin collection, a decision made in the face of growing unrest on the continent. He carefully packed his acquisitions into cigar boxes, sealed them in aluminum wrappers, and buried them deep underground, where they remained for over five decades. Not long after the Nazis occupied parts of Europe, he died of a stroke. Only he and his wife knew the location of the buried coins, which included more than 10,000 coins hidden in their garden...
Source: The Traveller Collection's $100 million coin trove heads to NAC auction | The Jerusalem Post
In the mid-1990s, the collector's widow, now elderly, decided to retrieve the buried treasure, realizing it was time to unearth the collection. She enlisted the expertise of Numismatica Ars Classica (NAC) to oversee the sale and produce an inventory and evaluation.
What NAC uncovered was extraordinary, and it took more than a year to catalog the coins. "It was like being in a candy store every day,"...
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The above coin is only one of many examples in the collection. Here is just one of many more possible examples in the collection..
Here is a resource you might like. It is the newsletter of the Aucilla River Prehistory Project, which came to an end in 2000. You'll find many notes about the project that focuses on a little out-of-the-way corner of Florida that has a rich archaeological history.
In the last issue of the Aucilla River Times you'll find information on quite a variety of topics, including paleo Indians, mounds, a person sometimes referred to as Florida's first archaeologist and how to tell the different between various species of mammoths and mastodons from tusk patterns. If you are interested in Florida archaeology, I'd recommend taking at least a quick look.
Here is the link.
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Busy Atlantic. We have a new tropical storm - Humberto. and some developing weather over the Bahamas.
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So it looks like we'll get a nice little increase in the surf next week. Combined with the high tides, that should cause a little sand movement.
Good hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net