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| Lecture at the Elliott Museum. |
Thanks to Bruce B. for this notice of the upcoming lecture at the Elliott Museum.
With the U.S.Mint's discontinuation of the cent, there has been a recent surge in online sales listing rolls of 1-cent coins for hundreds or even thousands of dollars. According to John Feigenbaum, executive director of the Professional Numismatists Guild and CEO of Whitman Publishing, these sales offered on sites like eBay and Etsy are the result of opportunists exploiting public confusion over the end of the cent. “Whenever there are stories about coins, scammers come along and take advantage of the headlines,” Feigenbaum says. “On Etsy, it’s not unusual to see a penny that’s not even worth a dollar being listed for $100,000. People try it on eBay too. Nobody is policing what people charge.”
The current cent craze mirrors the 1976 bicentennial coin obsession, when many Americans hoarded redesigned quarters and half dollars, believing they would one day become valuable collectibles. Feigenbaum also dismissed claims that 2025 cents from Philadelphia, where the final cents were made last week, have any special premium. The only 2025 cents with genuine collector value are the final omega-marked coins the U.S. Mint struck to commemorate the end of the denomination that will be offered at auction on December 11...
Beware of Cent Scams | The Reading Room
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In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have unearthed ancient magnetic fossils that suggest the existence of a long-lost creature capable of navigating using Earth’s magnetic field. This revelation, made by researchers at Cambridge University and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, opens a new chapter in understanding how ancient animals may have found their way across vast distances. Their findings were recently published in Nature and reveal fascinating insights into the mysteries of biological navigation.Magnetofossils, tiny remnants left behind by ancient organisms, have provided new evidence of an extraordinary form of navigation used by prehistoric creatures. These fossils, discovered on the ocean floors, date back approximately 97 million years, suggesting that magnetoreception—the ability to sense Earth’s magnetic field—was already in use by animals long before the species we know today. While the fossils do not provide a direct link to any known species, their magnetic properties point to a biological GPS system far ahead of its time...
Here is that link.
Scientists Unearth 97-Million-Year-Old Fossils of Unknown Creatures with Built-In GPS!
It wasn't long ago that I posted about some the fact that some humans seem to be able to sense the earth's magnetic fields.
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The use of large Charonia seashells as labial vibration aerophones is documented in various cultures around the world. In Catalonia, north-eastern Iberia, 12 such instruments have been recovered from Neolithic contexts, dating from the second half of the fifth and the first half of the fourth millennia BC, yet they have received little attention in academia. Given that some examples retain the ability to produce sounds, their archaeoacoustic study offers insight into possible uses and meanings for Neolithic communities. While not all can still produce sounds, the high sound intensity of those that do may indicate a primary function as signalling devices that facilitated communication in Neolithic communities...Here is the link for more about that.
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Some years ago, I found this bugle made from a horse conch on the Treasure Coast.
I'm not good at using it, but sometimes it sounds good.
I tend it is modern area, but don't know for sure.
Here is where I previously talked about it.
The Treasure Beaches Report Direct From Florida's Treasure Coast.: Search results for conch shell
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A cold front will be coming through this weekend, but it doesn't look like the surf will be big. The high tides are still big though.
Good hunting,
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