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| Source: nhc.noaa.gov |
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| Coins Found by Sea Reaper. Photo submitted by Captain Jonah |
Thought I'd take a little closer look at some of the escudos found by the Sea Reaper.
Here is the picture I posted yesterday, but I put a letter by three of the coins.
The ones marked A, B and C are from the Lima mint. If you look at the upper left section of the tic tac toe, you can see the "L" mint mark on those three coins. To the right of that you can see the "2" mark for the denomination. The escudo labeled "D" is upside down in the picture.
Escudo A, looks like it might be 1710. I think I see the 7 in the bottom far left, and the 1 in the middle bottom section and then the 0 in the bottom left section.
B looks like it could be 1711, but I'm not sure of that. And C 170 something. I don't think the last digit of the date is readable.
Jonah says they've found coins from Bogota, Cusco, Lima and Mexico mints.
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As you undoubtedly know, we'll have a partial solar eclipse today. If you don't have NASA approved glasses, you can make a pin-hole projector. It is easy and it works. You can look it up. You don't need much more than a cereal box and some foil. I've done it before.
Here is something related to the eclipse that I thought was neat. You can get Solar Eclipse stamps from the U. S. Post Office that change. When cold, the stamp shows a total eclipse, but when warmed it changes.
Below is the stamp as it looks when it is cold.
And the next picture shows a stamp on the same sheet after it warms a little.
I didn't get the greatest picture, but you get the idea. A pretty neat collectible, especially if on an envelope post marked today.
They are still available as of about noon Monday.
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If the surfing web sites are correct, it looks like we'll get a little surf from 92L. The are predicting a 3 - 4 foot surf for Tuesday.
We're going to have some big high tides today.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net
