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| Philip V Half Reale Showing Mint Mark and Partial Date. |
Since I have my close-up photo system working well I decided to go back and photograph finds that I was never able to photograph so well.
While using the system I get a better look at old finds and document them in the process.
Above is a half reale that I found on a very cold day in December of 1989. I told that story before. It was freezing. I actually hit ice on a bridge on 95 north. I was going to my parents for Christmas and was traveling from Fort Lauderdale to Palm Coast and stopped for a short hunt at John Brooks. The short hunt turned up several cobs including the one shown above. You can clearly see the OMJ, and the 17 and part of the next 1 in the date.
You don't often get that much of the mint mark and date on a half reale, especially if it is a beach find.
Below is the reverse of the same cob.
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| Reverse of 171? half reale shown above. |
Below is one more half reale found on the same hunt.
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| Half Reale Found at John Brooks in 1989. |
You can see bits of the monogram in the photo above. It is another Philip V cob.
There are traces of rust on both of these. More on the second one. I didn't really see it as well before. Also you can see bits of shell attached.
Neither of these have been cleaned and remain pretty much as found.
Now that I have good pictures of the original found condition, I might clean them a little.
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| Reverse of Same Philip V Half Reale. |
I'm sure the cross will show better if I play with the lighting. Nonetheless, you can tell it is the type of cross found on cobs minted in Mexico.
There is more sand sticking to this side. I'd say some of it got cleaned off as the cob was washed around in the surf before being deposited on the beach.
As I've said before, cobs found on the beach are often way under their original weight.
I'm glad I had these labeled with the date and place of the find. Always a good idea.
I'll have more cob photos in the near future.
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There is more sand sticking to this side. I'd say some of it got cleaned off as the cob was washed around in the surf before being deposited on the beach.
As I've said before, cobs found on the beach are often way under their original weight.
I'm glad I had these labeled with the date and place of the find. Always a good idea.
I'll have more cob photos in the near future.
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A study into the use of tobacco has yielded some interesting findings including dating the practice to around 4,000 years ago – about 1,500 years older than previously thought. The study, “Evidence of Tobacco from a Late Archaic Smoking Tube Recovered from the Flint River site in southeastern North America”, has been undertaken by various researchers and was led by Dr. Stephen B. Carmody , Troy University (Ala.) assistant professor of anthropology.
“For the past eight or nine years, I have been exploring pipe use, pipe-smoked plants, and the use of tobacco here in the eastern woodlands of North America,” said Dr. Carmody. “We have made several interesting finds. Until recently, the earliest evidence for the use of tobacco was discovered in a pipe that was approximately 2,500 years old, dating to what we refer to as the Early Woodland Period.”
Here is the link for more of that article.
Happy hunting,
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