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| 1927 Gold Toned Quarter. |
This 1927 quarter was found many years ago. It is the only silver coin that I've found that has developed such a bright gold toning, which seems to be increasing. I don't know how or why that happened.
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| Reverse of Same 1927 Gold Toned Quarter. |
The coloring in the photo is accurate - no digital editing or anything.
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The possible discovery of HMS Endeavour off the east coast of the US has been hailed as a “hugely significant moment” in Australian history, but researchers have warned they are yet to “definitively” confirm whether the wreck has been located.
On Wednesday Fairfax Media reported archaeologists from the Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project, or Rimap, had pinpointed the final resting place of the famous vessel in which Captain James Cook reached Australia in 1770.
The ship was later used by the British royal navy in the American war of Independencee and was eventually scuttled with a dozen other vessels off Newport, Rhode Island in 1778....
Here is the link for the rest of the article.
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The alumni magazine from one of the schools I got a degree from had an article about two returned class rings .
One took a long journey. It was first lost while the owner was fishing back in the 1970s. He took off the ring and put it into a vest pocket while he tied a lure. It was found years later, given to the daughter of the lady who found it. She couldn't find the owner. The ring was eventually given to an official of the university. The owner was eventually found, decades after it was lost.
Another ring went missing. Evidently it was stolen by a college room mate who gave it to a girl. Eventually the girl gave it to the president of the school alumni association, who couldn't find the owner for some time. After some time other university contacts were able to identify the owner, which lead to the ring's return. That was before facebook etc.
My mother lost her college class ring when planting flowers at a grave site. She thinks she laid it on the stone while working the dirt. When she returned it was gone.
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The Dawson City Museum in Yukon is about to get an overhaul that will allow new exhibits, displaying artifacts only ever held in storage.
It will be the museum's first major renovation in about three decades.
"Because our displays change very little, a lot of the acquisitions over the last 30 years have never been on display," said Alex Somerville, the museum's executive director...
Here is that link.
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You've probably seen about New Bern, North Carolina on the news. I did a little (very little) metal detecting there back in the 1980s when I was on a business trip to the Naval Air Rework Facility. I buried a knife that I used as a digging tool by a hotel light post in case I returned. I never did.
Happy hunting,
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