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 6/11/2007 2:49:24 PM
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Re: New Artifacts Added.
I think you are right that coinage in the early days was based on the weight of the metal. I've read accounts where certain types of coinage were not accepted because they were underweight. I will add to the discussion that there were various denominations of reales, 1/2, 1, 2, 4, and 8. The 8 was, as you say, the model for the silver dollar and they were in fact cut up sometimes into bits. Another fact, columns and vines in the design led to the $ dollar sign. I have a small collection of the various denominations of reales. A group of 1/2 reales dug up in South Jersey where the soil is very sandy, also several that were metal detecting finds from beaches along the Atlantic Coast. I also have a 2 real from 1776. Certainly there are lots and lots of coins in the water from 500 years or so of ships going down with all the cargo on board. Probably more in the ocean along the coasts but certainly lots in the rivers as well. With your ability to look for one thing and find something else, I would not be surprised to hear that one of these days you find a nice batch of coins while diving. And, as we would all agree, finding those great fossil teeth is about as good as it gets! Hope you enjoy your 1879 Carson City silver dollar.
 6/12/2007 12:43:56 PM
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I've added a picture of a small collection of Spanish reales under NJ Artifacts in the gallery. While they have nothing to do with fossils. it is entirely plausible that someone looking for fossils on a beach could find one of these washed up from a wreck.
 6/12/2007 3:47:46 PM
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Hey JP those are pretty cool, especially the reales on the top row. If you ever get bored looking at them I know where you can swap reales for shark teeth or native stone points.

 6/13/2007 1:00:31 PM
User is offlinejp
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Re: New Artifacts Added.
Hey BRM, I do always consider trades so we can keep that idea open. Not really bored with those pieces of 8 though. In fact, if more should cross my path I might consider trying to aquire them. I've noticed one thing that coins have over fossils and artifacts. You can have a nice bunch of coins and keep them in all in a cigar box. Fossils and artifacts tend take up a whole lot of space. I have a quick question. Do you remember the circumstances surrounding the finding of the sharpening stone you listed under Maryland artifacts?
 6/13/2007 2:41:30 PM
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Re: New Artifacts Added.

I found it on a spit of high ground along the Potomac River where a stream/swamp enters the river. It is an excellent location for a campsite and I have found some late Archaic quartz points there also. The campsite (?) is about 20 to 25 feet above normal river level and the river is over a mile wide there so it would never be in danger of flooding. The river would have provided fish and transportation and the swampy area would have provided water foul, frogs, turtles, and plant foods like cattail roots. The Potomac is brackish there so the swamp would have provided fresh water too.        I have a smaller sharpening stone made of sandstone that I found in Kentucky but it only has one groove in it.

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