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Toward the bottom of page 8, 1c5d posted on the Teylers Museum in Haarlem, Netherlands. I would like to add this for context...This museum is comparable to the American Smithsonian in terms of the rarity of the coins it possesses. This link contains a handful of Dutch Republic gold coins from the Teylers, every one being either unique, or at most 3 known: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/in...tch_republic Those are the rare gold types of just one of the seven provinces, so I expect they have many dozens of coins which are the only known example, or one of just two or three known. Not sure if these are openly displayed (their catalog is available online, which is where the photos come from ... not a visit). Edited by tdziemia
01/25/2025 08:12 am
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Surprised that we do not yet have a contribution yet on Mel Fisher's Treasure Museum! I'm visiting my wife's family in central Florida, and the weather was too crummy for going to the beach, so we checked it out.  Map of local shipwrecks:  It's quite a nice museum, with a long film of the family history in the sea salvage/treasure hunting business, and broadly covers some of the history and the many types of artifacts found on the wrecks (weaponry in particular I found interesting), though of course my photos in the next few posts will focus on the gold and silver! Edited by tdziemia
01/25/2025 4:19 pm
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Thx for the context on the Teylers Museum @tdz and looking forward to seeing some stacks of precious metals from FL!
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Several rooms into the museum, my eye was immediately drawn to the display case below, but it was also surrounded by a number of other small cases with related materials.  So, this display of copper ingots was in the "main" case  But this far bling-ier display of gold ingots was in its own case a few feet away ...  Likewise for some nicely curated displays of certain silver ingots:   Edited by tdziemia
01/25/2025 4:18 pm
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On to the coins! I found this picture of how badly encrusted/agglomerated salvage coins can be quite interesting:  And the explanatory material on how they dealt with that:   |
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"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
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Never mind, I mixed up the electrodes. I can see however the use of stainless steel anodes instead of graphite. It prevents CO2 formation at the anode. Of course, a platinum anode would be even better, but I don't think most people have slab of that metal sitting around.  |
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If you ever are in Madrid, you must visit the Museo Casa de La Moneda. This is probably one of the most extensive numismatic museums in the world. Free entry!
The have an enormous collection, including life size screw and steam presses. You could spend an entire day there.
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"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
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The Museum of the Bank of Cape Verde is located in the capital city of Praia... Outstanding! |
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The Royal Regalia Museum in Bandar Seri Begawan (Brunei) is free to get into and fortunately has most exhibits listed in English, but is woefully short on material interesting to the traveling numismatist. The vast majority of this museum is gifts given to the Sultan from various countries and civic groups around the world. The only coin-related display was this image of the new sultan's first coin. See here for the coin that it replaced: https://goccf.com/t/261670&whichpage=15#4463109 Non-flash photography is possible in most of the museum, but there are a couple rooms for which no picture-taking is allowed. Maybe if we sent the Sultan one of our CCF tokens, it would be put on display!   "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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Thank you for sharing! Quote:
Maybe if we sent the Sultan one of our CCF tokens, it would be put on display!  |
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