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Fantastic! Thank you for sharing.  |
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Sorry about the delay in replying. The collection in Congleton Museum also includes three hoards which are imaginatively displayed in their basement area. We also visited Grosvenor Museum in Chester, in September, who have a very interesting collection of Romano-British pieces, some of which we were actually allowed to handle. I'll have to scroll back through my photos to see if I've saved any. We'll be going to Manchester Museum at some point and I shall try to improve my photo-skills, glare from cabinet lighting permitting!
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No worries @spy! Please just post pics when you have a chance to hunt them down. I visited the Kauai Museum last year and am only now getting a chance to post pictures of interest to travelling numismatists. Entry is $15 and non-flash photography is permitted. The guiding statement for the Museum is a Hawaiian chant which translates as, "Grant us the knowledge from above, the knowledge hidden in the chants." The chant was originally performed by students at the beginning of class to request knowledge and wisdom from the ancestral deities to accomplish the task at hand (more info here: https://samxumusic.wixsite.com/hawa...ts/e-ho-mai). There are a couple exhibits that were numismatic-focused or at least adjacent. One dealt with the 1879 Silver Certificate Banknotes issued by the the Kingdom of Hawai'i. Not too many were produced and very few survive and they are highly sought after. Interestingly, the American Bank Note Company reprinted the different denominations in 1995 using the original engraved plates. Here is an example of the $500 note:  There was also a lei constructed of Hawaiian/Kalakaua coins. Five quarters (called "hapaha") and one half dollar (called "hapalua) were used.  "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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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!
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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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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Excellent! |
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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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Very interesting! |
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"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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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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