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Edited by mrwiskers
11/01/2023 11:36 am
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...heading WSW from Mar's Bay Settlement, Bahamas, 1300 miles across the Gulf of Mexico to Tampico, Mexico, we travel overland to the site of the New World's 1st mint: Mexico City, where this little odd-shaped 1/2 real cob was struck...  Edited by mrwiskers
11/01/2023 12:23 pm
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From Cuba to Canada!  2008 Canada Dollar (Loonie)  Just five more loonies for you all to suffer.  |
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...some nice Canadian loonies, jbuck ... but now we board the trusty puddle-jumper & take off for an arduous 763 mile journey, SSW to Brisbane, Australia ...  |
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some nice Canadian loonies, jbuck Thank you!  |
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leaving Australia from Mackay, we fly ENE 8951 miles across the pacific to Chimbote, Peru ... then to Lima, where this little 1/2 real was struck in the early days of that Spanish colonial mint, under the supervision of the famous assayer/mint-master Alonzo de Rincon, known for the better-looking cobs he produced...  Edited by mrwiskers
11/01/2023 4:30 pm
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...Leaving the beautiful coastal city of Lima, Peru, we make the perilous overland journey, 906 miles over the rugged mountainous terrain, into Bolivia, to one of the highest cities in the world (elev.: 13,420 ft.), Potosi, Bolivia. Once part of the Vice royalty of Peru (Spanish colonial times), Potosi sits on "Cera Rica" mountain, the largest deposit of silver known in it's day. Potosi was a beautiful, booming city in that day, one of the largest cities in the know world. the Potosi mint is the longest producing mint in the New World, being in operation since 1574 ... here's a later, early 1600's, example of mint production, under the infamous assayer Tapia ... dyslexic, his work contains many anomalies ... notice on this cob that there is the letter 'Z' in place if a Roman Numeral II, where the denomination is placed to the right of the sheild ...  |
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From Bolivia, let's go north to Brazil where we find this 1825 20 reis c/s over 40 reis:   Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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11/01/2023 5:01 pm
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Brazil to Canada 2010 Lucky Loonie  |
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Another nice loonie, jbuck! From Canada across the Beaufort Sea and the East Siberian Sea to Siberia, Russia (USSR) - 1989 1 Rouble:  |
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.Nice rouble, Rob ... ..now, we're headed from Russia, port city of Vilyuchinsk, Siberia, out the Bering sea, almost 6000 miles south through the Pacific, to the warm, sunny Cook Islands, where swim suits are apparently optional ... (fashion accessory added...)  |
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...leaving Cook Islands, heading 5830 miles NNE to Panama City, Panama, home to this little coin ...  |
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A short journey north brings us to the tropical paradise of Costa Rica, with its sloths, bananas and a 2007 25-Colon piece!  ... plus one of the three types of 'Tyvek' note ever issued for circulation:  |
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Just trying to find a way back to Canada.  |
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