XD look what I've got!!

[essayel]

It's a



I can't afford a piece of eight, dammit, but this is close enough to gladden my little heart. As you can see it has had a very adventurous life. It was minted in Bolivia at the silver mines of Potosi and should be much, much bigger. I think it's supposed to look like this but I suspect the coin clippers have been at work. AND the poor thing got sunk and then washed up on a beach in Cornwall. There's a whole story in that little coin!

In other news, my car has stopped working. I'm hoping I just need to change the battery!

Also Gwent Young People's Theatre are having a benefit show on Sunday with past members attending so I'm going along to give them a cheer. This despite the fact that Gareth David-Lloyd's band, Blue Gillespie inc. Gareth David-Lloyd, is playing. Nice acting Gary, but the music is a leetle too progressive for me.

Comments

[metallumai.livejournal.com]

A. Wow!

B. Cars are like that, sneaky and lazy. And hostile.It probably wants a bath or something.

C. Wish I were there. Those kids were wonderful.

[essayel.livejournal.com]

It will be interesting and I expect it'll end up on Youtube. Just the word that Yantoe will be there to low mournfully into the microphone should bring in some folk who wouldn't otherwise bother, but I really wish that you could join us.

[clmiles.livejournal.com]

Wow, that coin is very cool! I would love to know the stories it could tell. Simply fasinating!

[essayel.livejournal.com]

All the hands it's passed through. And they are dust but it's still here. Makes you think doesn't it!

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Wow! A numismatic fangirl! Never met one of those before ;)

[essayel.livejournal.com]

I'm using it as a sample of 'treasure' for our pirate exhibition. I couldn't find one to borrow under circumstance we could afford, and I couldn't afford to buy a really good example - I have to pay then claim the money back. But this one is perfectly good enough to display with all the supporting material.

Yes I am a bit of a fangirl, particularly of republican and 1st century AD Roman coinage and earlier Greek ones. But if money was no object, and one of the five became available, I'd like this (http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d41/Essayel/Miscellaneous/Ataiascoin.jpg)! I've been writing a novel about this guy for a couple of years now.

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

(Late reply is late)

I'm using it as a sample of 'treasure' for our pirate exhibition
Please tell me that The Gay Pirates song will also feature in your exhibition... ;)

I've been writing a novel about this guy for a couple of years now.
Cool! I'd definitely read that! I never quite got into numismatics at uni, I did British prehistory mainly, but I did do a paper on Scythian princely burials at one stage.

[wulfila.livejournal.com]

The coin is lovely! But I'm sorry to hear about your car. Was it the battery indeed?

[essayel.livejournal.com]

We charged the battery and it was working last night. Fingers crossed for this morning.

[britalone.livejournal.com]

Cool! Where did you get them from?

[essayel.livejournal.com]

It's one coin that I scanned twice and pasted one into the other's image. It came from a place in Cornwall where they wash up on the beach.

:D I'm such a kid.

[britalone.livejournal.com]

Oooh, where in Cornwall? I'll have to go hunting when I get home!

[essayel.livejournal.com]

Rill Cove on the Lizard. The wreck is well known but covered in sand. Some of the coins are in fantastic condition but I couldn't afford one of those :( But this will do :D