Should I have done it?

[Guest]

 

[R. Richard]

As I went I dropped a succession of old coins and pushed them down into the sand/mud. They are very worn coins from the 1860s and 1870s, mainly Emperor Napoleon III, some Italian, and a couple of Victorian Bun Pennies.

If they come to you with a Victorian Bun Penny to complain just say, "A penny for your thoughts!"

 

[Guest]

When archaeologists have to cover up a dig where they've been working, they throw in a penny or two to serve as a time-marker, so that in the future no one will think that some of the stuff they left behind are acosiated with the earlier period.

I don't think anyone would draw any sweeping historical conclusions from one or two coins found on the beach. It's far more likely they fell out of someone's pocket (or were planted) than that they're suddenly surfacing after a couple hundred years.

That's not enirely true.

There are still ships from the 17th and 18th century ships that occaisionally seem to pop up out of nowhere simply because the went down in a storm, were buried in sand and silt and then 200 years later another storm uncovers them or breaks the hull open and things start washing up on shore.

Not at all uncommon in the Carribean.

 

[oggbashan]

The Beach

Locally fossil sharks' teeth are very common. Hundreds of them...

Roman pottery and coins are found several times a year and can sometimes be picked out of the eroding sand/shale cliffs.

WWII ammunition (usually Anti-Aircraft shells) surfaces a couple of times a year and has to be destroyed by controlled explosions.

The part of the beach I salted with old coins is over a mile away from where the Roman remains are found.

Last week someone found a human leg bone. The authorities are still trying to date it. A couple of hundred years old - no one would be bothered. A couple of years old? Oh shit!

Beach combing can be fun and risky.

Og

 

[SeaCat]

Just north of me is what is called the Treasure Coast because of a number of Spanish Galleons sinking not far from shore. Every now and then someone gets lucky and finds a coin from these ships washed up on shore. That would be interesting.

Cat

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

Locally fossil sharks' teeth are very common. . .

Old wiseguys should not practise usury in their own neighbourhoood — in my opinion — especially if their teeth are loose.

 

[Halo_n_horns]

Today at a very low tide I put on my wellington boots and walked out over our beach to the edge of the sea about a kilometre below high tide mark.

As I went I dropped a succession of old coins and pushed them down into the sand/mud. They are very worn coins from the 1860s and 1870s, mainly Emperor Napoleon III, some Italian, and a couple of Victorian Bun Pennies.

The coins are so worn that they are useless for coin collectors.

I thought the coins might excite our local metal detector fans.

My wife thinks I've misled them and that I shouldn't have done it. She thinks I have been unfair to the metal detector nerds.

I think they will be pleased to find some genuine old coins instead of remains of beer cans.

What do you think? Would you be pleased to find an old coin even if it has only been there a week? Or would you feel that you have been cheated?

Og

Good way to share the wealth. I don't see anything wrong with what you did.

 

[Guest]

Locally fossil sharks' teeth are very common. Hundreds of them...

Beach combing can be fun and risky.

Og

I used to find those on the Carolina coast. Dozens a day. Found one that was broken off at the tip and on one side. By my calculations it would have been nearly 8" long whole.

 

[Lisa Denton]

With all this talk about folks revealing themselves in the moonlight, homosexual dinosaurs, caveman sex and priate treasure, this is practically a 'story ideas' thread. I hope at least one story comes out of this discussion. I'd love to see a humour story or something fun like that. BTW, Lisa, did you ever write a dirty story about me yet? (so long ago, I don't remember what the details were)

I forget also.

Maybe in chapter one you was gonna wash up on Og's beach with a map to the secret treasure (which is in reality directions to my house) and Og, bein a mad scientist and all, wants you to have sex with a lesbian dinosaur (which is really Barney the purple dinosaur in drag) so don't do it. Even if Og promises to let you wear his hat don't give in, he gets girls to do all kinds of kinky stuff with that hot hat.

Maybe some evil dranoel dragon with 8" long ........um ......... teeth will show up and you will have to beat him up and save the world, then the dragon and dinosaur can have sex (is it beastiality if they are both beasts?) and you can come to my house and dig for treasure.

And of course Og will take notes and film it all for science.

To be continued in chapter 2:


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