Curse of Oak Island coin

It looks like ones listed on Ebay for $4.99. They must be pretty common. Whose to say someone didnt salt the mine so to speak.

 

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You never know. But if they were to salt the mine, why not use a nice large gold Spanish coin, why the small 8 cob?

 

If they were to buy an expensive gold coin the source of it would be more easily found, and they would be out a lot of money. An inexpensive(under $5) Spanish coin that is readily available would be very difficult to trace and also has the allure of pirate treasure due to its date. I am also wondering how a copper coin could survive for hundreds of years in a swamp without completely corroding.

 

Hey, now, this is reality TV. Planting a coin so it could be "found" during filming would be like...entertainment.

 

I have to say, that I thought about watching the show for about 15 secs! Then I remember that it is an unreality show on TV! there is nothing real about the sow other than the location and sometimes they are recreations of something that happened while not taping. Some where on the shows web site will be a disclaimer about what goes on.
I to have a number of books with stories of Oak island etc. But any TV show is scripted and staged. whether it is the UFO/aliens or American Pickers. The producers of that show spent almost a complete day with a friend, working out everything the stuff they would buy, and prices, the stuff they wouldn't. All this was for a segment that lasted 5 minutes. Even the guy they went to that chased them off with the shotgun was a set up! they supplied the home made keep out sign. Since his neighbor had a store bought one on nice poles. They happened to have one in the grip truck!
The ax men and that Bering sea gold ones have to be the phoniest ones out there. What they show on the commercials, would have the state, and feds and some times the police shutting them down in an eyeblink.
They need the BS, and characters along with the back stories to keep the viewers watching.
If you were running a pawn shop/coin shop would you keep that TV idiot Chumlee working for more than a week. I don't care if he was the daughters husband he would be out in the real world. It is an act! that shop employs over 50 people, Rick was on the news channels complaining about what the health care law will do to his shop.
The couple of other pawn shows didn't last long, as they didn't have as much "Drama" in them.
The episode of Bones about the money pit was pretty good, if you haven't seen it hunt it up. They did stick to the facts of the real money pit!

Just remember all reality shows are unreality shows and are "Entertainment". All you have to think of is were you work, it might be interesting for about 30 minutes. If you didn't inject stuff into it. That's why they always have writers on those shows.

 

In physics, there's something called Heisenburg's Uncertainty Principle, the thrust of which is that you unavoidably affect outcomes simply through the act of observation. I'd say there's an analogous process at work during the filming of any of this sort of program.

 

That island has fascinated many way before television shows. Six died trying to find whatever lies there, so there is something real about that show. It's not a made-up story to sell television.

Whether the TV guys salted the mine or not, that's irrelevant. I don't care about the TV show. It's the story of the island that I find interesting.

 

I'm an absolute skeptic about that island and everything that is on television. I still liked watching the show!

 

i also have been following the oak island show and agree it was a good watch but they made like 3 hours of material into a whole season. they did a lot re running the same facts they said multiply times every episode other then that i found the show and the story of Oak island fascinating. Sad part is so much stuff on tv is made more tv and isn't really what is going on it makes you question is the whole coin finding thing real i hope it is, it would add to the mystery. Also somebody mentioned before y would the coin not corroded away their is a simple answer swamps and many muddy areas all year round like the bottom of the thames trap items in them and preserve them, the metal would have been trapped with no oxygen it would have stayed as it was. They regularly find 1000s of year old remains preserved in swamps around the world even clothing is preserved !!

 

I would not be surprised if they spent more on the show than a caisson excavation would have cost.

 

"Just remember all reality shows are unreality shows and are "Entertainment"

Don't forget the Amish Mafia and the Moonshine show.

Oak Island has a fascinating history
I can't see pirates having the expertise or motivation to engineer/dig
the tunnels and traps on Oak Island.

I believe it's the work of the Knights Templar. They've built amazing structures through out their known world. Some of them still standing in this country.

 

How on earth did this get nearly 10,000 views in just one month?

 

Season 2 this fall Can't wait to see what they find

 

I feel like if they made a big discovery then it most likely already would have been publicized but that is just my opinion !!

 

What channel, date/time?

 

Thanks for the link! It answers all questions.

I wonder why the rich brothers on the show didn't read it?

 

Season premiere Tuesday Nov.4 / History Channel. Can't wait! Hope they find gold coins this time.

 

thanks.

 

First episode in the second season just aired. They id'd the coin, after they cleaned it with lemon juice and brush, turned out it was a 1652 8 maravedis.

Anyone watched?

 

Guess you and I are the only suckers @wcoins. Still the show is entertaining but can't they find anything? It's getting boring in a hurry rehashing everything ten times.