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<p>[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3370680, member: 57463"][ATTACH]893974[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]893975[/ATTACH] </p><p><font face="Georgia">Mostly, writers of mysteries are not much better than the people who worked on Scooby-do. In these two books, the coins are mentioned only in passing. In <i>Repair to her Grave</i> by Sarah Graves, the coin is one-sided, as large as a cookie-cutter, so like 3 inches across and irregular. It has some kind of sun image and some kind of French inscription, but details are lacking.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">In <i>Black Jack Point</i>, the coins are part of a treasure buried by Jean Lafitte on Galveston Island. The descriptions are much better. These are silver 8-reales and gold escudos. Apparently the large 4-escudos, but the description is not detailed. The coins are dated to 1811 and 1818, just before Lafitte’s death in 1823. So, that much is realistic. But not much of the story hinges on the coins. Also, buried with them is a large emerald which gets some attention.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia">[ATTACH]893976[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font face="Georgia">Clive Cussler’s <i>Treasure</i> is about a ship of scrolls taken from the Library of Alexandria to be saved from the mobs of Christian rioters. Archaeologists find the ship and try to figure out why it is in a glacier. Among the clues are coins from the late Roman empire. One of them is identified as a gold milaresion. That series actually came from about 200 years after the looting of the library. </font></p><p><font face="Georgia">[ATTACH=full]893981[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">This challenge coin was created by the New York Police Department latent fingerprint crime scene technicians. </font></p><p><font face="Georgia">[ATTACH=full]893982[/ATTACH] </font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3370680, member: 57463"][ATTACH]893974[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]893975[/ATTACH] [FONT=Georgia]Mostly, writers of mysteries are not much better than the people who worked on Scooby-do. In these two books, the coins are mentioned only in passing. In [I]Repair to her Grave[/I] by Sarah Graves, the coin is one-sided, as large as a cookie-cutter, so like 3 inches across and irregular. It has some kind of sun image and some kind of French inscription, but details are lacking. In [I]Black Jack Point[/I], the coins are part of a treasure buried by Jean Lafitte on Galveston Island. The descriptions are much better. These are silver 8-reales and gold escudos. Apparently the large 4-escudos, but the description is not detailed. The coins are dated to 1811 and 1818, just before Lafitte’s death in 1823. So, that much is realistic. But not much of the story hinges on the coins. Also, buried with them is a large emerald which gets some attention. [ATTACH]893976[/ATTACH] Clive Cussler’s [I]Treasure[/I] is about a ship of scrolls taken from the Library of Alexandria to be saved from the mobs of Christian rioters. Archaeologists find the ship and try to figure out why it is in a glacier. Among the clues are coins from the late Roman empire. One of them is identified as a gold milaresion. That series actually came from about 200 years after the looting of the library. [ATTACH=full]893981[/ATTACH] This challenge coin was created by the New York Police Department latent fingerprint crime scene technicians. [ATTACH=full]893982[/ATTACH] [/FONT][/QUOTE]
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