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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 944688, member: 19065&quot;]<b></b></p><p><b>A SoCal / Nantucket Native!</b> :thumb: ...and I can add, keeping this numismatically topical and geographically relevant, that when the California gold rush began in the 1840s-1850s, many Nantucket whaling vessels were abandoned in California wharves as the whalers took to the gold fields in search of the next big thing... add to that the reasoning that many of the laborers on board whaling vessels had absolutely miserable lives/jobs and were paid a horrendous pittance of a wage for their work and months spent at sea.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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