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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2827443, member: 10461&quot;]Yes, you&#039;re right.&nbsp; Usually it was <i>underneath</i> the mast.&nbsp; But I&#039;ve heard of them being nailed <i>to</i> the mast, as well.&nbsp; I suspect both were true, though I have no documentary evidence for the latter except for the (fictional) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby_Dick_Coin" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby_Dick_Coin" rel="nofollow">citation in <i>Moby Dick</i></a>. </p><p><br /></p><p>Melville probably got that from real life, though, I would think, unless he was confusing the ancient tradition of a coin <i>beneath</i> a mast somehow.&nbsp; He did spend some time at sea aboard a real whaling ship.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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