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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dafydd, post: 26664214, member: 86815&quot;]I was moving a little off track with the last couple of posts so here is a coin I picked up on my recent trip to Florida.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1701246[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1701247[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t do better than this write up by [USER=4910]@willieboyd2[/USER] and I urge you to visit it.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-guy-named-joe.370460/#post-5143203" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-guy-named-joe.370460/#post-5143203">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-guy-named-joe.370460/#post-5143203</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The story can be amplified by this book that I picked up a couple of years before the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1701248[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Clive&#039;s reputation did not survive in fact During the 1770s, Thomas Paine used Clive as a symbol of British tyranny and corruption. For the American colonists, the East India Company’s actions in India served as a &quot;cautionary tale&quot; of what happens when a distant government allows corporate interests to rule without restraint. William Dalrymple reframed Clive as an &quot;unstable sociopath&quot; who managed a dangerously unregulated private company. The focus has shifted from his military &quot;genius&quot; at the Battle of Plassey (1757) to the fact that the victory was largely secured through bribery and political treachery.</p><p>About 20 years ago I read a biography on Clive by Robert Harvey titled &quot;Clive- The Life and Death of a British Emperor&quot;.</p><p>Having been taught at School that Clive saved the British Indian Empire from the French and was a hero albeit somewhat flawed, the biography was an eye opener for me as Harvey painted the picture of corrupt, hypocritical, greedy, ruthless sociopath.</p><p>So why did I want this coin? Simple, a pedigree to a (in)famous owner, a controversial salvage challenged through the International Courts, and I find it an attractive coin and it fits in with my New World colonial shipwreck collection.</p><p>I did a trade on 30 Morgan dollars that I had acquired over the years at probably todays melt value. I was pleased with the deal as this coin holds more interest to me than a pocket full of Morgan Dollars.</p><p>Here is an image of the previous owner!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1701254[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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