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Message:: [QUOTE="USS656, post: 193223, member: 6641"]When do traditions begin? When I replied to a thread smullen has open it made me do a little more reading on the subject.  I think this is interesting trivia that I knew/know very little about. Coins may have been used as far back as 600BC as offerings of good luck. Here are a couple links as examples: <a href="http://collegiateway.org/news/2006-foundation-deposits" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://collegiateway.org/news/2006-foundation-deposits" rel="nofollow">http://collegiateway.org/news/2006-foundation-deposits</a> <a href="http://www.thenewportship.com/research/fr_coin.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.thenewportship.com/research/fr_coin.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.thenewportship.com/research/fr_coin.htm</a> Excerpts from the articles:  One day about 600 BC, the people of the Greek city of Ephesus gathered around a big pit in the ground. Someone important (we don't know who exactly) scattered a group of coins across the bottom of the pit, and then teams of workmen lowered several enormous stone slabs over them. These slabs were the central floor stones of what was to become the Artemision—the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus—known to later ages as one of the Seven Wonders of the World. There is a centuries-old tradition of placing coins under the mast during ship construction, and a few parallels for coins between keel and stempost.<a href="http://www.thenewportship.com/research/fr_coin_obv.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.thenewportship.com/research/fr_coin_obv.htm" rel="nofollow"></a>The coin has been identified by Edward Besly of the Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales - as a petit blanc of the Dauphin, Louis de France. Minted in the town of Crémieu between 1440 - 1456, it comes from Dauphiné, an area of south eastern France, traditionally held by the Dauphin, the eldest son of the king of France. Louis of France succeeded to the Throne of France in 1461, as Louis XI, and reigned until 1483. This type of coin was in general circulation throughout fifteenth century France. The dolphin, the symbol of the Dauphin, is found on both sides. It seems that wishing wells and coin water offerings to the gods for good luck dates back to at least the times of the Romans. Hope you found this interesting.[/QUOTE]

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