Posted on 05/18/2007 7:23:38 AM PDT by Red Badger
I was wondering where I’d lost my stuff.........
Excellent news.
Everything in that scene except for one crate was a painting.
Alas, I find myself unable to take them back to my native Nigeria and am most desirous of your help in moving the coins to America and selling them to investors.
Please let me know if this is something in which you might be able to assist me and earn a rather handosme 25% commission for your troubles?
The utmost secrecy and confidentiality is of most importance.
Please reply at yopur earliest convenience.
Yours in Christ
Attorney, Solicitor, President for Life of Nigerian 25th National Bank - Njim Nbaker.
I spent a dollar once.
LOL!!!........I wish I were smart enough to create a “virtual” bank and an account that I could send to these guys. When they opened it up to access the funds, instead of sucking out all my “money” it would suck out all theirs instead!..........
Unless it was a warship, in which case I strongly suspect the booty will be claimed by the country's government.
Yes, history loses, but even deeper than that, government policies which take the finds teach kids not to even dream of finding treasure that might be in their area, just because there would be no point.
Great. We will soon have millions of “new” citizens living below the poverty level. They can use the gold.
You can bet that multiple governments will enter their ‘claims’ any time there is a find of this magnitude. Vultures.
If she is HMS Sussex, as I suspect, then she is indeed a warship, and a war grave to boot. This is apparently why this salvor entered into a negotiation with the British government and has agreed to spilt the cargo in exchange for permission to conduct the salvage operation. I believe that this is also what was done with the sister ship of HMS Belfast, lost during WWII enroute to Murmansk with a load of gold bullion.
I earned a dollar once.
Wow, what a find.
I wonder what type of coins they are..all 400 years old and uncirculated?
On the other hand minted coins looked like crap in the 1600s, understandably. Like this one:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=ViewItem&item=160098518978
Jihaded crew?
This is hugh. I love stories like this.
I met an Idolerator once...
I made a dollar once.
The gov’t will take it if you ain’t keerful......
Too late! ;-)
The funny thing is the record breaking bounty from the shipwreck will probably be similar (or maybe less) than the proceeds of Pirates of the Caribbean III at the box office.
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