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A Medieval Coin in New England Soil
Beachcombing 'blog ^
| September 11, 2010
| eponymous blogger
Posted on 09/12/2010 3:35:25 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
It was only when the coin was later identified as Viking that the game heated up. By then poor Mellegren -- who, Beachcombing must say was someone with a reputation for integrity -- had passed away.
Beachcombing has no illusions about much of the nonsense written about pre-Columbian visits to North America. But in this case he would give a thumb and a half followed by two cheers and three quarters. There is a good chance that this really is what it seems: A European coin that found its way to North America in the twelfth century. Minted in Norway, spent in Iceland, gambled in Greenland, traded in Newfoundland, carried to Goddard where it fell through a hole in a brave's pocket.
(Excerpt) Read more at beachcombing.wordpress.com ...
TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: ancientnavigation; animalhusbandry; coin; coins; epigraphyandlanguage; godsgravesglyphs; greenland; helixmakemineadouble; iceland; mainecoon; mainecooncat; middleages; navigation; newfoundland; norway; norwegianforestcat; renaissance; scandinavia; thevikings; vikingamerica; vikings
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posted on
09/12/2010 3:35:30 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; 3AngelaD; ...
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posted on
09/12/2010 3:39:37 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
L'Anse aux Meadows site:freerepublic.com
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posted on
09/12/2010 3:51:53 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
To: SunkenCiv
Beach-combing season here in Maine is very, very short. Give the guy a break already!
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posted on
09/12/2010 3:56:31 PM PDT
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Daffynition
("Life Imitates Bacon, but Bacon does not imitate Life. Bacon IS life." ~paulycy)
To: Daffynition
LOVE the picture - had lots of times like that many winters.
To: SunkenCiv
Interesting site. Can’t wait to read its linked “Adult breast-feeding in the Renaissance and Early Modern world.”
To: majormaturity
Yeah. After the frostbite sets in ....fortunately you're only a step away from the ER.
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posted on
09/12/2010 4:29:36 PM PDT
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Daffynition
("Life Imitates Bacon, but Bacon does not imitate Life. Bacon IS life." ~paulycy)
To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
;’) I nipple suspected any connection between ‘em.
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posted on
09/12/2010 4:34:32 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
To: Daffynition
Same here. :’) Today was the first really nice day in a couple of weeks.
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posted on
09/12/2010 4:36:38 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
09/12/2010 4:45:43 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
("Life Imitates Bacon, but Bacon does not imitate Life. Bacon IS life." ~paulycy)
To: Daffynition
On Thanksgiving day in 1989 I found 300 pieces of 8 doing just this.
To: Daffynition
Hey, maybe’s it’s *Viking* chewing gum...
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posted on
09/12/2010 5:11:22 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
To: screaminsunshine
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posted on
09/12/2010 5:12:08 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
To: SunkenCiv
To: screaminsunshine
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posted on
09/12/2010 6:27:18 PM PDT
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Daffynition
("Life Imitates Bacon, but Bacon does not imitate Life. Bacon IS life." ~paulycy)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
09/12/2010 6:35:41 PM PDT
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Daffynition
("Life Imitates Bacon, but Bacon does not imitate Life. Bacon IS life." ~paulycy)
To: SunkenCiv
I think I can see a Denver mintmark.
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posted on
09/12/2010 7:00:05 PM PDT
by
Oatka
("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
To: SunkenCiv
Well, knock me over with a feather! Nordic? Just looking, I would ghavwe though illegal immignt.
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posted on
09/12/2010 8:18:45 PM PDT
by
ApplegateRanch
(Islam: A Satanically Transmitted Disease spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus)
To: ApplegateRanch; SunkenCiv
I would ghavwe though illegal immignt.Beware of kittehs on the keys.
(Ahem!) I would have thought illegal immigrant.
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posted on
09/12/2010 8:35:39 PM PDT
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ApplegateRanch
(Islam: A Satanically Transmitted Disease spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus)
To: SunkenCiv
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09/12/2010 10:58:04 PM PDT
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Beowulf9
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