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To: SunkenCiv

“In another key discovery, the wooden “step” connecting the mast to the hull was found to contain a coin from Roman Siscia (in modern-day Croatia), in line with Roman rituals for blessing a ship. The coin was made during the reign of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great and fixed the earliest possible date of the ship as A.D. 320...”

Some traditions never die...

https://en.tallink.com/blog-mystar/-/blogs/lucky-coins-under-the-keel


3 posted on 05/05/2024 5:13:30 PM PDT by MeganC ("Russians are subhuman" - posted by Kazan 8 March 2024)
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To: MeganC; SunkenCiv

Obviously doesn’t work!.........


42 posted on 05/05/2024 7:02:26 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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