See post 56, there was a picture of 101 coins sent to Brent and Queens Jewels only had 51 coins
I stand corrected. Thanks for the update. If that's true everywhere I can breathe a sigh of relief...
Forensics be jammin' a brother up. I can understand why people commit crimes out of greed. But why would someone commit a crime when the evidence has already been documented in images? As they say, the perfect crime is one where it is never known that a crime has occurred. And what would the total value be for those 51 coins? Unless they are worth a million a piece, the risk doesn't seem anywhere close to worth it.
My cousin was an original investor with Mel Fisher. He went down and dived with his son before his sons death. He dove the wreck often. He did very well on his investment and donated a large portion to a museum for tax reasons. The museum sold it. I really enjoyed handling the gold coins and he gave me some papered 8 reales .Part of his take were emeralds which he traded back for coins. Said the emeralds looked like melted coke bottles!
Hard to say, you might be right about the state making it sound worse. Guess we’ll find out as more news comes out.
Speaking of artifacts 'on the side' Ive been watching a '1881 Swiss Fribourg Shooting Thaler' silver coin on eBay ($10000!!!) from the estate of Mendle Peterson that was recovered from the wreck of the 'Annie E. Smale' (Pt. Reyes California , we never dove her). Comes with COA . Not to be repitious but I've told the story from when I was hanging out at Port Royal after a sailboat delivery in the early 1990'S(?). There was a construction company (several brothers from Miami) repairing the steel docks at the marina and got to know them pretty well. I'd watch their bubbles out of boredom and occassionly the diver would wander 'offshore' (after the Jamaican tender was sent elsewhere). Later they told me when one of them went to sell a shoebox of pieces of eight at coin shops in Miami the owners would tell them someone else had been in selling coins of the same vintage. They figured out who it was out as he was staying at the same hotel/marina and was one of the MIT archaelogist that was part of the dig at Port Royal. Guess he was doing a little 'side work' paying off his student debt ?. Kinda funny as Marx was part of the dig and the government accused him of stealing artifacts and it turned out to be government officials in later investigations.
