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The fancy lies right here....you can see the ship channel dredging just missed it. While everyone is at Atlantis hunting fresh drops and I phones, I'm in a kyak getting onion bottles, cob coins, and yup....snorkeling this crazy ass scary as shit spot. Had to see if evidence of the fancy is there.....like I said before....there an ancient sailing ships wreckage there mixed in with modern debri....I think it truly is bits of the fancy for my own reasons, and anyone else can go check too.....I have my reason for believing....ill keep that to myself.
Interesting stuff. You seem to be on a good project there. Just handling items that may be connected to the pirate and the FANCY is a treasure in itself.
I would not be surprised there are small caches still waiting discovery in the Bahamas. new England coast of Devon and Cornwall and even in Ireland.
contrary to academic beliefs and it had been repeated annoyingly all to often most of such pirate treasure was gambled away in gambling dens or spent on getting drunk in taverns or spent in brothels.
To some decree some of that is true. but it not always the case. We are talking about the days before bank as we know it. So an average jack tar sailor had carry his wealth on him. there was no loyalty among thieves and there was always chances of being robbed by your own crew members.
So some I believe indeed as circumstances dictated had families and wanted to hide their wealth to bring SOME money home. The pirate crews money equal to was life time of sailors wages. So they had considerable money from the piracy.
Some indeed would endeavor to hid their share while visiting various ports. due precarious life many of those pirates who hid there money was killed in drunken skirmishes and failed in one way of another to recover their hidden stash.
For the crew of the fancy had a very mixed fate. just like life to day. for example many years i worked in the mining game.
For Me it raised me out of poverty led me onto the road to wealth. While there are others I started out with is as still as broke as when I started with them. Wasting all their money on wine women and booze and everything in between.
So what academics fail to see is all people are different. instead they stereotype all pirates being drunken hoodlums with no thoughts of tomorrow. For many yes that was the case. But for some they saw piracy a better opportunity to better themselves.
In the case of the crew of the Fancy some as we know ended up on a hangman's noose others blew their money. others made secret successful lives in new England later and others hiding their cache died during the violence of the times or succumbed to the many diseases we take for granted today.
Making an estimate of possible un recovered caches from a crew of 120 . maybe 10 scattered caches Bahamas new England and UK.
Then there is the possible secondary caches coins being passed onto other parties for goods and services hiding them for their own reasons.
I do not think a large cache will be found but the possibility of coin spills or small caches connected to Captain Henry Avery and the Fancy is not impossible.
Crow
