Thanks Jim, Generac bases how I'm doing a lot on what the dealers tell them as well. These are dealers that we've been working with for years, so building a relationship based on trust is the key to success here.
I'm going to be speaking with Micheal from CMD later this morning, I'll let him know that you and I are still in touch.
Er-ah-um do a refresh on the grey matter please "who is Michael " I know at least- .........bloody hell me ran out of fingers.Thanks Jim, Generac bases how I'm doing a lot on what the dealers tell them as well. These are dealers that we've been working with for years, so building a relationship based on trust is the key to success here.
Hope you're doing well these days.
Dave Good morning and congratulations on the raise. Rum all around on Dave's tab.....Thanks Bill and Jim for the votes of confidence.It did go well, my manager decided to call me instead of a Skype meeting. I'm very fortunate to have a manager who's close in age and with similar work experiences, so we're both on the same level when it comes to how our dealers need to be handled. Just six months in and I'm already getting a raise.
Who cares I can swim
Pretty much every region of the country is prone to one disaster or another .......Floods,Tornadoes,Fires,Earthquakes etc.
I agree Bill... drinks all round, I'm buying! Thankfully, there's only 5 of us here this morning.Dave Good morning and congratulations on the raise. Rum all around on Dave's tab.....
Dave deleted my Acct. in 2013 after I got hacked.Just thought you might remember Micheal, but maybe you'd already signed-off by then?
I read the article a while back, and thought it was a pretty cool discovery.Just thought I'd share this interesting Canadian article from 2021.
Archaeological dig in Newfoundland unearths what could be Canada's oldest English coin
https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/archeol...oMdgWSg1Qea7xKvgRHDVDiLIoe2jV_dOZgwKhHrCB4f9E
CUPIDS, N.L. -
An archaeological fieldworker excavating a site in eastern Newfoundland has unearthed what could be the oldest English coin found in Canada.
William Gilbert, head archeologist and supervisor at the Cupids Cove Plantation Provincial Historic Site, says one of his colleagues found the silver coin in September, adding that research has confirmed it was minted sometime between 1493 and 1499. "It's important because it sparks your imagination," Gilbert said in an interview Wednesday. The coin, he added, is more than a century older than Cupids, founded in 1610. "You just have to wonder when you look at this thing: how many hands did it pass through?"
Known as a Henry VII 'half groat,' or two penny piece, the nickel-sized coin was minted in Canterbury, England, more than 500 years ago. Gilbert said he came to that conclusion after consulting Paul Berry, former curator of the Bank of Canada's Currency Museum. The coin features a stylized portrait of King Henry VII and a Latin inscription that says, "Henry, by the grace of God, King of England and France." The other side features a cross and the king's motto, also in Latin: "I have made God my helper." The coin was found under 20 centimetres of soil near the northeast corner of the excavation, just beyond the remains of what was once a wooden palisade. "You can picture kind of a Wild West fort arrangement," said Gilbert.
Settled by Bristol, England, merchant John Guy, the Cupids plantation is the site of the oldest English settlement in Canada. The English colony at Jamestown, Va., was settled in 1607. By 1613, Guy and a small group of colonists had built several structures, including Canada's first sawmill and brewery. Meanwhile, research on the coin is ongoing. It is expected to be put on display in time for the historic site's 2022 tourist season. Gilbert discovered the former plantation in 1995 and it was declared a historic site in May 2011. By that time, more than 150,000 artifacts had been unearthed at the site, which now includes an interactive museum known as the Cupids Legacy Centre. The community is on the west side of Conception Bay, N.L., about an hour's drive west of St. John's.
"It is incredible to imagine that this coin was minted in England and was lost in Cupids over a hundred years later," the province's tourism minister, Steve Crocker, said in a statement. "It links the story of the early European exploration in the province and the start of English settlement." In 2001, an Elizabethan coin -- dated 1560-1561 -- was found at the same site, and at the time it was considered the oldest English coin yet found in Canada.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 10, 2021.
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Dave, Neat story. I don't quite understand why they get all excited about finding a coin that predates the site by 100 or more years. I found a Chinese cash coin in an old school yard it was circa 1666-1721 since the coins weren't legal tender they were used based on my research by the Chinese community among themselves. Back in the day money was scare so it kept getting reused either until worn out or lost which is what happened in this case.Just thought I'd share this interesting Canadian article from 2021.
Archaeological dig in Newfoundland unearths what could be Canada's oldest English coin
https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/archeol...oMdgWSg1Qea7xKvgRHDVDiLIoe2jV_dOZgwKhHrCB4f9E
CUPIDS, N.L. -
An archaeological fieldworker excavating a site in eastern Newfoundland has unearthed what could be the oldest English coin found in Canada.
William Gilbert, head archeologist and supervisor at the Cupids Cove Plantation Provincial Historic Site, says one of his colleagues found the silver coin in September, adding that research has confirmed it was minted sometime between 1493 and 1499. "It's important because it sparks your imagination," Gilbert said in an interview Wednesday. The coin, he added, is more than a century older than Cupids, founded in 1610. "You just have to wonder when you look at this thing: how many hands did it pass through?"
Known as a Henry VII 'half groat,' or two penny piece, the nickel-sized coin was minted in Canterbury, England, more than 500 years ago. Gilbert said he came to that conclusion after consulting Paul Berry, former curator of the Bank of Canada's Currency Museum. The coin features a stylized portrait of King Henry VII and a Latin inscription that says, "Henry, by the grace of God, King of England and France." The other side features a cross and the king's motto, also in Latin: "I have made God my helper." The coin was found under 20 centimetres of soil near the northeast corner of the excavation, just beyond the remains of what was once a wooden palisade. "You can picture kind of a Wild West fort arrangement," said Gilbert.
Settled by Bristol, England, merchant John Guy, the Cupids plantation is the site of the oldest English settlement in Canada. The English colony at Jamestown, Va., was settled in 1607. By 1613, Guy and a small group of colonists had built several structures, including Canada's first sawmill and brewery. Meanwhile, research on the coin is ongoing. It is expected to be put on display in time for the historic site's 2022 tourist season. Gilbert discovered the former plantation in 1995 and it was declared a historic site in May 2011. By that time, more than 150,000 artifacts had been unearthed at the site, which now includes an interactive museum known as the Cupids Legacy Centre. The community is on the west side of Conception Bay, N.L., about an hour's drive west of St. John's.
"It is incredible to imagine that this coin was minted in England and was lost in Cupids over a hundred years later," the province's tourism minister, Steve Crocker, said in a statement. "It links the story of the early European exploration in the province and the start of English settlement." In 2001, an Elizabethan coin -- dated 1560-1561 -- was found at the same site, and at the time it was considered the oldest English coin yet found in Canada.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 10, 2021.
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Jim, Are those from your UK detecting trips. Gotta love those hammered silvers!
Yes, here's a few more, not all hammered in the mitts, a few other silvers newer and older-Romans.
