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Boldido
05-10-2006, 05:55 PM
I know it may seem hard to believe from my posting style, but as lawyers go, I'm a pretty nice guy. I have a friend who is an attorney who has asked numerous favors of me over the years. He is about fifteen or twenty years older than I am. I never really thought twice about helping him out. If I can help someone out I usually do it, besides, this guy is very nice and really interesting.

Before he was an attorney he was a treasure hunter with Mel Fisher from the Keys. He was working for Fisher when Fisher found the Atocha and the Margarita. His stories are fascinating. As some of you know, I love scuba diving and love wreck diving in particular.

Today he had his secretary ask me to come over to the office. When I got there he handed me an envelope that felt heavy on one side. When I opened it there was a nice note and an 8 reale piece, you may know it better as a "piece of eight". My friend brought it up from the wreck of the Spanish Galleon Santa Margarita in 1975 where it had layed for 353 years.

I have never owned a piece of history before and I have to confess that I am awestruck. When Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence, this was sitting on the ocean floor. When Abraham Lincoln was assasinated this was sitting on the ocean floor...well, you get the idea.
http://www.newworldtreasures.com/images/2269.jpg

This is what it looks like, although not quite so detailed.

Harlock
05-10-2006, 05:58 PM
That's awesome, Boldido. I think you owe someone a nice bottle of scotch come Christmas. Enjoy your piece of history!

Jeff Brady
05-10-2006, 06:00 PM
I don't know what any of that means. Could you -- Oooh, shiny!

Very cool indeed.

Solaris
05-10-2006, 06:14 PM
Wow, that is so cool! I hope you get it insured right away, though. And I don't know if you want to keep it in a safety deposit box and just show photos of it on your wall, or if you want to keep it on the wall or something... just be careful. :)

howyadoin
05-10-2006, 06:25 PM
That's definitely fuckin' cool, alright.

Jonah Weiland
05-10-2006, 06:28 PM
I've got nothing eloquent to add, just that it's cool and I'm rather jealous!

Boldido
05-10-2006, 06:38 PM
It one thing to touch a piece of history, but to know the guy that brought it off the ocean floor is amazing.

When I asked him why he became a lawyer, he has a really good reason. He told me that he has had a lot more friends die while treasure hunting than practicing law.

howyadoin
05-10-2006, 06:52 PM
When I asked him why he became a lawyer, he has a really good reason. He told me that he has had a lot more friends die while treasure hunting than practicing law.Oh, the appalling injustice!

(A)//(E)
05-10-2006, 06:55 PM
wow, thats really neat!

Winslow
05-10-2006, 06:57 PM
That's very cool Boldido . . .

Puma
05-10-2006, 07:52 PM
wow, I just love old coins and that is amazing!

Michael P
05-10-2006, 08:02 PM
Hopefully you're not turning into a skeleton by moonlight now...

berk
05-10-2006, 09:34 PM
Even the pictures look heavy, in both senses of the word; I can only imagine how it must feel to see them and hold them for real, let alone to have received them as a gift like that, from the very person who retrieved them from the ocean's floor.

Heavy metal, indeed.

Athena Bast
05-11-2006, 12:00 AM
ooooooooh :D

Rachel Grey
05-11-2006, 01:03 AM
Nice stuff! Very cool indeed. :)

gary bolt
05-11-2006, 01:09 AM
Wow, that really is cool. Lucky you.