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Pirate Dubloons, Set of 5 Replica Coins

For centuries, pirates sailed the Seven Seas searching for treasure, risking life and limb to catch even a glimpse of gold. Driven by an insatiable appetite for adventure, these maritime marauders roamed the oceans in rickety ships, forever facing the prospect of death at sea or the fate of the gallows if their luck ran dry. Chasing the promise of plunder to the ends of the earth, many pirates spent their lives searching in vain for fortunes that remained just out of reach. With these five gold dubloon replicas, you can claim your treasure without ever having to walk the plank. Minted in radiant MerlinGold,® these distinctively shaped coins replicate the design and detail of the original Spanish currency. Packaged with a detailed header card, each set contains three small and two large coins, five total. Find out more - History of the Spanish Doubloon

This period scene is dated back to the 1720s -early 18th century. As both historian and artist, I researched piracy and discovered that unlike the motion pictures produced from the '40s to modern times, with "Pirates Of The Caribbean", this lifestyle was sinful and perilous.

As a Society, we glamorize piracy and, to some extent, exploit it. I, on the otherhand, have studied it which compelled me to produce this wooden image to illustrate the blatant disregard men had for women at that time and 'today'. We are bias to its origins, believing that it began in the 16th century when Sir Francis Drake raided Spanish ships and ports; but the fact of the matter is that this practice is as old as biblical times.

I challenged myself to produce this in wood, arranging the figures to capture a moment in time and to arrest the imagination of those who viewed it. Of course this work is no longer in my studio -rather in someone's maritime collection, but it's only fitting to examine the detail and obtain a true visual of the various cultures that came together in the name of the 'brotherhood'. Only in recent times has the motion picture industry showed men of color in naval/nautical themes. Fact is they were always there!

Like public and private gangs of today, pirates were maritime outlaws. Men and women who defied societal ordinances to establish their own code of ethics which ultimately became costly. This sculpture illustrates the sharks attacking the 'sharks' in ill-fated waters.

Galba, 68 - 69

Aureus, Spanish mint (Tarraco ?) April-December 68, 7.80 g. SER GALBA IMP CAESAR AVG P M TR P Laureate head r. Rev. S P Q R / OB / C S in oak wreath. RIC 61. BMC 191. C -, cf. 288 (denarius). CBN 32. Vagi 801. Calico 510 (this coin illustrated).

Very rare. An appealing and unusually good Spanish portrait struck in high relief, extremely fine

Ex Triton sale III, 1999, 1017.

With Galba, the numismatist is presented with a variety of portrait styles because he minted in several locations -Spain, Gaul, Rome and briefly in North Africa after the fall of Clodius Macer - each of which had a distinctive local style. (A comparison in the style of this Spanish mint aureus can be made with lot 41, a product of Rome with the same reverse type.) The Spanish mint at which Galba produced his main coinage is thought to be Tarraco, his old capital city. The locals were all too familiar with what Suetonius (Galba 12.1) tells us were Galba's two prominent characteristics: cruelty and greed. As an example, Suetonius reports that when the people of Tarraco gave him a golden crown from the ancient temple of Jupiter described as weighing 15 pounds, Galba demanded of them three more ounces of gold, for upon melting the crown fell short of its advertised weight by precisely that amount.

NAC24, 39

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