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Ancient SPANISH 'PIRATE' COIN- Genuine 350+ Years Old- Double Dated | eBay |
Mrs. Dashwood loves to surf the internet in the evening, when the day has quieted down. This evening, Monday, August 12th, 2019, she remembered going to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. There, she saw, among all the artworks, jewelry for women of Ancient Rome. She got the feelings that most visitors get upon seeing personal items from long ago. In this instance, the items were gold earrings worn by women alive during the time of Ancient Rome. Actually, the earrings, a type of thick hoop design, looked very similar to the ones that Mrs. Dashwood owns, and that many modern women own, especially during the last decades of the 20th century. Thus, Mrs. Dashwood felt a connection with the Ancient Roman women, who liked and wore the same type of jewelry that she did. Keeping in mind how interesting ancient jewelry is, she ran a search, and among many website, she selected Ancient Resource. http://www.ancientresource.com/index.html
The Los Angeles-based business offeres a large selection of ancient artifacts, including jewelry, statues, coins, amulets, and other items too numerous to mention. The site is divided into ancient areas, such as Ancient Egyptian, Greece, Celtic, Medieval, Holy Land, Persia, and even updating a it into Pirate and Shipwreck treasure.
The owner has written the following information:
"My artifacts are all authenticated and legally acquired, and come from old collections, museum deaccessions, auction houses and institutions throughout North America, Europe and Australia, and I stand by my coins and artifacts with a 100% guarantee of authenticity. With an over 95% return customer rate, I pride myself in honesty, quality, and great customer relations!
-- Gabriel Vandervort, Owner, Ancient Resourcef authenticity". W
Actually, Mrs. Dashwood doesn't have the funds right now to purchase any of these artifacts. Thus, she can't provide a product review of the items and/or business. However, she greatly enjoyed clicking on the various choices, such as "Celtic tribes" and "Pirate and Shipwreck treasure."
"Celtic tribes" showed sections for "Ancient Celtic Bronze Horses and Warrior Artifacts," as well as for coins, gods and goddesses, and battlefield finds. These bronze items look mysterious and beautiful, photographed in some detail on a black background. These types of items seem to run less than $500, and often only a few hundred dollars. Mrs. Dashwood learned that the Celts had "money rings," which served the dual function of being money and jewelry to wear. Some of the "low grade, bent, crusty" rings are only $20.
"Pirate and Shipwreck treasure" artifacts mostly involve various forms of coins from unlucky Spanish ships. One in particular is the Consolacion, wrecked in 1681 on a reef in Ecuador. These coins are in the pricey range, from about $400 to $900, more or less.Owner, A
In short, Mrs. Dashwood enjoyed not only viewing the artifacts, but also reading information about the history and location of the artifacts. PLEASE NOTE: The photographs accompanying Mrs. Dashwood's article are NOT from the Ancient Resource website. Mrs. Dashwood just ran a search and used some copyright-free images for the purpose of providing some illustration. To see the images from the Ancient Resource website, just go to their webpage:)
Disclaimer: Mrs. Dashwood receives no funds for these types of reviews. She simply finds websites that interest her, and that she thinks may be of interest to readers of The Merry Rose General Store. Mrs. Dashwood has no way of knowing if the items are authentic or not. They look authentic, and Mrs. Dashwood is inclined to believe that they are authentic. Mrs. Dashwood adds these words of caution as in any transaction, summed up in Wikipedia: Caveat emptor (/ ˈ ɛ m p t ɔːr /; from caveat, "may he beware", a subjunctive form of cavēre, "to beware" + ēmptor, "buyer") is Latin for "Let the buyer beware".
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