Afternoon everyone….
Today feels like I’m down south. The humidity is getting worse and worse by the day. Tomorrow’s high is supposed to be one hundred and two. With the humidity I don’t even want to think about it.
On a different note. This is a silver bar that I picked up at Archangel coins while in Vegas with the gang at our final meet up. I’m not a huge silver bar guy, I actually prefer rounds over bars. I think it’s a coin collector thing.
This bar grabbed me right off the bat because of the ship on it. It’s a “Christopher Columbus Discovers America” bar. I don’t know what mint produced it, but I’m doing what little research I could. I found one currently listed on eBay. I wax quite shocked at the asking price, considering that I paid $28 for it back then. Spot was just over $25 an ounce at that time.
I checked four different auction sites. None had current or sold listing for this bar in the last six months.
Here is the bar….
It’s a cool looking bar.
Here is the eBay listing that I found.
I know we’ve all been taught in school that Columbus discovered America but that’s bullshit evidently.
Explorer Christopher Columbus (1451–1506) is known for his 1492 ‘discovery’ of the 'new world' of the Americas on board his ship Santa Maria.
In actual fact, Columbus did not discover North America. He was the first European to sight the Bahamas archipelago and then the island later named Hispaniola, now split into Haiti and the Dominican Republic. On his subsequent voyages he went farther south, to Central and South America. He never got close to what is now called the United States.
I wasn’t alive so I’ll have to trust the experts.
