When we were in town on Friday, B.B. was hunting through the van for buried treasure while Husband loaded up the groceries and I fed Bitsy. He began to shout, "Money! Money! I founded some monies, Mommy!!" He dove over the seat to show me his penny. I told him that was nice and asked him to get in his car seat.
When I went back to buckle him in I took a closer look at his money. It wasn't a penny at all. It was a 1983 One Ngwee coin from Zambia. I just looked it up and one from the same year is selling on ebay for $1.25. The big question is how one got in my van in Southern Illinois...mysterious.
**Note: Please click on the comment box & read what The Queen Mother has to say about this. I think she's solved the mystery.**
6 comments:
Well that's easy.
There was a big storm and it blew Captian Jack off course. He ended up off the Horn of Africa, were he highjacked a slave ship.
Being a good pirate he offered the ship to anyone who could pay the price. Then he headed across the sea back to Tortuga. Once there he ran into Will yet again. Will was looking for that silly girl again. Turns out she had been kidnaped and was being sent to New Orleans to be sold to a frontiersman, who traveled on the Natchez Trace.
Jack and Will head up the Trace to a place called She Boss. There they trick the frontiersman into beliving that Elizabeth is the Queen and they must return her to England. For his troubles they give him 7 gold coins.
The frontiersman ends his trip in Nashville looking for a job. No jobs to be had He hears stories that flatboats are running down the Ohio. He heads north gets a job running trade up and down the Walbash. As everyone knows frontiersman like to shoot targets for money. Our frontierman loses all his money and bets the 7 coins,losing then to a trapper who is headed west looking for furs. The trapper is in love with a Indian girl who lives along the Bompas. He gives the girl the coins and she makes a necklace with them.the necklace is passed down to daugher who passes it down to her daughter and so on until present day. The granddaughter goes to Walmart one day sees this sweet baby and while bending over her one of the coins falls into the blankets. The day is hot so once out of Walmart the blanket is wadded up and thrown on the seat. Back home the blanket is pick up the coin falls and rolls under the seat to a hiding place were it is safe until BB goes on a treasure hunt.
That's the answer of course! Now if we could just get the Queen Mother to author and illustrate this in a story we can have for all time....
I think this is a best-seller! And much better than my thinking...I figured it was just aliens...
But QM! It couldn't have been made into a necklace there are no holes and what about the date on the coin??? No no, I think it is all correct but you got to throw in a space/time continuum and the indian girl had to have worn them in her moccasins or something and then the moccasins got passed down - that's gotta be it. :D
The date makes the coin extremely rare. It happens with stamping, the 6 got turned upside down.Thats why it is so valuable.
A necklace beaded like moccasins to hold the coins in.
Perfect :)
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