Who / What / Where Game - Page 1056

Aktungbby · 02-12-21, 12:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Catfish

Maybe it was brought into general circulation two years later?

Whatever, i have not much knowledge of mints and coins but i saw the word at the left ended with ty, and the right word began with D, so i looked for Twenty Dollar gold coins and found this ..

nose on the scent, lad; I gave the big hint in post# 15815!

Catfish · 02-12-21, 12:44 PM

Ok what is this .. ?

mapuc · 02-12-21, 12:56 PM

Front of a Fighter plane from WWII.

Markus

Aktungbby · 02-12-21, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by true subsimmer

WHO, What, where, & When?

HUH!???? NO NO! that just what it is coinwise by "nose on the scent", I meant "so far so good" continue on, U have to get who where and when too! It's a veeeeery unique coin...to a true subsimmer!

Jimbuna · 02-12-21, 01:03 PM

American single prop?

u crank · 02-12-21, 01:38 PM

The aircraft seems to have some coverings. Is that because of cold weather?

Aktungbby · 02-12-21, 02:17 PM

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HUH!???? NO NO! that just what it is coinwise by "nose on the scent", I meant "so far so good" continue on, U have to get who where and when too! It's a veeeeery unique coin...to a true subsimmer!

AHEM! what's going on? my puzzle hasn't yet been resolved!

Catfish · 02-12-21, 02:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Aktungbby

HUH!???? NO NO! that just what it is coinwise by "nose on the scent", I meant "so far so good" continue on, U have to get who where and when too! It's a veeeeery unique coin...to a true subsimmer!

There seems to have been quite some battling in the mint of the time, with some people trying to move Longacre out of the business

edit: Ah, it is "Dixon's Coin", indeed submarine-related – found in the CSS Hunley!

The Legend
According to legend, Hunley Captain George Dixon was given a $20 gold coin by his sweetheart when he left for war. During the Battle of Shiloh, Dixon was shot. The bullet struck the coin in his trouser pocket, absorbing the impact of the shot and sparing his life. Countless legends are born during war, but few are ever proven. For 137 years, no one knew whether the story was a historical fact or a romantic tale passed from generation to generation.

A Legend Becomes Reality
During the excavation of the Hunley, a gold coin minted in 1860 was discovered lying on Dixon’s hip bone. It was warped from the impact of a bullet, and traces of lead were discovered on the coin. One side bears the image of Lady Liberty, and the other has been sanded and inscribed" Shiloh
April 6th 1862 My life Preserver G. E. D."

https://www.hunley.org/artifacts/

^ Really interesting and worth reading

Jimbuna · 02-12-21, 02:25 PM

Spot on Kai and thank the Lord

Catfish · 02-12-21, 02:32 PM

^ thank the Lord indeed

Sorry @Aktungbby, I thought it was enough to identify the type of coin, and when and where it was made, but this unfolding story of the finding, the civil war legend of blocking a bullett and the submarine context with the CSS Hunley and Dixon gets of course much further than this

Aktungbby · 02-12-21, 02:42 PM

INDEED given him by Queeny Bennet, his 17 year old lady. He gave her an engraved locket in return: surely such a pair must have had a chocolate or two.

As for the money involved: the reward for anyone sinking a Charleston blockade ship such as the USS Housatonic was set at $50,000 dollars over a million in today's value. Hence the inspiration by W.L Hunley et al to build a very advanced reduction-geared schnorkel-equipped hydro dynamic submersible. The schnorkel was found not extended. After his close encounter at Shiloh
Lt Dixon he had it inscribed

Considering my own shattered left hip/fermur on 4/6/1981

in a gun cleaning accident restoring a WWII .380 Luftwaffe Beretta relic pistol, with a resultant steel pin surgery; I could have used a coin in my own pocket!

OVER TO CATFISH officially!

He's passed the true

er test!

Catfish · 02-12-21, 02:52 PM

^ Thanks, this is really a fascinating story, if not for Dixon and the Hunley's crew!

My riddle is much more mundane..

@Mapuc: "Front of a Fighter plane from WWII."
ts ts, 3 questions but ok: yes.

@Jim:
2 questions.. so.. American / no

@u crank:
Not because of the weather afaik

Aktungbby · 02-12-21, 03:13 PM

The other question that begs is the mistake in history crediting the Dutch for inventing the 'snuiver' or schnorkel device used by U-boats...clearly a desperate Confederate concept:

with the candle lit and the blue phosphorous lamp,

signaling success" :"start bonfires to navigate back home" in the heavy tidal current, seen by witnesses on shore and a crewman aboard the stricken Housatonic; all consuming precious oxygen good for approx. two hours of cranking by 7 grown men, the issue is of great importance. I'll have a post on the 17th, the date of the Hunley's sinking, with a better theory of the sinking.... after the first successful submarine attack in history https://www.hunley.org/lost-hunley-c...rine-vanished/

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^ Thanks, this is really a fascinating story, if not for Dixon and the Hunley's crew!

GOOD GOD! NO

Aktungbby · 02-12-21, 03:14 PM

Air craft covered for shipping?

Catfish · 02-12-21, 03:16 PM

Nope

02-12-21, 12:44 PM	#15827
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 16,913 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	Ok what is this .. ? __________________ >^..^<*)))>{ All generalizations are wrong.

02-12-21, 12:56 PM	#15828
mapuc Fleet Admiral Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Denmark Posts: 18,170 Downloads: 37 Uploads: 0	Front of a Fighter plane from WWII. Markus __________________ My little lovely female cat

02-12-21, 01:03 PM	#15830
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,518 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	American single prop? __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

02-12-21, 01:38 PM	#15831
u crank Old enough to know better Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Prince Edward Island Posts: 11,567 Downloads: 136 Uploads: 0	The aircraft seems to have some coverings. Is that because of cold weather? __________________ “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” ― Arthur C. Clarke

02-12-21, 02:25 PM	#15834
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,518 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Spot on Kai and thank the Lord __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

02-12-21, 02:32 PM	#15835
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 16,913 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	^ thank the Lord indeed Sorry @Aktungbby, I thought it was enough to identify the type of coin, and when and where it was made, but this unfolding story of the finding, the civil war legend of blocking a bullett and the submarine context with the CSS Hunley and Dixon gets of course much further than this __________________ >^..^<*)))>{ All generalizations are wrong.

02-12-21, 02:42 PM	#15836
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 28,000 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	INDEED given him by Queeny Bennet, his 17 year old lady. He gave her an engraved locket in return: surely such a pair must have had a chocolate or two. As for the money involved: the reward for anyone sinking a Charleston blockade ship such as the USS Housatonic was set at $50,000 dollars over a million in today's value. Hence the inspiration by W.L Hunley et al to build a very advanced reduction-geared schnorkel-equipped hydro dynamic submersible. The schnorkel was found not extended. After his close encounter at Shiloh Lt Dixon he had it inscribed Considering my own shattered left hip/fermur on 4/6/1981 in a gun cleaning accident restoring a WWII .380 Luftwaffe Beretta relic pistol, with a resultant steel pin surgery; I could have used a coin in my own pocket! OVER TO CATFISH officially! He's passed the trueer test! __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness; and I'm not too sure about the Universe" Last edited by Aktungbby; 02-12-21 at 02:55 PM.

02-12-21, 02:52 PM	#15837
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 16,913 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	^ Thanks, this is really a fascinating story, if not for Dixon and the Hunley's crew! My riddle is much more mundane.. @Mapuc: "Front of a Fighter plane from WWII." ts ts, 3 questions but ok: yes. @Jim: 2 questions.. so.. American / no @u crank: Not because of the weather afaik __________________ >^..^<*)))>{ All generalizations are wrong.

02-12-21, 03:14 PM	#15839
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 28,000 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	Air craft covered for shipping? __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness; and I'm not too sure about the Universe"

02-12-21, 03:16 PM	#15840
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 16,913 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	Nope __________________ >^..^<*)))>{ All generalizations are wrong.