The annual traditional #silvergoldstackers Christmas Wish list challenge is in progress! Start anytime, preferably just before Christmas, novice or veteran Stacker, share some of your unfulfilled shiny desires that occupy most of your waking or dreamy thoughts.
“Black birds tend to like shiny things.” ~ The Bloody Raven
At an impromptu party I was asked, “Which member of the Peanuts gang would best represent you?” Peanuts, as in the popular syndicated Charles Schultz comic book characters. My answer was Linus van Pelt, as I may tend to blur the lines between Halloween and Christmas.
Set your screen to dark mode. 🌙
In 2013 the Perth Mint issued a fairly obscure set of eight coins called, ‘Famous Ships that never Sailed’ and I have a deep appreciation of each of the eight magnificent fictional ships of this series each forever immortalized in it’s literary masterpiece.
The Flying Dutchman of Maritime mythology.
The Pequod: Herman Melville’s Moby Dick.
The Gloria Scott: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes.
The Jolly Roger: J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan.
Chimera: Sinbad, One thousand and one Arabian nights.
The Nautilus: Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues under the Sea.
And, HMS Thunder Child: H.G. Wells War of the Worlds.
The One that stood out to me is The Demeter; in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
(Que in Pipe organ crescendo ).
This is the ill-fated ship that ferried Count Dracula to the foggy shores of England, the crew’s sole survivor driven mad, is in Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula.
At a Numista rating of 95 this coin very seldom sees the light of day! (Que in Pipe organ crescendo ). You won’t even find it on any eBay listings.
A few pictures of this coin are found scattered among a few old auction sites, the coin itself long sold and void of it’s treasure and metaphorically empty like an exhumed grave with its bones scattered and effects robbed of its shiny treasure.
No comfort for the living as well as the dead.
This silver coin would make a splendid addition to my Gothic styled theme collection.
There is one specimen, and I know he has it. The price, no not in worthless dollars is what he wants. It is my soul.
Carrying on, A made for Netflix movie has come out this last August “The Last Voyage of the Demeter” expands on Bram Stoker’s novel’s account and put to screen a visually satisfying horror drama. I’m anxious to see this film but it is under my boycott for their so called defense of pedophiles.(Again, pipe organ crescendo.)
By the way, as a reminder that it is Werewolves and bankers hate silver and it makes me wonder if the banks are run by the Lycans werewolves? 🤔
Most of my active followers understand why this coin would easily be on my wish list. The 2013 $1 Tuvalu The Dementer ranks high as the Day 3 of my 12 Days of Christmas choices.
May many cheerful bats 🦇 adorn your Christmas chimney! 🎄
The #piratesunday tag is the scurvy scheme of Captain @stokjockey for #silvergoldstackers pirates to proudly showcase their shiny booty and plunder for all to see. Landlubbers arrrh… welcomed to participate and be a Pirate at heart so open yer treasure chests an’ show us what booty yea got!
12 Days of Christmas Wish list posts
Day 1; 2013 $50 Canada HMS Shannon & The USS Chesapeake 18🍁12 Series.
Day 2; 2017 2 oz.Davy Jones Locker silver round, Privateer Series.
Day 3; 2013 $1 Tuvalu The Dementer, Famous Ships that never sailed series.
References
Wiki; Dracula
Numista; 2013 $1 Tuvalu The Demeter.
Worthpoint; 2013 $1 Tuvalu The Dementer.
DirectCoins; 2013 $1 Tuvalu The Dementer.
My own pictures shot with aging Samsung SM-A530W
P. Image under Pixabay
W. Wiki Commons
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