I'm sure all of you have heard that Christopher Columbus was the first European to discover the Americas. Of course this isn't really true as Leif Erikson discovered it around the year 1000 AD, the only difference was it stayed discovered after Columbus. This of course has made him an important figure historically.
He sailed from Spain in 1492 with a caravan of three ships. The Nina and Pinta were smaller ships and the Santa Maria was a larger ship that Columbus personally captained. After a stop in the Canary Islands for supplies they sailed west and five weeks later first discovered the Bahamas. From there they sailed onto Cuba and eventually Hispanola where the Santa Maria ran aground and was abandoned on Dec. 25, 1492. Quite a Christmas present for Columbus!
With the remaining two ships he returned to Spain after enslaving several natives and the rest is history. In 1892 Chicago was preparing for the World's Fair for which they had been selected. They named it the World's Columbian Exposition and the United States Mint produced coins in 1892 and 1893 to commemorate the event celebrating 450 years since Columbus had first arrived in the Americas. This is one of those coins produced in 1892 with Columbus on the obverse and the Santa Maria on the reverse. Have a look:
About the coin:
From numista.com
It's a well designed coin that was meant to be a collectible item but many were also released into circulation or later melted down since they are 90% silver. In 1892 they minted 950,000 of the coins so they aren't real hard to come by and are a great addition for any collectors or silver stacker. I believe @silversaver888 has one of these in her amazing collection as well!
Just as interesting item I found a replica of the Santa Maria so you can get an idea of the size of the ship Columbus had commanded and eventually run aground. It wasn't a giant boat and I can't imagine sailing through storms wouldn't have been very pleasant!
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Replica of the Santa Maria
Today Columbus is vilified by many and still honored by others. He never did reach India which he had hoped but opened up two new continents to the Europeans to conquer and pillage. But it set in motion the history of the world as we know it today making Columbus one of the most notable people in world history.
And since it is the middle of winter in the those snow drenched lands north of the equator I only though it fitting to share some nice shots of the Bahamas since they were the first land Columbus discovered.
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I can already see myself right there on the beach drinking a Corona...
If that doesn't get the travel bug started I don't know what else will... I do miss living in the Caribbean. Just ask our friend @davedickeyyall who lives in Puerto Rico how warm it is today. I hope you enjoyed my post today, if you have any suggestions, questions, or comments please feel free to leave them below. Thanks for stopping by and for all of your support!
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References:
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces4396.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Erikson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_Columbian_Exposition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus#Voyages
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I believe when Columbus reached the Bahamas there were people living there. He didn't discover shit.
They were indeed inhabited. Who do you think he enslaved?
The people who actually discovered it..
The real discovers were the inhabitants, but history fails to mention that...
Mighty white of history to do that.
Just like a post I did on Balboa, he was the first white man to see the Pacific ocean and gets all the credit even though the natives discovered it way before Balboa...
I snapped up one of these coins as soon as I got the chance, an 1893, haven't posted it yet. I keep losing count on how many countries that have commemorated the Santa Maria as it seems to be the most popular ship immortalized.
They ran the Santa Maria aground and her remains became a makeshift fort as I recall and left some of the crew in charge when they came back on the next voyage. Sure didn't end well.
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Can you please stop sharing these Caribbean pictures as I really long for such a holiday now :)
Loving the boat (even though it's a replica, lol)
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It just makes me want to go all the more... Have a good night!
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I hope to make it somewhere tropical some day. It looks beautiful!
I hope you get the chance! It's well worth it!
Fantastic images, summer is getting closer.
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The discoverers of the era of great geographical discoveries were, of course, adventurers, they went into the unknown, but it was these people who created the world in which we live.
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It's a great coin. Good preservation.
It's a cool one, thanks!
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Unlike others, I don't get hung up on history. We may not agree with it, but it already happened, and we need to at least talk about it to learn from past mistakes.
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Ship coins are awesome and I love collecting them. I always found in funny that they crashed the Santa Maria into a reef! They never pointed that out in high school history class!
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