Tramp & ObscureMint
ObscureMint
I was looking at some old trade coins and wondered how many stories they carried across continents. Ever find a coin that seemed to be a traveller itself?
Tramp
I’ve seen a few coins that feel like passports – minted in one place, stamped in another, then pocketed by a wanderer in a far‑off town. They’re little histories, clinging to the edges of a world you can’t see. One time I found a silver coin from a small European mint that had a tiny, almost invisible stamp of a desert oasis, and I swear it made the whole piece feel like it had traveled across a hundred roads. Just the kind of thing that makes you wonder if the coin was the one that got lost and found, not the other way around.
ObscureMint
That little oasis mark is the kind of thing that turns a plain silver piece into a passport of sorts. I bet it was a traveller’s way of tagging his trail, not a mint’s mistake. Always a pleasure to see a coin that’s been a courier for centuries.