{"id":3797,"date":"2010-06-10T14:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/principality-of-atlantis\/"},"modified":"2022-03-10T06:48:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T06:48:40","slug":"principality-of-atlantis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/principality-of-atlantis\/","title":{"rendered":"Principality of Atlantis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The<\/strong> <strong>P<\/strong><strong>rincipality of <\/strong><strong>A<\/strong><strong>tlantis <\/strong>was the concoction of a group of over-enthusiastic Danish Atlantis fans in the 1930s. They elected the then 79-year-old Prince Christian of Denmark, a descendant of Leif Erikson, as their leader. He died in 1938. These enthusiasts also issued their own coins and stamp.<b> <\/b>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/bramwell-james-guy\/\">James Bramwell<\/a>. they were reputed at one time to have had a membership of 25,000<sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/b\/\">0195<\/a>.22]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the group was a Mr Mott who may be the same <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/mott-j-l\/\">J. L. Mott<\/a> referred to elsewhere. My <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/coin.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-28352\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/coin.png\" alt=\"coin\" width=\"92\" height=\"96\" \/><\/a>doubt is based on a report of a J. L. Mott\u2019s death in the Bahamas in 1932, whereas a Mr Mott visited a Miami stamp dealer in 1937<sup>(<\/sup><sup>a<\/sup><sup>)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Seventy years later gold and silver coins were issued in the name of the Kingdom of Atlantis by the World Proof Numismatic Association of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, purely as a commercial venture.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(<\/sup><sup>a<\/sup><sup>) <\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200715051339\/http:\/\/digitalcollections.fiu.edu\/tequesta\/files\/1972\/72_1_04.pdf\">Wayback Machine (archive.org)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Principality of Atlantis was the concoction of a group of over-enthusiastic Danish Atlantis fans in the 1930s. They elected the then 79-year-old Prince Christian of Denmark, a descendant of Leif Erikson, as their leader. He died in 1938. These enthusiasts also issued their own coins and stamp. According to James Bramwell. they were reputed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53523,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797\/revisions\/53523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}