Mystery Ship coins location thread

[LambKnuckles]

Anyone found the Valor's?  I'm cruising her in less than the weeks. 

[serene56]

SMH   (first the posting is very old )   but kinda defeats the purpose of LOOKING for the coins instead of putting that information out there.   

So what is the purpose of KNOWING where it is-- why find it if you know it 

[mr_guns]

Just heard about these. Going on Sunshine and Breeze shortly. Yea and my friend Kevin won’t tell me we’re they are. 🤭

[mr_guns]

I’ve been looking on the Sunshine all day. No luck yet. I have 13 days to find it. 

[BlerkOne]

10 minutes ago, mr_guns said:

I’ve been looking on the Sunshine all day. No luck yet. I have 13 days to find it. 

If I recall correctly, it's a $2 bill by a Serenity hot tub.

[PhillyFan33579]

On 8/17/2011 at 8:39 PM, Rosefloater said:

 

Or the hidden Mickey's on Carnival (aft swimming pool and hot tubs on the Paradise.:D

 

 

ThIs hidden Mickey is just a memory. 

[Aplmac]

Here's a little background to the mythology

associated with placing coins on ships for good luck and safe passage

 

Ancient Greek Mythology relates

that the River Styx is a barrier that separates us mortals

from a successful transition to the afterlife.

If you don't successfully transition, you'll be stuck in 'limbo' for eternity.

 

Charon provides a ferry service across the River Styx

but he requires some small payment in the form of coinage: he doesn't take cards.

He is described in the literature as having transported the souls of the newly dead

across this river, into the afterlife.

 

This small financial requirement ties in

with a very old maritime tradition in sail-boating and shipbuilding,

when Mast Stepping is the process of raising the boat's mast.

It also refers to a ceremonial occasion which occurs

when the mast is 'stepped' towards the end of a ship's construction.

 

The ceremony involves placing or welding one or more coins

into the mast step of a ship,

and is seen as an important ceremonial occasion in a ship's construction

which is thought to bring good luck.

Although such coins were originally placed under the main mast of a ship,

they are now generally welded under the radar mast (sometimes in a protective box)

or laid in the keel, as part of a keel laying ceremony.

 

Carnival cruise ships display a coin box high up on an uppermost deck,

in the lee of the radar mast. Sky Deck in many cases.

I check it every time. It's often a big ole American Silver Dollar

dated the year the ship is completed!

 

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I've included a picture of Charon, draped in red

hard at work ferrying souls across the river.

Notice those despairing at lower right. They didn't walk with spare change!

 

 

 

[Aplmac]

There it is, right in front of you, welded to the bulkhead

close to the Table Tennis table.

 

This is Carnival Liberty - Sky Deck, where the kids line up for the waterslide.

[mr_guns]

On 1/12/2019 at 4:37 PM, BlerkOne said:

If I recall correctly, it's a $2 bill by a Serenity hot tub.

Got it. Thank you. Must have walked past it twenty times.