Thanks guys, for not beating me up too badly.
I think I might have tried mining litecoin in the beginning, but with the electric costs here stuck to trading instead.
Yes, it was before 2014, so I need to do that clam dig...
(Also left a tiny amount of dash, at some pool that I need to move before I forget.)
One thing I tried, I imported an old core wallet with huge amounts of change addresses into clam wallet after removing my funds.
Somehow, if you import a wallet dat direct, you get the clam coins as tied to you the instant you imported, needing no syncing of the blockchain.
I basically downloaded the clam wallet, imported it , and sent out a transaction of my clam balance to poloniex without letting the blockchain sync complete.
Somehow it sent out the transaction which I found was received by a block explorer, half an hour later it was confirmed even though the wallet was still downloading, I promptly deleted the still syncing clam wallet.