joncooper1986
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(***Correction of Post***: I just realized this coin is from Luxemborg. Not France.)
Found this doozy today. an 1870 French 10 Centimes. I have found a couple French Sols at this spot, but they are from the late 1700's when the cellarhole on the property was still a home. It went abandoned or burned down by 1870 and nobody lived there. I know the land was hayed for 100 years after that, and I am thinking that maybe the farmhand employed either a French man or someone from Quebec that lost this big guy (28mm!). I live in Western Massachusetts so i don;t think this theory is too far fetched, but who knows. Anyone know if people actually traded in foreign money at the turn of the twentieth century?? I am going to assume it was lost at least 10 years after it was struck. Either way, I'm happy.
Found this doozy today. an 1870 French 10 Centimes. I have found a couple French Sols at this spot, but they are from the late 1700's when the cellarhole on the property was still a home. It went abandoned or burned down by 1870 and nobody lived there. I know the land was hayed for 100 years after that, and I am thinking that maybe the farmhand employed either a French man or someone from Quebec that lost this big guy (28mm!). I live in Western Massachusetts so i don;t think this theory is too far fetched, but who knows. Anyone know if people actually traded in foreign money at the turn of the twentieth century?? I am going to assume it was lost at least 10 years after it was struck. Either way, I'm happy.
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I'm not knowledgeable on coin history but it's a super find in such good condition! 
