How did THAT get to HERE??

[Javadroid]

This isn't an amazing find in terms of value, but it never ceases to amaze me how we find things that seem so out of place from where they originated or belong.
I was doing a bit of coin shooting at a local park here in small town northwest Arkansas and got a handful of clad, plust this:



Makes you wonder how a coin goes over 8,000 miles and lands where I pulled this one. It's pretty cool looking, but when I first saw it I was hoping for an old US half dollar. Still an interesting find, I think. Thanks for looking & HH!

 

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By Boat

 

[Coinucopia]

Amazing isn't it? I've found some oddities before that just left me scratching my head in bewilderment as to how it ended up there.

 

[SD51]

Know what you mean... Once I thought I finally had a gold coin and it was a 100 peso coin from Mexico!

 

[Samanthy]

Was there a hospital nearby where you found the coin? The United States has been bringing in foreign nurses I believe since the 1970‘s. Medical field loves cheaper labor. Arkansas got its share. Primary source country : Philippines

 

[Javadroid]

Was there a hospital nearby where you found the coin? The United States has been bringing in foreign nurses I believe since the 1970‘s. Medical field loves cheaper labor. Arkansas got its share. Primary source country : Philippines

Interesting... actually it WAS near where an old hospital was for decades before being torn down a couple years ago. That's a definite possibility.

The back stories behind our finds are part of what we enjoy, isn't it? Wondering what happened when this coin or button or bullet or whatever was dropped where decades/centuries later we dug it out. Just fascinating to me to think about sometimes.

 

[andygold]

Cool find Javadroid! I posted here a while back....my wife received a Roman coin from the year 300 AD, as change during a purchase here in NY. It was a bronze, but close enough in size and color to be mistaken for a US penny. Like your Philippines coin, we wonder how the Roman got here, and even more so how it happened to be in circulation 1700 years after it was minted!!!!!

 

[Jason in Enid]

Coins travel. People love to bring home coins from places they visit. I've always wished I could know the story of their travels. Who carried it? When? Why were they there?

 

[Kray Gelder]

A lot of US Navy vets, passed through PI. I still have some Philippines currency. A lot of guys married women over there, brought them back. That opened the door for all of her family members. The Philippines are ( or were ) a US protectorate, so they could enlist in our military, and gain citizenship, and here comes their relatives, and as Samanthy said, work visas.

People of Philippine descent are not as common in Arkansas, as along both coasts.

Cool find.

 

[Digger RJ]

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[JamesRS]

Dug a pair of eyeglasses from my yard. Modern design, one lens in place, and found six inches deep. What, how

 

[Subterranean]

Always fun to find foreign money here in the USA! Great find. Sub

 

[smallfoot]

Foreign coins is always fun for me...might be the only way Ill get em...

 

[TooManyHobbies]

I love finding foreign coins from places other than Canada. My F-I-L and I were hunting a park in RI and he found an Eisenhower dollar. Then I showed him the 5 pound Turks and Caicos coin that I found, it was bigger than the Ike. Just makes you wonder how big coins like those are dropped unnoticed.

 

[Clad2Silver]

Coins arrive here from all over the world. Tourists from Europe and other places can bring them here. USA citizens who traveled abroad bring them home when they return from where they were visiting. I live relatively close to New London, Conn. which after WW2 had a large population of people from the Philippines because they were in the Navy or Coast Guard making it possible that quite a few coins from the Philippines are lost in that area. I've found coins from many foreign countries which helps to make my finds that much more interesting. Your coin is a nice find.

 

[Clad2Silver]

I love finding foreign coins from places other than Canada. My F-I-L and I were hunting a park in RI and he found an Eisenhower dollar. Then I showed him the 5 pound Turks and Caicos coin that I found, it was bigger than the Ike. Just makes you wonder how big coins like those are dropped unnoticed.

Maybe those large sized coins went unnoticed because of too much beer ?

 

[Hawks88]

We have lots of foreign boats travelling through the canal here. The kids would line up along the lock area and the workers on the boats would toss coins to them. You couldn’t use them here so they would just throw them away or lose them. Nice coin JD.

 

[Javadroid]

Maybe those large sized coins went unnoticed because of too much beer ?

I've lost plenty of money that way mate!

 

[RustyRelics]

That's a cool find, but it does happen. I have found a coin from the Bahama's in spare change in Pennsylvania once. I guess folks use coins, whether they know what they are or not.

 

[Brendan75]

Hi, nice find. Congrats