Man finds 17th Century coin while planting his garden!

[Groovedymond]

This happened in Cape Cod (Massachusetts). Imagine if he let us loose in his garden with our detectors!

Also kinda neat is the fact that they think they know who would have dropped the coin!

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[Rasputin]

Great find and story. I've always been a history buff.

 

[thrillathahunt]

Interesting story.

 

[Ronzie]

Great find and story. I've always been a history buff.

I second that. Great story.

 

[briankb70]

neat story

 

[Detectingfreak]

Awesome story! Maybe one day, all of us on T-net will get to either find or buy a coin like that one.

 

[Iron Patch]

Awesome story! Maybe one day, all of us on T-net will get to either find or buy a coin like that one.

Well you can certainly buy one. What he found is only worth maybe $10.

 

[CRUSADER]

Awesome story! Maybe one day, all of us on T-net will get to either find or buy a coin like that one.

Well you can certainly buy one. What he found is only worth maybe $10.

Not even worth £2 over here, but an interesting find over there. Yes a William III Sixpence, often made into love tokens in the UK.

So John lost it did he
What did john do with all his coins Clearly it could be possible that he spent them & others lost it, or might have got there any number of other ways. Why could it not have been lost in 1910? for example! It has not come from a sealed archaeological layer so could have been lost anytime.

 

[IronSpike]

John couldn't have lost it. He was the only one to whom coins had value

 

[CRUSADER]

John couldn't have lost it. He was the only one to whom coins had value

yeah, I know.

I love story tellers. I could have come up with a far most interesting story & got on the TV.

 

[Iron Patch]

John couldn't have lost it. He was the only one to whom coins had value

yeah, I know.

I love story tellers. I could have come up with a far most interesting story & got on the TV.

Hey Cru, why not Youtube a video about the coins you've found that Jesus lost?

 

[CRUSADER]

John couldn't have lost it. He was the only one to whom coins had value

yeah, I know.

I love story tellers. I could have come up with a far most interesting story & got on the TV.

Hey Cru, why not Youtube a video about the coins you've found that Jesus lost?

who told you, I was trying to keep that under wraps

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

Amazing how he deduced that the Reverend lost that coin, even though it appeared to be worn enough to be lost dozens of years later. Still, it would be fun to detect his property.

 

[allen]

neat story !

 

[woody50]

Awesome story! Maybe one day, all of us on T-net will get to either find or buy a coin like that one.

Well you can certainly buy one. What he found is only worth maybe $10.

Not even worth £2 over here, but an interesting find over there. Yes a William III Sixpence, often made into love tokens in the UK.

So John lost it did he
What did john do with all his coins Clearly it could be possible that he spent them & others lost it, or might have got there any number of other ways. Why could it not have been lost in 1910? for example! It has not come from a sealed archaeological layer so could have been lost anytime.

Sure wish I could get £2 for every one I have... could buy that new Hummer I need for MD'n.... If you know someone who will pay that let me know....

 

[woody50]

John couldn't have lost it. He was the only one to whom coins had value

yeah, I know.

I love story tellers. I could have come up with a far most interesting story & got on the TV.

Hey Cru, why not Youtube a video about the coins you've found that Jesus lost?

Yea he did already, I saw it on my last trip there. But it's not the best film, not easy to watch, its just too jerky and out of focus. I know that Cru is a great MD'ist and he can hunt like nobody else, and he can tell great stories and tales, but he just cannot make video's that are worth a d a m n.... And actually the coins were too old to see much on them either....

 

[Iron Patch]

Awesome story! Maybe one day, all of us on T-net will get to either find or buy a coin like that one.

Well you can certainly buy one. What he found is only worth maybe $10.

Not even worth £2 over here, but an interesting find over there. Yes a William III Sixpence, often made into love tokens in the UK.

So John lost it did he
What did john do with all his coins Clearly it could be possible that he spent them & others lost it, or might have got there any number of other ways. Why could it not have been lost in 1910? for example! It has not come from a sealed archaeological layer so could have been lost anytime.

Sure wish I could get £2 for every one I have... could buy that new Hummer I need for MD'n.... If you know someone who will pay that let me know....

You tell me how many you got and I'll write the check.

 

[BuckleBoy]

Awesome story! Maybe one day, all of us on T-net will get to either find or buy a coin like that one.

Well you can certainly buy one. What he found is only worth maybe $10.

Not even worth £2 over here, but an interesting find over there. Yes a William III Sixpence, often made into love tokens in the UK.

So John lost it did he
What did john do with all his coins Clearly it could be possible that he spent them & others lost it, or might have got there any number of other ways. Why could it not have been lost in 1910? for example! It has not come from a sealed archaeological layer so could have been lost anytime.

Yes, and with that amount of wear--it was not lost in the 17th c. for sure.


I think it was lost by a Confederate Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

 

[dfx willy]

man you guys pick things apart . let the man have his glory. it probley came off the whidah the famous pirate shipe found in that area. someone found thAT 100 years ago on the shore and brought it home and lost it in the garden. willy.

 

[CRUSADER]

man you guys pick things apart . let the man have his glory. it probley came off the whidah the famous pirate shipe found in that area. someone found thAT 100 years ago on the shore and brought it home and lost it in the garden. willy.

The underlined comes with experience.

He found with eyes only an exciting coin.

The mystery of how it got there is equally fasinating, but it was the historians who had the over active imagination.