Old silver find may rewrite Canadian history

[mindcrime1988]

Not sure if this has been posted already but I found this pretty neat read about a metal detecting find in Canada. Just makes you wonder how little we know of history!

Shilling discovery could rewrite Canadian history

 

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[EccentricInTexas]

Interesting article.

 

[cudamark]

Just because the guy found an old English coin doesn't mean it was dropped by an Englishman. Nor does it mean it was dropped as long ago as they indicate. I could have been dropped by a careless collector last year, or by someone determined to raise this controversy.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

Mark, I way one of those , back when it was first found , who made that same speculation. Odd-ball "pocket pieces" do get lost afterall. People have collected souvenir coins when travelling abroad, for generations. Even old coins .

I know a guy , for instance , who found a coin from 30 BC in an oldtown demolition site in CA . He never for a moment thought "oh wow , the Romans were here in 30 BC". He figured it was a turn of century modern loss , like from a returning over-sea traveller . Old coins , afterall , have been bought and sold for generations. Like during the 1920's during the king tut mummy tomb thing, "egyptology " was the fad at the time . And if you were to go there at that time (and still to this day ), you can buy ancient coins from street vendors.

The finder of this coin though , has compelling counter arguments to this , by pointing out patina on that coin , when compared to silver canadian coins they'd found on the same river banks .