🥇 BANNER Originally posted on the "What Is It" board for an ID .. This is crazy!

[creskol]

I was trying out my new Legend today and found this coin. It was identified by Red-Coat as being a 4 dinero coin of Henry III (1390-1406). Kingdom of Castile and Leon (Spanish states). How it ended up in the fields of Central Virginia is a mystery to me.

 

[creskol]

Congratulations on a Fantastic coin recovery!

Thank you, scruggs!

 

[yaxthri]

I was trying out my new Legend today and found this coin. It was identified by Red-Coat as being a 4 dinero coin of Henry III (1390-1406). Kingdom of Castile and Leon (Spanish states). How it ended up in the fields of Central Virginia is a mystery to me.View attachment 2081482View attachment 2081483

WOW, I love mystery finds!

 

[cudamark]

Just because something old is found, doesn't mean it was dropped there at that time. You can go to just about any coin shop and find Roman coins, therefor, there's also lots of coin collectors out there with Roman coins in their collection. I've found ancient coins in the grass of a modern park and a local school. The park has had coin shows in it.....a kid probably brought an old coin to school for show and tell, and lost it. It's not hard to believe that pre-Columbian coins can be found just about anywhere people have traveled. That 4 dinero coin found in the field could have been dropped there 50 years ago by a worker, or a kid playing or crossing that field. I know several people who keep an old "lucky" coin in their pocket at all times. All it takes is a hole in that pocket and the coin is out for us to find.

 

[creskol]

Just because something old is found, doesn't mean it was dropped there at that time. You can go to just about any coin shop and find Roman coins, therefor, there's also lots of coin collectors out there with Roman coins in their collection. I've found ancient coins in the grass of a modern park and a local school. The park has had coin shows in it.....a kid probably brought an old coin to school for show and tell, and lost it. It's not hard to believe that pre-Columbian coins can be found just about anywhere people have traveled. That 4 dinero coin found in the field could have been dropped there 50 years ago by a worker, or a kid playing or crossing that field. I know several people who keep an old "lucky" coin in their pocket at all times. All it takes is a hole in that pocket and the coin is out for us to find.

Hence.. along the same lines as the old saying ... "buy the relic and not the story."

 

[Charl]

Some Old World coins have been found in the Americas in circumstances that really do make one wonder….

http://anthropology.msu.edu/anp364-fs21/files/2012/08/Epstein-1980-Current-Anthropology.pdf

 

[Kona Koma]

I was trying out my new Legend today and found this coin. It was identified by Red-Coat as being a 4 dinero coin of Henry III (1390-1406). Kingdom of Castile and Leon (Spanish states). How it ended up in the fields of Central Virginia is a mystery to me.View attachment 2081482View attachment 2081483

Amazing

 

[sonoman06]

I was trying out my new Legend today and found this coin. It was identified by Red-Coat as being a 4 dinero coin of Henry III (1390-1406). Kingdom of Castile and Leon (Spanish states). How it ended up in the fields of Central Virginia is a mystery to me.View attachment 2081482View attachment 2081483

The very first silver coin I EVER FOUND with my detector was a 1545 Mexico City 1 real in Southern Maryland. They traded all sorts of Coppers and Silvers in the New World.
Killer find. 👏

 

[sonoman06]

Here's a picture of it. Priceless to me.

 

[Almy]

Would be priceless to me, too.

 

[aShardOfHistory]

Thanks .. It is the earliest coin I have found, and I have been at it for 50+ years.

That is an amazing find, I love how well you can still see the detail.

Have to feel sorry for Americans/US people tho since you can hunt for so many years and hardly ever come across stuff older than 2/300 years old

 

[aShardOfHistory]

Here's a picture of it. Priceless to me.

Gorgeous find, I wonder if it was pierced and worn on a string prior to corrosion on the edges?

 

[aShardOfHistory]

Cool find, but, let's not go "Oak Island" crazy here. It could have been lost 50 years ago by a kid taking his Dad's coin collection to school for show and tell day. There really is no way to tell when something like that was dropped or the source for that matter.

Oh come on, where’s the fun in that?

 

[robertk]

Have to feel sorry for Americans/US people tho since you can hunt for so many years and hardly ever come across stuff older than 2/300 years old

Oh there's older stuff over here, it's just not metal. (Though I do admit to being a bit envious of being able to dig thousand year old coins...)

 

[aShardOfHistory]

Oh there's older stuff over here, it's just not metal. (Though I do admit to being a bit envious of being able to dig thousand year old coins...)

Yeah, just go and prove us wrong with a hoard of coins or something before “modern” humans colonised the us

 

[robertk]

Yeah, just go and prove us wrong with a hoard of coins or something before “modern” humans colonised the us

I think you misunderstood my comment, I said there's older stuff, it's just not metal. No coins before a few hundred years ago. But there are stone artifacts here that go back thousands of years, and fossils that go back even further. Treasure doesn't have to be metal.

 

[aShardOfHistory]

I think you misunderstood my comment, I said there's older stuff, it's just not metal. No coins before a few hundred years ago. But there are stone artifacts here that go back thousands of years, and fossils that go back even further. Treasure doesn't have to be metal.

That's why I said prove us wrong, maybe pirates brought something:P

 

[robertk]

That's why I said prove us wrong, maybe pirates brought something:P

Pirates, maybe. Vikings, maybe. Mayans, Aztecs, maybe, further south. You never know.