These should not found in the USA ... but here is one !!! Updated W/Link

[Hunter1805]

This was sent to me as part of my research on the coin by my buddy JimNiagara.

That's a hammered Elizabeth I shilling... found in the US has got to be a rare find! They were holed in the reign of William III before being withdrawn in the great recoinage of 1696 . This was posted by the site admin of minelabowners.com.This guy is in all kinda videos ..Sorta famous. he lives in England ,He should know this type of coinage.Grats!!

This is the vid of the hunt and the find ,,, By NiagrcountyNY

http://www.youtube.com/user/NiagracountyNY#p/a/u/0/X9dkDtHE6Vk

I have found reales a Spanish Cob 1655 and a gold coin. I have been detecting for a long time and it takes a lot to get me excited but you never know what is waiting to be uncovered. I was not in England detecting but here in the USA...


ELIZABETH I, 1560-1561,

A silver groat, NOT FOUND IN ENGLAND but here in the USA.... How did this coin find its way to Western New York on top of a mountain hundreds of miles from any ocean? This was a wonderful thrill finding such a unique coin in an unexpected location. The Pilgrims will not land for another 60 years. Indians have not seen a white man in these parts and the nation as we know it has not begun.

I am sure that a settler from England was given this as a family keepsake and was lost during the hard times in the 1830 while trying to eek out a living on a mountain of dirt and rock. or ........

It was lost by some very early unrecorded explorer who made it to the US and traveled up to mountain top and it fell from his sack only to be found 400 years later.

It was found at a dept of 8-10 inches with my E-Track. There is a video on U-Tube and if someone could add the link you will see a real nice day of DETECTING.

I wanted to post this for your enjoyment. I still can't believe that I found this....

Bucky

 

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[romeo-1]

Re: These should not found in the USA ... but here is one !!!

Yep...a rare find indeed!

 

[gold nuggets]

Re: These should not found in the USA ... but here is one !!!

That's why we love this hobbie,
Ya never know what you will find next.
Congratulations on a sweet find.
Gold Nuggets

 

[NUKE345KV]

Re: These should not found in the USA ... but here is one !!!

very cool find

 

[Alnitak]

Re: These should not found in the USA ... but here is one !!!

Very cool, you really have to wonder what the story is behind this one.

 

[Tank69]

Re: These should not found in the USA ... but here is one !!!

where the pics of the gold coin ?

 

[Rusted_Iron]

Re: These should not found in the USA ... but here is one !!!

Wow! That is probably the last thing you expected to find that day. Exciting find!

 

[stillgottawork]

Re: These should not found in the USA ... but here is one !!!

Very nice indeed........................

Keep checking that area.........might be more....

 

[ivan salis]

Re: These should not found in the USA ... but here is one !!!

psst *** the english company that backed " henry hudson" in 1607 -- in 1604 sent 3 vessels on a voyage of discovery on the same route used later by hudson --( they were never heard from again) the coin you have is holed--- could have been on a leather thong on the neck of one of those lost early explorers -- it might have been his "birth" year lucky coin -- you never know.

 

[trikikiwi]

Re: These should not found in the USA ... but here is one !!!

Wow.
I know nothing! (per Sergeant Shultz )
I want to know everything

Mike

 

[lairmo]

Re: These should not found in the USA ... but here is one !!!

That is awesome......what is the name of the youtube video?

 

[Iron Patch]

Re: These should not found in the USA ... but here is one !!!

There was a small (separated) cache of them found in VA.

A few years ago a friend found a 1300s Edward penny off one of my mid. 18th century sites. It can happen!

PS... The find on its own is cool, if found at a site dating that early is when it gets much more interesting.

 

[sscindercoop]

Re: These should not found in the USA ... but here is one !!!

You never know. Congrats

 

[Colonial Copper Zeus]

Re: These should not found in the USA ... but here is one !!!

A dream find for sure.
Chris

 

[scratcher]

Re: These should not found in the USA ... but here is one !!!

Just my opinion, but I think that some of these holed coins were worn by the Natives. I think they were either traded and worn as jewelry or taken during raids, kidnappings, etc. and then made into jewelry. This needs consideration as a plausible explanation for the coins found location as well. Good find

 

[ivan salis]

Re: These should not found in the USA ... but here is one !!!

very possible scrather * --still would have to have been a very very rare early trade / salvaged from a wreck / whatever item by its date range . --very cool however it got there.

 

[kane23]

Re: These should not found in the USA ... but here is one !!!

Nice shilling, hammered no less! I found a greek selucid coin from 120 BC and a Roman coin from 270 AD, both on the same lawn, I know of several others who have found ancient coins here in the US. good job, kane 23

 

[IAsoldier]

Re: These should not found in the USA ... but here is one !!!

It just makes you wonder how it got there but hey nice Shilling WTG

 

[johnnyi]

Re: These should not found in the USA ... but here is one !!!

"A silver groat, NOT FOUND IN ENGLAND but here in the USA.... How did this coin find its way to Western New York on top of a mountain hundreds of miles from any ocean? This was a wonderful thrill finding such a unique coin in an unexpected location. The Pilgrims will not land for another 60 years. Indians have not seen a white man in these parts and the nation as we know it has not begun.
I am sure that a settler from England was given this as a family keepsake and was lost during the hard times in the 1830 while trying to eek out a living on a mountain of dirt and rock. or ........
It was lost by some very early unrecorded explorer who made it to the US and traveled up to mountain top and it fell from his sack only to be found 400 years later."

Wonderful find!! I'd vote for possibility number two, that it was lost by an early explorer. The coin shows little wear for one thing, and in hard times I don't think a silver coin would mean as much as a keepsake as it would a few necessities. I guess there are endless possibilities though. Sir Walter Raleigh for instance; he explored in the name of Elizebeth and established the colony in Virginia that got wiped out by the indians. Maybe the coin was from there and found its way north through trade to other tribes. Man...with a neat find like this you can dream endlessly about all the possibilities!

 

[JerV3]

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Awesome coin man

That is a old coin for the states. My hands don't shake often either anymore. But that one would have done it for me also.

HH Jer