Did The Carthaginians Set Foot In Nova Scotia?

The climate in Nova Scotia is not too dissimilar to the climate in Britain and Europe, and the geology is much the same. I don't see any reason why "Ancient Nova Scotian bronze coins" would look any different to European ones. And European ones, freshly dug up, typically look like little green rocks. They need work to make them look like coins.

As for the "rewrite the histories" crowd, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and a couple of coins wrenched out of their archaeological context by a metal detectorist isn't going to qualify. There are many logical reasons why this coin could not have been dropped by a passing Carthaginian, some of which have been mentioned already.

One not yet mentioned is this: bronze coins rarely circulated beyond the city of issue. They were issued as token currency, exchangeable for silver only on the word and promise of the city government and the moneylenders operating under city license. They were worthless beyond the regions of the city's control, and doubly worthless when trading with barbarians. The circulation of bronze coins needs all the trappings of civilization that a full-fledged colony would bring, and we would see the evidence easily: ruins, graves, pottery shards by the bucketful.

When Phoenician traders visited Cornwall, England to trade for tin, they left precious little evidence behind that they were there. They were also equivocal with their Greek customers when it came to describing exactly where the tin came from, lest the Greeks go looking for it themselves. But there is enough evidence, from both the on-the-ground archaeology and the historical writings, to put their presence there beyond doubt. To the best of my knowledge, no Phoenician bronze coins have ever been found in an archaeologically correct context in Cornwall. Why not? The Phoenicians did not come to settle; they came, traded, and went away again. And bronze coins would have been useless, except perhaps to explain to the more thickheaded locals what they wanted the tin for.

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Then don't start a thread with the title "Did the Carthaginians set foot in Nova Scotia?". That was just asking for trouble.

Thanks for rersponding to these coins that I found a tad ago along a lake in Dartmouth. Did have them "CPIC" by the police to see if stolen from a collection.

In my 42 years of detecting...upon reflection most of the really old coins I have found area around the ocean, or as in this case a fresh water suppl near the ocean.

The three came out of the same hole and one of these days I'll do a "swish" (water dig) at that spot.

A Spanish one real also came from this area.

I think that this all is a joke...
I don´t believe this "finding", you can find a very beautiful copper coin (not used for trading) but you can´t find any glass, pottery or ancient tools?

So where was this coin supposedly found in Nova Scotia

Doesn't seem as though you're going to get much more precise than that, unless Sarkany returns here or you find him on another forum. Being that Dartmouth is the city of lakes, that doesn't help with an "exact" spot, but at least you know it's Dartmouth.

What other artifacts were recovered? Unless a merchant thought that a local would trade for a small hunk of metal, I would expect a settlement to leave behind farming equipment, building foundations, and maybe some other miscellaneous tools and weapons. Of all the useful things to take to the wild unknown, a bronze coin is not one of them.