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Come on, you know you enjoy reading all this ancient coin info... The dark side beckons  |
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Sap - thanks for that info. I learned much from it.
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Hey, guys, I was just looking for some coin identification! Then don't start a thread with the title "Did the Carthaginians set foot in Nova Scotia?". That was just asking for trouble.   Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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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.
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Where in the province of Nova Scotia was this found. I am curious since I am into the province's history.
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Well, it, actually does correspond to ancient writings about the Carthiginians finding an island outside the gates of Hercules, as well as their description of the climate, as well as other findings in Nova Scotia--there was an ancient copper mine in Cape D'or that was there when the 'first' known European explorers showed up in the 1600s. Hieroglyphs were found here as well, and the Mic Mac's language is hyeroglyphic and near identical as the kind used by the North Africans and Carthiginians, including symbols for things for which the Mic Mac's didn't use, such as gold, steel and other metals. Supposedly, the Carthiginian's abandoned the trade with the area when theyfeared other rivals might find the new, set up shop, and thus throw off their position of naval superiority on account of the many ships that they would be able to build. Classical thinking, at that time, was very limited to the city state local and couldn't comprehend a real global empire of that sort.
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So where was this coin supposedly found in Nova Scotia
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It's been a while since sarkany has posted to the forum. I believe he's running his own metal detecting site now.
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found a tad ago along a lake in Dartmouth 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. |
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One of my college professors said that during a visit to a museum in Egypt, that one of the exhibits proudly displayed was a boat said to be used by the ancient Egyptians to trade with (now Latin America) Indians. I never looked into this, and do not know the legitimacy of their claim. But my professor said they talked about it as a factual event as if everybody knew this had happened. It would help explain some of the cultural parallels. There were Pyramids in North, Central and South America. And I remember reading once that there were supposedly hieroglyphics somewhere in the Grand Canyon. |
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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.
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