Posted 03/26/2009 05:24 am
My most important was a 1929 Canadian Penny, found with my toes under the water of Okanogan Lake at Osoyoos, BC, which got me interested in collecting Candadian coins. My best one was a 1906 Canadian Cent, EF with lustre, found with period bottles in the lower town area of Revelstoke, BC, in an area which used to hve a Chinatown with laundries and restaurants. This area was a small fump, which had nice bottles, some still with labels, and a few nice coins. The most interesting one I have seen was an Anglo-French Groat(c.1425), found about 18 inchs below ground level on a high point on Quadra Island, which was probably left by a lookout from Sir Francis Drake's voyage of discovery and capture in the 1540s.(I did a talk to a CNA conference in Vancouver about this coin, and how it was more evidence that Drake had been much further north than San Francisco Bay- he evidently falsified his latitudes, as his maps describe accurately the land forms of Vancouver Island, the Olympic Peninsula, and as far North as the Alaska Panhandle. See how coins work with history- I love it.
