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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
Edited by DBM
11/10/2022 12:04 am
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
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Wow! Thanks for posting that, DBM! That is quite a mystery and very puzzling indeed.
Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
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Odds are it arrived in Newfoundland decades or even centuries after it was struck.
Gold is eternal.
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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I agree with DBM's comment in general.
IMO it probably arrived with the earliest known and already documented English settlers in the area.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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History would only be altered by finding a real hoard not just a single coin.
Agree probably brought much later with a settler .
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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It seems obvious that somebody lost an old coin while in Newfoundland. No history needs to be rewritten.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Just because it was an English coin doesn't mean that the English lost it. At that time, a coin was a coin and they traded or exchanged hands or was confiscated by an unknown foreigner and maybe kept for decades or centuroes and then lost there.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Interesting read but as okie said settlers would have carried it for a long time because gold is gold and every one back to ancient times know what gold was.
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Moderator
Australia
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I find the damage inflicted on the coin to be curious; as if someone attempted to punch out the central design.
Perhaps the coin was turned into a piece of jewellery, which subsequently fell apart? It might explain why an "old gold coin" was lurking about.
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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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Not a Canadian coin why is this topic not in English coins.
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Valued Member
Canada
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"Not a Canadian coin why is this topic not in English coins." ?
I collect coins that circulated in Canada, so am very interested in this find. It's very relevant in the Canadian section. Likely too expensive for me, but otherwise I would add it to my Canada collection.
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Valued Member
Canada
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Detecting is such mixed bag, only at the end of the day you can wrap your head around the where and the why of your finds if you are lucky.
I've been detecting for close to thirty years now and have found coins from literally dozens of different countries.
Our oldest sites here on the east coast sometimes give up hammered coins but they are the exception and not the rule.
Spanish cobs and maravedi do show up with regularity but the odd English hammered coin does show up...one instance of an early Edward hammered silver penny showed up at a an Acadian site ( 1720s-1750s) so its possible to see these really old coins appear in some of our earliest settlements here in Canada.
Also, as an avid detectorist, these are the stories that keep our passion high and alive!
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