Maybe I should check the caves on my land in breathit county. http://www.econ.ohio-state.edu/jhm/arch/coins/breathit.htm
If you think this find is spectacular then you've got to read this book by James Alexander Thom... "The Children of First Man". Excellent read...
Beyond the pillars of Hercules As noted in the citation link back to its homepage, professional archaeologists tend not to credit the evidence of their senses. (I posit that this is because of post-modernism. but that's another rant.) In fact, when we lived in Albuquerque in 2002, at the coin club meeting, a woman came with a coin she found in her garden a short ways from the Rio Grande. She was hustled to the club president by bowing and scraping people who told her in hushed tones that "he teaches history at the high school." He told her that some pioneer probably dropped on their way West and it did not come from Roman times. He did accurately identify the coin, I believe. I tried to talk to her but her mind was already closed. When that coin was struck the Rio Grande was wet up to its source. While finds are what they are, I credit the larger picture as deniable: some ancient, pre-Columbian people -- storm-tossed or boldly going -- made it here. Folsom points match Mousterian points. I know of another find along the Ohio of an ancient coin. A man brought it in for his mother who found it in her garden, and I was cautioned to be conservative before I spoke to him. So, I was, but I take the evidence as it was presented.
Well first I do not believe the Romans dropped the coins while checking out one of Kentucky's caves. Then again one may never know how the coins got there. All the same I think it is a cool find.
It is interesting to think of different ways they could have gotten there. Maybe they were traded to the Indians way back when and then they left them there.
No, maybe not. But could have been put there by decendants' of the Brendan Voyagers who supposedly came to America about the year 500AD.:rolling:
No, He wasn't, the Vikings were and probably others. Brendan was a Irish Monk who supposedly came to the Americas searching for Paradise. He and his cohorts could have easily taken cheap Roman coins along for trade or as gifts. Sadly, the natives didn't like the poor strikes and Brendan returned to Ireland.:hammer:
Simone Gurtey (sp?) was the immortal one. D. Boone was mostly myth and later on. None of them cared much for "money" but they all believed in "Real Estate". ie, they preferred collecting land. Any of them may have dumped some junk to mark their holdings like the aristocrats that cruised the Ohio River.
The game is afoot Watson !!!!! Most likely planted by a prankster 100 years ago and forgotten. But, you just never know. Traci
Dang it! I thought I had taken everything back with me in my time machine. Those look awfully like my pocket pieces!
