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Message:: [QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 8068149, member: 128351"]There are coins that come to you thanks to dealers and postal services, and others that do it on their own. Life is full of surprises (D. Lynch, The Elephant Man). My wife was just back from the south of France, by car. She parked the car in front of our house, took a heavy bag from the trunk, climbed the few steps to our door while I went out to take the rest of her luggage. On the steps I notice small traces of mud and a tiny black coin, the size of 1 eurocent. [ATTACH=full]1398795[/ATTACH] She assured me the steps were perfectly clean when she first climbed them a few seconds ago. Her soles were a little muddy: the only explanation we found was that the coin must have been stuck in the mud under her soles, and have fallen when she first climbed the stairs. And this mud could only come from a motorway gas station, where she remembered having run under the rain through a muddy grass patch. The coin is a double mite of Flanders, minted in some now Belgian city, the kind that circulated in the Duchy of Burgundy in the late middle ages - early modern period, under Philip the Fair and Charles V. And it is true that this gas station location, north of Lyons, was not in France at the time but in the Duchy of Burgundy, later in Charles V Empire. I could find on internet no exact match. Maybe somebody here could help me identify this mysterious coin that came to me on its own after more than 500 years?[/QUOTE]