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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1734630, member: 26302&quot;]I agree with Ripley. The problem with people using coins to revise history is many times dates and geography are meaningless. There are loads of examples. We know for a fact that ships used to take on ballast in Europe and then sail to America. When they got here, they would dump ballast. Quite a few times that ballast would have ancient roman coins in it. More than a couple of times some college intellectual would find out about ancient roman coins found in the port of Philadelphia or NYC and leap to some cockamamie theory how the ancient Romans discovered America. Other times money is simply money. Just as likely in this story is the coins were being used as current coinage a few hundred years ago, (even though they might have been minted 1000 years ago), and someone simply lost them. This is very common. In China, they used to dig up 2400 year old cash coins, then go down to the market and spend them. Money is money in many ways. </p><p><br /></p><p>Academicians are always WAY, WAY too quick to assume a coin was lost just a year or two after being coined, and was personally lost BY the people who coined it. Many times that coin gets deposited centuries or even millenia after it was struck, for a multitude of reasons.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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