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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 25898216, member: 10461&quot;]Yes, I know that.&nbsp; <i>Firsthand</i>.&nbsp; I found one.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>And that scenario in the last sentence is almost certainly what happened.&nbsp; It came over on the boat, maybe in ship&#039;s ballast, likely from England, and probably during the colonial era.&nbsp; Or such is my pet theory, anyway, based upon the other artifacts in the same washout where I found it.&nbsp; It might have done service as a farthing in the 18th century, when small change was desperately needed and few people would have cared enough to save it as a curiosity.&nbsp; It would have only <i>vaguely</i> resembled a farthing of the era- and been a bit too thick- but I suspect few people would have paid much attention to it at the time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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