Archaeological dig in Newfoundland unearths what could be Canada's oldest English coin

For all my fellow Canadians out there...

https://www.cp24.com/news/archeolog...uld-be-canada-s-oldest-english-coin-1.5660624

 

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Congratulations, @romismatist, and all you folks in that mysteriously civilised country north of the border! The other side is shown in the BBC article.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59252280
It's remarkable that it circulated that long; it really looks as if, by the time it got to Newfoundland, it had really been through the wars.
Along similar lines, here's my later, profile issue, Archb. Bainbridge of York.


I've posted all of this before, with sincere but inexorably insufficient apologies. But the story couldn't help reminding me of the Tudor-early Stuart rose harness pendant found during excavation of an ancestor's house and lumber mill in what's now southeastern Maine. (Last four paragraphs.)
https://www.oldberwick.org/historty...adbourne-16151667-pioneer-of-old-berwick.html
...So I had to find this one, from a detectorist in (from memory) East Anglia.

 

Yay for Newfoundland!!

My dad, who is from Newfoundland, called me up as soon as he saw the article.

Erin

 

Cool!! The last AMCC had one of @TheRed's Henry VII halfgroats in it, although it was from the York mint and slightly later:

 

That’s awesome!

One of my biggest dreams is to find a coin over 250 years old.

Sadly I live in California so there is nothing to find in terms of coins.

I’ve always wanted to go metal detecting in England or Italy or Greece. Apparently it requires a license in the latter two cases so it wouldn’t be possible.

If I did find a cool really old coin though I would happily hand it over to a museum or university if they requested it.

There is just something magical about finding something that old that no one knew was there.