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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1609036, member: 26302"]It happens all of the time. Heck, they legitimately found ancient Roman coins in US harbors and a few dimwitted historians tried to postulate how the Romans sailed here. The truth was that when ships in Europe take on ballast, sometimes there would be roman coins in the ballast material. Remember that a lot of the ancient coastline is now underwater, (and a lot is now miles inland). Shorelines change all of the time.</p><p><br /></p><p>The OP's coin COULD have been dropped by a chinese laborer, or its just as likely dropped more recently. These cash coins were cast by the tens of billions, and all were in circulation until after WWII in China and all of SE Asia. If you added up all lincoln cents produced versus cash coins, I am not sure which would be more numerous.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1609036, member: 26302"]It happens all of the time. Heck, they legitimately found ancient Roman coins in US harbors and a few dimwitted historians tried to postulate how the Romans sailed here. The truth was that when ships in Europe take on ballast, sometimes there would be roman coins in the ballast material. Remember that a lot of the ancient coastline is now underwater, (and a lot is now miles inland). Shorelines change all of the time. The OP's coin COULD have been dropped by a chinese laborer, or its just as likely dropped more recently. These cash coins were cast by the tens of billions, and all were in circulation until after WWII in China and all of SE Asia. If you added up all lincoln cents produced versus cash coins, I am not sure which would be more numerous.[/QUOTE]
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