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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 3107309, member: 10461"]Well, ancient coins can be found anywhere somebody dropped one, in the USA or elsewhere. But if you want ancient coins <i>in an original, ancient archaeological context</i>, you pretty much have to be somewhere on the Eurasian or African continents.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm reasonably confident that the Roman coin I found here in Georgia spent 150-250 years in the ground, but I'm not surmising that there were Roman legions here or anything. I'll leave that sort of speculative nonsense to the "History" Channel.</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3">Speaking of speculative, but perhaps not </font><i><font size="3">complete</font></i><font size="3"> nonsense...</font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p>I still haven't rewritten my <i>Mysterious Ming Medallion </i>story, about one of my most famous finds. I promised a friend I would do that and submit the article to <i>The Numismatist. </i>Still need to do that. In the meantime, I will let <a href="http://www.chinausfriendship.com/article1.asp?mn=201" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.chinausfriendship.com/article1.asp?mn=201" rel="nofollow">Dr. Lee</a> tell the story of the artifact, if not the details of how I found it. Controversial revisionist historian Gavin Menzies also wrote about it in his book <i><a href="http://www.gavinmenzies.net/books/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.gavinmenzies.net/books/" rel="nofollow">Who Discovered America?</a></i> and mentioned me and the find several times.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, the Ming Dynasty is not quite ancient.</p><p><br /></p><p>More <i>medieval</i>. And this was not a coin.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Diggers%20Diary/Asiawindposter.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 3107309, member: 10461"]Well, ancient coins can be found anywhere somebody dropped one, in the USA or elsewhere. But if you want ancient coins [I]in an original, ancient archaeological context[/I], you pretty much have to be somewhere on the Eurasian or African continents. I'm reasonably confident that the Roman coin I found here in Georgia spent 150-250 years in the ground, but I'm not surmising that there were Roman legions here or anything. I'll leave that sort of speculative nonsense to the "History" Channel. [SIZE=3]Speaking of speculative, but perhaps not [/SIZE][I][SIZE=3]complete[/SIZE][/I][SIZE=3] nonsense... [/SIZE] I still haven't rewritten my [I]Mysterious Ming Medallion [/I]story, about one of my most famous finds. I promised a friend I would do that and submit the article to [I]The Numismatist. [/I]Still need to do that. In the meantime, I will let [URL='http://www.chinausfriendship.com/article1.asp?mn=201']Dr. Lee[/URL] tell the story of the artifact, if not the details of how I found it. Controversial revisionist historian Gavin Menzies also wrote about it in his book [I][URL='http://www.gavinmenzies.net/books/']Who Discovered America?[/URL][/I] and mentioned me and the find several times. Of course, the Ming Dynasty is not quite ancient. More [I]medieval[/I]. And this was not a coin. [IMG]http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Diggers%20Diary/Asiawindposter.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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