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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsimonel, post: 2586235, member: 82549&quot;]Often ships used mud for ballast. A ship from Europe trading with the US might load up the hull with mud to keep it floating at the correct height after all the trade goods were loaded on. Later, when the ship arrived at port in the U.S., say, at Atlanta, the workers would off load the goods and load the ship up with new goods to bring back home. If the weight of the new goods was greater than that of the original load, they&#039;d just scoop out enough mud to bring the ship up to the correct height in the water.</p><p><br /></p><p>One hundred or so years later, come along and scoop up a lot of that same discarded material to use as a road bed, and voila, there&#039;s your coin!</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, I&#039;m pretty sure that I can make out &quot;C_D&quot; on the left side of the obverse inscription, which pretty much confirms that it&#039;s Arcadius.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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