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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 12849134, member: 10461&quot;]Ming <i>coin?</i>&nbsp; Not quite.</p><p><br /></p><p>But while metal detecting in North Carolina in 1994, I found a mysterious brass <i>medallion</i> with a Ming dynasty inscription, which later caused quite a stir with some of the proponents of the controversial <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Menzies#1421:_The_Year_China_Discovered_the_World" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Menzies#1421:_The_Year_China_Discovered_the_World" rel="nofollow">1421 hypothesis</a>.&nbsp; It was featured extensively in Gavin Menzies&#039; later book <i>Who Discovered America?</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>His<i> 1421: The Year China Discovered America </i>book was published in 2002, several years after I found the medallion, but some time before I had posted that online and Dr. Siu-Leung Lee acquired it from me, using it as the centerpiece of his Hong Kong lecture tour in 2006.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1528610[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Was my &quot;Mysterious Ming Medallion&quot; find evidence of a Chinese fleet landing on the east coast of America in 1421?&nbsp; I have no idea.&nbsp; I <i>do</i> know it was old- most definitely- but I was assuming it a century or less old before someone read the inscription on it.&nbsp; I found it in an old churchyard on top of a hill in a small town in North Carolina.&nbsp; It was a few feet away from where I had dug a well-worn 1894-O Barber half the day before, and a few inches deeper than the half dollar had been.&nbsp; The medallion sat in my &quot;interesting junque and whatzits&quot; drawer for over a decade before I scanned pictures of it and posted it online for identification.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you go to the Amazon page for <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Who-Discovered-America-Peopling-Americas/dp/0062236784?asin=0062236784&amp;revisionId=&amp;format=4&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.amazon.com/Who-Discovered-America-Peopling-Americas/dp/0062236784?asin=0062236784&amp;revisionId=&amp;format=4&amp;depth=1" rel="nofollow">Menzies&#039; book</a>, click &quot;look inside&quot; on the cover photo for a preview, and use my last name (Shinnick) in a keyword search, you can read the story of the find.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>PS-</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Ha!&nbsp; Look what I just stumbled across.&nbsp; Here is the story again (slightly garbled), in a different book I had never even heard of until just now.&nbsp; I only discovered I was in the Menzies book when a friend just happened to pick it up in a bookstore and see my name in it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now here&#039;s an excerpt from <i><a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Ancient_Explorers_of_America/ty2UQH9aggIC?hl=en&amp;gbpv=0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Ancient_Explorers_of_America/ty2UQH9aggIC?hl=en&amp;gbpv=0" rel="nofollow">Ancient Explorers of America</a></i>, by someone named Aleck Loker, which I just stumbled across in a Google Books search a moment ago.&nbsp; Amazing.&nbsp; I never knew I was in this book, or that it even existed.&nbsp; And it came out in 2009.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1528613[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=44615]@paddyman98[/USER] - [USER=92655]@Randy Abercrombie[/USER] - check that out.&nbsp; Pretty trippy for a metal detecting find, eh? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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