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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 3147888, member: 10461"]Neat thread. This kind of stuff fascinates me.</p><p><br /></p><p>This sort of thing might explain how I found a <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/diggers-diary-the-arcadius-anomaly-repost-from-one-of-my-old-treasurenet-threads.287141/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/diggers-diary-the-arcadius-anomaly-repost-from-one-of-my-old-treasurenet-threads.287141/">late Roman AE2</a> of Arcadius, circa 395 AD, in a North American archaeological context, on a colonial site dating from the mid-1700s AD.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course there are many other alternate scenarios, but I have a strong hunch that this coin made its way to Georgia from England, maybe in ship's ballast, and my pet theory is that it was subsequently found and put to use as a "farthing" in someone's colonial pocket change. </p><p><br /></p><p>Or maybe it had already been found in England or Europe when it got put back into circulation and carried to America as pocket money.</p><p><br /></p><p>Judging from the context in which I found it, and the other artifacts discovered with it, it was likely lost sometime between the 1760s and the mid-1800s, though one can only speculate how it got there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 3147888, member: 10461"]Neat thread. This kind of stuff fascinates me. This sort of thing might explain how I found a [URL='https://www.cointalk.com/threads/diggers-diary-the-arcadius-anomaly-repost-from-one-of-my-old-treasurenet-threads.287141/']late Roman AE2[/URL] of Arcadius, circa 395 AD, in a North American archaeological context, on a colonial site dating from the mid-1700s AD. Of course there are many other alternate scenarios, but I have a strong hunch that this coin made its way to Georgia from England, maybe in ship's ballast, and my pet theory is that it was subsequently found and put to use as a "farthing" in someone's colonial pocket change. Or maybe it had already been found in England or Europe when it got put back into circulation and carried to America as pocket money. Judging from the context in which I found it, and the other artifacts discovered with it, it was likely lost sometime between the 1760s and the mid-1800s, though one can only speculate how it got there.[/QUOTE]
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