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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1815902, member: 19463&quot;]While I find great interest in your article and the newspaper piece it mentions, I fail to see any of this can be taken to prove anything other than someone or some series of people (Chinese or not) carried a coin (for trade or lost pocket piece or whatever) into Africa at some time before the article was written.&nbsp;&nbsp; Coins of Roman Britain have been found in North America but that does not mean Allectus sailed there in the late 3rd century AD.&nbsp; One guess is that they were in the gravel carried as ballast of fur traders to the St. Lawrence but that is no more proven than is any other theory.&nbsp; Certainly it is good to review such finds and see what can be derived as reasonable explanations but a coin in Kenya means no more toward proving direct contact between the Ming and the Kenyans than Augustus wearing silk would prove he got it from a Chinese national on a direct mission from Wang Mang.&nbsp; I am glad the newspaper stuck it that bit about the reason behind the hole being for attachment to a belt.&nbsp; It makes it easier to discount everything they say as poor journalism.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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