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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clawcoins, post: 8669272, member: 77814&quot;]excerpts from</p><p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/old-gold-coin-nl-1.6646200" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/old-gold-coin-nl-1.6646200" rel="nofollow">Gold coin discovered in Newfoundland could be oldest English coin in Canada | CBC News</a></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5">The coin, a quarter noble, was minted 70 years before recorded English contact</font></p><p><font size="5"><b>[ATTACH=full]1520397[/ATTACH]</b></font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">A gold coin discovered on Newfoundland&#039;s south coast could rewrite the history books on the European presence in the region.</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">The coin, a quarter noble, dates back to the 1420s and the reign of Henry VI, making it likely the oldest English coin ever discovered in Canada.</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">Provincial archaeologist Jamie Brake told CBC News the coin is in excellent condition.</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">&quot;It came out of the ground looking like it had been minted yesterday,&quot; said Brake on Wednesday.</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">The find is older than the&nbsp; previously oldest-known English coin, also found in Newfoundland, in 2021. That coin, a half groat found at the Cupids Cove Plantation provincial historic site, dated to the 1490s.</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5"></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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