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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2794241, member: 10461&quot;]<font face="Verdana"><font size="4">My oldest &quot;found on the ground&quot; coin is pretty astonishingly old!</font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="4"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="4">And yes, this was an &quot;eyeball&quot; find.&nbsp; Did not even have my detector that day.&nbsp; I was walking in a dirt lane by a very old colonial cemetery when I found it.&nbsp; (There are marked stones in that cemetery going back to before the Revolution - I&#039;ve seen one from 1767 out there.)</font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="4"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="4">Articles:</font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="4"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="4"><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/">&quot;The Arcadius Anomaly&quot;</a> (CoinTalk thread)</font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="4"><a href="http://goldenisles.news/news/local_news/brunswick-resident-unearths-roman-coin-in-georgia/article_ff6e8176-8b0f-5d06-84d9-437ac607052c.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://goldenisles.news/news/local_news/brunswick-resident-unearths-roman-coin-in-georgia/article_ff6e8176-8b0f-5d06-84d9-437ac607052c.html" rel="nofollow"><i>&quot;Brunswick resident unearths Roman coin in Georgia&quot;</i></a> (press article, <i>The Brunswick News</i>)</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Bronze nummus (Æ2) of the Eastern Roman emperor Arcadius, circa 395 AD, found in an 18th century colonial context in Midway, Georgia, USA.</b></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="4"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="4"><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/RomanMidwayFind800x425-brightened.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="4"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="4"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="4">(Keeping a sharp eye in such places on the &quot;nekkid dirt&quot; - i.e., bare earth, where there&#039;s no grass or vegetaion - has paid off for me several times.)</font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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