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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 645493, member: 19463&quot;]My first thought seeing this is that the coin certainly is old and Roman but that does not mean it was lost anything like 200 BC.&nbsp; The state of preservation could suggest anything from pot find rather than straight from the soil to a loss some time in the last century out of a collection.&nbsp; This is where exact details of the find and appearance before cleaning would be nice.&nbsp; To be historically significant, it would be nice to link the coin to even a suggestion that it spent any time in the UK before Claudius.</p><p><br /></p><p>Does anyone recall a few decades back when a British/Roman (Allectus, I believe) coin was found along the St. Lawrence in North America?&nbsp;&nbsp; Some, as I recall, suggested it meant the Romans visited the New World in the 3rd century AD.&nbsp; Others suggested that fur traders used ballast from UK river dredging gravel for the trip to North America which they dumped when they loaded furs.&nbsp; Either explanation works.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I have failed to find a write-up about this but that could mean my Google skills are lacking.&nbsp; If anyone has a link to the story, I would appreciate hearing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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