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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 4547429, member: 10461&quot;]I do think this is how my Roman coin find came to America and ended up on that colonial-era site.&nbsp; The sand roadbed (near one of the earliest churches in GA) was not a ballast spoil area (too far inland), but I think the coin was probably found in ballast or carried over in someone&#039;s pocket aboard a ship in the 18th century.</p><p><br /></p><p>Shortages of small change being what they were in the colony at the time, it is not difficult to imagine someone carrying this coin to use as a farthing in change (if not as a curiosity).&nbsp; We relic hunters find an amazing variety of world coinage on early sites here.</p><p><br /></p><p>On one site, within a relatively small area, I found a 1782 British &quot;Hibernia&quot; halfpenny struck for Ireland (actually a contemporary counterfeit), a 1782-A 2-sous piece struck for the French colony of Cayenne (ditto), and a 1779-Mo Spanish Colonial 2-reales coin struck at Mexico City.&nbsp; The two 1782 coins were close enough together that I think they were dropped by the same person at the same time.&nbsp; All of which goes to show you what a mixed bag of stuff was circulating around here at the time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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