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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 4547439, member: 10461&quot;]And then there&#039;s the tale of the (allegedly early-15th century) Ming Dynasty Chinese medallion I dug in North Carolina in 1994.&nbsp; But that&#039;s another story.&nbsp; (And it wasn&#039;t technically a coin.)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1125760[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Gavin Menzies wrote about it in his <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Who-Discovered-America-Peopling-Americas/dp/006223675X" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.amazon.com/Who-Discovered-America-Peopling-Americas/dp/006223675X" rel="nofollow">Who Discovered America</a></i> book.&nbsp; Menzies&#039; work has always been controversial,&nbsp; but interesting.&nbsp; It was Dr. Siu-Leung Lee who translated (and got excited about) my medallion find, taking it on a lecture tour in Asia (see poster above).</p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t tell you anything else for sure except that I did indeed dig it (despite Menzies&#039; critics casting doubt on that).&nbsp; It was on an early site with European settler activity as far back as 1794 and Native American occupation long before that. I have little doubt the artifact was old, and had been in the ground a long time.&nbsp; But <i>1420s</i> old?&nbsp; Who knows.&nbsp; Prior to Dr. Lee&#039;s examination of it I had initially just assumed it was only about 50-75 years old rather than 570.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1125761[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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