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Message:: [QUOTE="Ken Dorney, post: 2529687, member: 76086"]There have been threads like this before, but I will relate again my one story.  I was at the local post office (Redding, California) picking up mail.  On returning to my car I barely noticed a coin in the parking lot.  Being the son of a very poor Irish immigrant I was always taught to pick up coins, penny or otherwise.  So I doubled back and picked it up.  Turns out it was a Chinese Song Dynasty coin, about 1,000 years old.  How did it get there?  Who knows.  Chinese were instrumental in California history, many coming here to work the railroads (and elsewhere).  But, Redding?  A small tiny town in the backwoods?  But, even as small as our community is, there was a rich Chinese history.  In some places one can still dig out broken Chinese pottery from the old settlements.  So, I figure that coin was either brought to this country by those Chinese immigrants and ultimately passed down and lost in the parking lot, or maybe some collector simply lost it out of their pocket.  Sadly, it had no monetary value, it had been run over by countless cars so that it was barely recognizable (except to me, likely none others here).  Dont remember what I did with it.  I think I gave it away.[/QUOTE]