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Message:: [QUOTE="WashQuartJesse, post: 16319087, member: 18323"][USER=116145]@MIGuy[/USER], That Henry VI is a wonderful and intriguing piece. In my opinion, it does not have anything to do with when the first European’s were in Canada... The discovered piece was most likely (IMO) a later bring-over. New France was starved of “coinage” from the get-go and nobody was collecting “coins”… unless you include the habitants of New France that hid/melted their silver or gold coinage from the authorities. In other words, if it was silver or gold, or had a "wash" such as the billon, it was of value. Age wouldn't have mattered. Any coin comprised of PM, especially gold, would have been regarded as far “more than stated value” during the French Regime. The “found” piece was discovered along the St. Lawrence. The non-indigenous people that originally settled this region were mostly from northern France / Normand’s. The English Channel is pretty narrow and it seems most likely to me, that the find, is a result of the abovementioned. The ¼ noble (IMO) was most likely brought over by a habitant or merchant (maybe even a pirate lol) many moons later. With all that “bashing” aside, your coin is still an amazing type w/ documented early N. American history.[/QUOTE]