A Peculiar Coin Find in Upstate NY

[grasshopper]

Was detecting an 1830's house last weekend.

Pulled out what I initially thought was a large cent, but it turned out to be a " 5 Centesimi" coin from San Marino, a tiny landlocked country in Italy.

I've found plenty of Canadian coins up here, but can't say I've ever seen one from San Marino. Wonder how it ended up in the front yard of a house on Lake Champlain

Happy Hunting!!

 

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[ncsuwolf]

Was detecting an 1830's house last weekend.

Pulled out what I initially thought was a large cent, but it turned out to be a " 5 Centesimi" coin from San Marino, a tiny landlocked country in Italy.

I've found plenty of Canadian coins up here, but can't say I've ever seen one from San Marino. Wonder how it ended up in the front yard of a house on Lake Champlain

Happy Hunti

Was detecting an 1830's house last weekend.

Pulled out what I initially thought was a large cent, but it turned out to be a " 5 Centesimi" coin from San Marino, a tiny landlocked country in Italy.

I've found plenty of Canadian coins up here, but can't say I've ever seen one from San Marino. Wonder how it ended up in the front yard of a house on Lake Champlain

Happy Hunting!!

Could have been brought back from a trip to Europe as a souvenir or from a soldier. No real way to tell

 

[pepperj]

That's a different recovery, well dug.

 

[ArfieBoy]

Congratulations on a very cool coin! Thanks for sharing.

 

[AU Seeker]

Was detecting an 1830's house last weekend.

Pulled out what I initially thought was a large cent, but it turned out to be a " 5 Centesimi" coin from San Marino, a tiny landlocked country in Italy.

I've found plenty of Canadian coins up here, but can't say I've ever seen one from San Marino. Wonder how it ended up in the front yard of a house on Lake Champlain

Happy Hunting!!

Between 1880 and 1924 over 4 million Italians immigrated to the USA, and I'm sure many if not most entered the country in the northeast, so it not hard to imagine a few of them could be from that area of Italy and have a coin or two like that they lost.

The Great Arrival | Italian | Immigration and Relocation in U.S. History | Classroom Materials at the Library of Congress | Library of Congress

Italian earthquake refugees board ship for the U.S., 1909. Most of this generation of Italian immigrants took their first steps on U.S. soil in a place that has now become a legend—Ellis Island. In the 1880s, they numbered 300,000; in the 1890s, 600,000; in the decade after that, more than two...

www.loc.gov

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

An excellent find - congrats !
I found a 1921 - Italian 10 Centesimi coin here in Ohio a few years ago.

 

[BigWaveDave]

Great find!!!!
Can I be the one up guy for a minute?
I once found an 1864 Indian Rupee from the Hyderabad region….. in my neighbors 1950 yard in Ft Myers.
People can lose anything, anywhere, at anytime.

 

[oldmxrat]

Cool and unusual find, congrats!

 

[Trezurehunter]

Nice old foreign coin !

 

[Digger RJ]

Was detecting an 1830's house last weekend.

Pulled out what I initially thought was a large cent, but it turned out to be a " 5 Centesimi" coin from San Marino, a tiny landlocked country in Italy.

I've found plenty of Canadian coins up here, but can't say I've ever seen one from San Marino. Wonder how it ended up in the front yard of a house on Lake Champlain

Happy Hunting!!

Very Cool!!! I found one of those in SW Missouri. Congrats!!!