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10 Top theories on... How does a Chinese Coin end up on Oak Island:
No. 10
When Martin Frobisher is laughing all the way to the Bank after he has arranged to sell a boat load of Fool’s Gold to a Chinese Syndicate at Oak Island for an exchange of Coinage.
He then stops laughing when he discovers the coins are not gold and finds the interpretation of the embossment on the coins to translate as…
”Negotiable only in China”.
No. 9
After a Great White Shark picks off a Chinese Swimmer
far from shore…It swims around the World and gets picked off while swimming
near to shore… by an Oak Island fisherman.
All that is left in its stomach is a Chinese coin.
No. 8
From a travelling Chinese Monk who throws a coin into the Jesuit’s Baja California Mission’s…Offering Plate.
Prior to these Jesuits expulsion from Mexico... these coins are sent to their Havana Cuba Cathedral.
The Royal Navy’s Freemasons sack Havana in 1762 taking all plunder from this Cathedral back to Oak Island.
No. 7
When Commodore George Anson returned in 1743 from his Canton around the World Voyage…he returned with a boat load of Chinese coinage.
He proceeded to pay his Cornish Miners tunneling and digging the Oak Island Money Pit with this coinage…I believe he received a courteous Middle Cornish reply…
Kidge dhe vez !
Cornish Swear Words
No. 6
When the Canadian Grenadiers returned to Oak Island in 1762 after sacking Cuba…they devised a game called Chinese Coin Toss.
They would toss a Chinese Coin with the object for it to land with the square hole over the point of a bayonet blade…the loser had to take and dispose of all the coinage used.
No. 5
During Francis Drake’s around the World Voyage in 1577…he plundered many Chinese Pirate Ships.
These Pirate Ships were quick to pawn off a large part of these coinage…they convinced Drake these coins were gold coins.
Arriving at Oak Island to prepare their crossing back to England… he realized his folly and buried the lot there to minimize his embarrassment and save his head from the Ax Man...he was not successful!
No. 4
It was the Great Past Grand Father of Erno Rubik, who while stationed on Oak Island with the Depositors…devised a Chinese Puzzle…in which the purpose was... who could be the fastest in placing one of the many different sized round pegs in a bag through a Chinese coin’s square hole.
This game has only caught on recently with Election Officials... using it to determine the mental qualifications required for voting!
No. 3
How early Chinese Immigrants into Canada would try and skip their coinage across the channel onto Oak Island.
They were charged with
Illegal Littering.
No. 2
Left open…for
Naysayers.
And now the No. 1 most likely theory as to how a Chinese Coin landed on Oak Island:
Why the coins are scattered around the island?... may be due to last year’s Chinese Tourists...many upon arriving at Oak Island...discovered that
Oak Island Tours would not accept their coins for the $25.00 entrance fee.