🥇 BANNER Originally posted on the "What Is It" board for an ID .. This is crazy!

[creskol]

I was trying out my new Legend today and found this coin. It was identified by Red-Coat as being a 4 dinero coin of Henry III (1390-1406). Kingdom of Castile and Leon (Spanish states). How it ended up in the fields of Central Virginia is a mystery to me.

 

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[Peyton Manning]

It was dropped by the oak islanders as they carried the arc of the covenant to oak island

 

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[creskol]

It was dropped by the oak islanders as they carried the arc of the covenant to oak island

I thought the busman dropped it near Church Hollow.

 

[ARC]

Johnny Appleseed dropped it ?
Headless horseman ?
The British are coming guy ?

I got it...
Forrest Gump dropped it.

 

[JohnWhite]

A lost colonist from Roanoke could have dropped it…

Ed T

 

[scruggs]

The old saying holds true here "treasure is where you find it!"

 

[oldmxrat]

That's just an incredibly cool find, congrats!
Now go find something older.

 

[creskol]

That's just an incredibly cool find, congrats!
Now go find something older.

Thank you, oldmxrat. I was hoping to get out today to see what other goodies I could scratch up with my new Legend, but it was not to be. Hopefully tomorrow will be a nicer day.

 

[cannonball]

I was trying out my new Legend today and found this coin. It was identified by Red-Coat as being a 4 dinero coin of Henry III (1390-1406). Kingdom of Castile and Leon (Spanish states). How it ended up in the fields of Central Virginia is a mystery to me.View attachment 2081482View attachment 2081483

That's a pleasant surprise! Congratulations

 

[tamrock]

Definitely a find of mysterious wonder there Creskol. I'm thinking Columbus maybe traded it for something the natives could provide and it somehow ended up where you found it. 🙂

 

[ARC]

The only way the mystery will be solved is for you to post it in The Random Chat Thread.

 

[l.cutler]

The colonists here used all kinds of European coinage. A copper was worth... a copper, no matter where or when minted. Thats why the fields in Virginia are often full of old Spanish and other coinage seemingly unrelated to the date of initial European occupation. Its a great find, but 99.99% likely it was used or hoarded right up into the 1700s. Plus carbon dating only works on organic material.

Very true! I collect and study colonial coins that circulated in America. I have even read of Roman bronze coins circulating along with other coppers!

 

[tamrock]

Very true! I collect and study colonial coins that circulated in America. I have even read of Roman bronze coins circulating along with other coppers!

Right! I can only think people might of had a fascination in collecting and keeping old coins for as long as coins had been produced. In the 1960s when I was a kid, collecting old coins was very much a hobby me and my friends were into. We often went to see what we could buy at a local coin shop with the little money we had or search for old coins still in circulation. It was more popular than collecting sports cards, hot wheels and comic books in those times.

 

[Blak bart]

Wow thats bad arse !! Congrats creskol I missed this thread !!

 

[Lenrac2]

Epic find! Banner for sure! Congrats!!

 

[creskol]

Thanks again, everybody! It definitely was a surprise to me.

 

[mjb Mike]

What a cool find banner vote here

 

[creskol]

What a cool find banner vote here

Thank you, Mike.

 

[Kona Koma]

I was trying out my new Legend today and found this coin. It was identified by Red-Coat as being a 4 dinero coin of Henry III (1390-1406). Kingdom of Castile and Leon (Spanish states). How it ended up in the fields of Central Virginia is a mystery to me.View attachment 2081482View attachment 2081483

Great find.

 

[ARC]

Agreed.... Banner.

 

[Tpmetal]

dunno how this snuck by me, but what an odd and awesome find! Yes many other countries copper coins were used here in early US history, shoot even all the way into the 1800s. things like the slave trade an spice trade ended up having coins from all sorts of areas make it here. I have found some weird ones like a 1802 1 duit coin, and a 1680 spanish copper cob