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va3ser

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Hi all Last year my wife and I went MDing in a park that has not been hunted. it is still used for soccer but the people there do not realize the age of the area and what was there before. My wife dug up this coin.She thought it was 2 loonies.(our $1 Can. Coin) After that I dug up this Canadian bank half Penny token. What is interesting is How did this American LC get all the way up here? and was this person a traveller? Maybe it was in a collection and they tore the building down ? Maybe the building was deserted and no one thought to check around? really interesting.
 
Nice find's! We don't see either of those coins out west.
If I saw a large cent or any of those other older U.S. coins come out of my holes I would have the big one!
HH Ed in co
 
va3ser said:
Hi all Last year my wife and I went MDing in a park that has not been hunted. it is still used for soccer but the people there do not realize the age of the area and what was there before. My wife dug up this coin.She thought it was 2 loonies.(our $1 Can. Coin) After that I dug up this Canadian bank half Penny token. What is interesting is How did this American LC get all the way up here? and was this person a traveller? Maybe it was in a collection and they tore the building down ? Maybe the building was deserted and no one thought to check around? really interesting.
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It was pretty normal in earlier times for "foreign" coins to circulate freely, far from their homeland - especially if their was a shortage of local "legal tender" coins. It took a good while for the new governments on North America to get their act together and produce coins in large enough numbers to satisfy the needs of commerce and until they did, any coin made from copper, silver or gold was pretty much as good as the next. Our modern coin systems are complete abstractions, lacking any significant link to intrinsic precious or semi-precious metal value - not so back then.

-pete
 
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