You never know

[Pops]

When you hear that beep you never know what is really there until you dig. I was hunting one of my favorite spots and got a signal which read 62 on the TID. Now this is usually pull tabs or similar trash but since I had recovered several pieces of jewelry I dug it up. It was about the size of a dime but covered with the green oxidation like copper. When I got it home I started removing the green and started to see some detail. After two weeks of carefully removing the oxidation and searching the internet I discovered it was a Roman Arcadius coin from 401-403 A.D. If I were in Europe I would pleased but not surprised to find a Roman coin. But I'm in Oklahoma! What is a 1600 year old coin doing here? I learned two valuable lessons from this hunt: You can find anything anywhere and dig everything because you never know.

 

[John(Tx)]

By the way it looks, it's been in the ground a very long time. Wonder if it was lost by an early explorer? Great find. HH

 

[thompy]

well there are some rumors of the romans beeing in the states due to a possable copper trade, dont know why they would have been so far south

 

[Jackpine Savage]

Excerpt from "The Truth Seeker"

thetruthseeker

Long before Columbus is supposed to have discovered the Americas Vikings and early Celtic Christians may well have trod the shores of North America, and before them others even more ancient. The discovery of various Roman coins around the U.S has led some researchers to conclude that America was the final destination for a wave of people who came not as colonists but as refugees. The coins, which have been found largely around the Mississippi-Arkansas-Ohio-Missouri river systems, cover the later periods of Rome and particularly the reigns of Antoninus Pius, Gallienus and Emperor Tetricus. A period of Roman rule that Gibbon describes as a time of

 

[BuckeyeBrad]

n/t

 

[coenwolf]

i once had a very long thread going on a uk md forum about pre-columbus migration to the u.s.a ,we had both come to the conclusion that there was a fair chance that king arthur ?? and his followers who were the last remaining romano brits ,departed from wales in search of a new homeland they were fleeing the saxons who had taken the place of the romans and gradually took over the whole of the u.k from the east to the west in that order .the last remaining defeated group then set sail for a new land and almost certainly sailed up the missisipi river ,settling in the area around where st louis is now ,i cannot remember the name of the tribe that used to live there but they lived in fortified settlements and when first discoverd by white settlers in the 1600's apparently spoke a old type fluent welsh ,and could converse with the settlers of welsh descent ,this tribe died off from white mans diseases soon after so the mystery remains .there is also a church wall painting somewhere in middle england that depicts a king /knight in armour type figure being put to death by what can only be described as be-featherd red indians the only problem being that it was painted in the 1100's .
so in conclusion do not doubt your coin it may well be contempory and dropped by a early explorer of your country .i hope in this small brief i have given you clues that could lead to someone making a major breakthrough the truth is out there you just have to find it .
if i remember more or can dig up the old archived thread on ukdn i will, it makes extremely good reading and clive cussler would make a good book out of it thats a certainty

 

[thompy]

there have been roman coins and idols found on the east coast and Phoenician coins found on Isle Royal in Lake Superior, also a Celtic prayer stone in the ford river, near Escanaba

 

[mikewaz]

What a cool piece of history!
Such great information in these replies too. That's what I love about this hobby... I learn something new just about every day.
Mike

 

[DMCguy]

Michigan last summer. In fact I found 2 but one was badly damaged.

I posted the whole story on Tnet and for some reason several members were ticked that it never made banner.

Anyway, since then I've gotten emails from people all over the US who have dug Roman coins while THing in this country.

DMCguy (Michigan Badger on Tnet)

 

[thompy]

DCM, have you seem any of the tablets that were uncovered in many county's down state in the mounds when the farmers were starting to cultivate the land, many had Christan carvings, with strange writting, some what similar to roman or eastern influences, early Archy's said they were all fakes planted in i think it was 18 counties, many were destroyed

 

[coenwolf]

look at my post and absorb the info ,a lot of research went into those findings