Gaius Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 Yahoo News (03/04/2014) - Shilling discovery could rewrite Canadian history Victoria (Canada) (AFP) - An amateur treasure hunter with a hand-held metal detector has turned Canadian history on its head after finding a 16th century shilling buried in clay on the shores of Vancouver Island. The 435-year-old coin discovered in western-most Canada has rekindled a theory that a British explorer made a secret voyage here two centuries before it was discovered by Spanish sailorsFull Story - http://news.yahoo.com/shilling-discovery-could-rewrite-canadian-history-064412680.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steel Pan Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 That's a cool find!One little prob.The date on the coin (s), only shows that it/they couldn't havebeen deposited there prior to that specific date on the coin (s).The article said that 20th century coins were also found?I don't see how a fisherman from the 1960's, who just lost thecoins when a branch tore his pants pocket, can be rulled out? I think I would want more evidence before I changed history. Did I miss something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klunker Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 Interesting. I found a 1772 German schilling from Mecklinbeg in Plumas Co. I'm rewriting the county's' history as we speak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steel Pan Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 Interesting. I found a 1772 German schilling from Mecklinbeg in Plumas Co. I'm rewriting the county's' history as we speak.Wasn't that brought in by the Italians? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoser John Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 I dredged up a piece of eight about 10 years ago RRRRRRRRRRRR pirates in shasta county hahahaha-John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LipCa Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 I also found a 1772 coin here in Siskiyou county... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steel Pan Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 Seems like everybody has been everywhere before anybody got there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaius Posted March 4, 2014 Author Share Posted March 4, 2014 I don't know if I want to talk to you folk's anymore, I usually find zero, nil, zilch, naught, and few 9mm rounds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garimpo Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 Don't feel to bad Gaius, I've been pounding the ground for over two months now, almost every day and not even one little tine nugget!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Wiseman Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 It's interesting how people discover a land that's been populated for thousands of years.kind of like filing over someone's claim,but obviously more serious than that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoser John Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 (edited) Much more fun too-like when they tore up the streets of Coulterville and a quanity of gold coins turned up. Or many years ago right down the 49 from ya when they did that street work in sonora and started a gold rush right in the middle of town...sooo much fun-John Edited March 5, 2014 by Hoser John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LipCa Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 1907..... GOLD COIN FOUND IN COULTERVILLE STREET Money Lost Many Years Ago Is Revealed •by Buggy Wheel BERKELEY, Feb. 16.— A story of. the finding' of gold coin In the streets of Coultervllle, Marlposa- County, Is told by George -H. Brown, a commercial . traveler living at 2124 Klttredge street, who has Just returned from a tour that embraced : Coulterville. While driving through the town the wheel of Brown's vehicle turned ;up -a. five-dollar piece. Examination showed that the dirt was thickly sown with gold and in a few minutes $415 had been found by citizens,, J. The coin is supposed to have: been 1 lost by a merchant when the town I burned down sixteen years -ago: He j had placed It in a leather bag that { eventually was . buried in the street. (The bag finally rotted and the wheel of [brown's buggy served to reveal the hldi ing place of the lost treasure. .'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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