Ancient coins appear in the USA (west coast, etc...) of not only that, but back to ancient times. Heck, in my neighborhood, where I grew up, all the houses were built in the late 1950s. As a kid, I roamed all the parking strips and ...... believe it or not .... found a silver British coin from the 1870s . Gasp. Now OF COURSE it was a modern loss. But the point is, SO TOO is the explanation plausible for all such ancient coins found here. I know of a Roman coin from about 100 AD found in Monterey, CA . *Obviously* a modern pocket loss
I don't know why modern people seem to think that *only* modern people collected coins and souvineers. For example: all the WWI and WWII GI's returning from over-seas, brought back coins and souvineers from those countries. And I don't know why modern people seem to think that ancient coins weren't a novelty, even back in the old days. For example: There was a "fad" of egyptology even in the 1920s, where it was vogue to get an ancient coin, if you were travelling through those old world countries. Yup, from road-side tourist stands (even to this day), it's not impossible to buy an ancient coin.
And while it's odd for people to be carrying something in their collection, to "fumble fingers loose it", yet ....... why is that so hard for us to think can happen? Heck, we find diamond rings, and all sorts of things "people didn't intend to loose" ALL THE TIME.
Human nature is human nature. And ancient coins have been collected, found, collected, found collected, and ..... yes lost again, all the time. A buddy of mine found an old coin still in the plastic sleeve on the beach one -time. And this sort of reminds me of the comical story of some archies in the pacific northwest (OR or WA) years ago, who found a chinese cache coin in an indian midden site. The cache coin dated to something like the 1600s. So the archies were "all over themselves with glee", as if this somehow proved the chinese were in the pacific northwest long before the Europeans or Russians got there. Little do they know, that those silly cache coins (with the square hole in the center) circulated for 100's of years, and can/could be lost with utterly no bearing on the date of mint. Yup, it's not uncommon to find those cache coins from that old, even in RR worker and coolie camps in the west, that didn't get the chinese till the gold rush or RR building era. Hence we know that the dates mean nothing.
So too can it happen with coins from other countries.
Sorry to burst anyone's bubble. But no, it's not a conspiracy, or proof that "someone else was here first" , etc.....
georgia canuck: I don't know the web address of the canadian md'ing site you're referring to, but feel free to cut & paste this there (or link it, etc...)
