Thanks Renfield. Somehow I managed to miss this back in May, luckily we'd had a topic about it.
Posted on 05/22/2013 8:07:24 AM PDT by Renfield
thank you for the information. I did not know this.
1000-year-old coins found in Northern Territory may rewrite Australian history
News.com.au | 20 May 2013 | BARBARA BARKHAUSEN
Posted on 5/20/2013 4:31:34 PM by Theoria
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3021760/posts
“On 26 February 1606, Willem Janszoon made landfall at the Pennefather River on the western shore of Cape York in Queensland, near the modern town of Weipa. This is the first recorded European landfall on the Australian continent. Janszoon proceeded to chart some 320 km of the coastline, which he thought was a southerly extension of New Guinea.
Finding the land swampy and the people inhospitable (ten of his men were killed on various shore expeditions)...”
Maybe the coins were buried with one of these men.
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