> “..there’s this kid who finds an Italian coin in a field. The coin? Minted around 450 B.C. How it got to the field? No can speculate or explain. Italian travelers from two thousand years ago? Maybe. But you can’t prove that.”<
As a teenager in Miami, I had an ancient Roman bronze coin that — dope that I was — I decided I’d start carrying as a lucky charm. It wasn’t lucky for me. I lost it in a few days, probably on a field where we used to play pick-up football. If anybody finds it, it’s mine!
I read somewhere that Roman coins are not particularly valuable as there are still a lot of them around.
I suspect certain ones would be tho.
A friend of mine found an 1482 English coin in a playground in Hayward, California in 1980`s with his metal detector.. This had been part of San Leandro Bay before it was drained and used for houses etc in 1800`s. The playground would have been the bottom of the bay then coz it was shallow enough for a vessel to enter- My hunch is that Drake used San Leandro Bay to repair his ship coz it is very quiet there and the waters are still enough for such work and the Ohlone Indians were there...
I have a Roman coil, from the time of Julian. He reformed the coinage, putting in more silver, and less lead, about 361 AD (CE).
Coins travel, and last a long time.