moneydog Posted November 21, 2007 Report Share Posted November 21, 2007 Could someone go to this link and tell me what the coin is if possable ID Coin please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottishmoney Posted November 21, 2007 Report Share Posted November 21, 2007 Edward I(1272-1307) English penny, minted in London. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedeadpoint Posted November 21, 2007 Report Share Posted November 21, 2007 That coin was found in Maryland!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedeadpoint Posted November 21, 2007 Report Share Posted November 21, 2007 Whoops... I meant to use ?!!!! instead of !!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geordie582 Posted November 21, 2007 Report Share Posted November 21, 2007 Edward I Class 4E london mint. Three pellets on breast and one on reverse before LONDON. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneydog Posted November 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2007 Thanks a lot guys and gals this was a big help. This came from a metel detecting website I go to they had a lot of it answerd but no one had it pegged and you all did. So thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KurtS Posted November 21, 2007 Report Share Posted November 21, 2007 Found under an old foundation in Maryland? What a find! I'm really wondering at the history of how that coin possibly got there. I'm quite sure that archaeologists working that area would love to know about your find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneydog Posted November 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2007 I have an idea in years past they used to put a Coin on the corner stone for good luck. There have been many found in England. Thats my idea about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottishmoney Posted November 21, 2007 Report Share Posted November 21, 2007 When I lived in Maryland my brother and I used to haunt the excavations at St. Mary's city down in S. Maryland when the archaeologists were digging there. Talking to some of them, especially about coins, they said they had found things like 17th century English tokens, and other oddments that really didn't belong there, but must have been found in England and brought over as souvenirs. Similarly Roman coins have turned up in English shipwrecks, one in Bermuda that I can recall. But they used to dredge up the river banks for ballast for the cross Atlantic journey, and the coins must have been in the stuff dredged up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KurtS Posted November 21, 2007 Report Share Posted November 21, 2007 I have an idea in years past they used to put a Coin on the corner stone for good luck. There have been many found in England. Thats my idea about it. Interesting, especially if there is a traditional precedent. Still, I find that an extremely old coin for an early American farmer to have, much less put under a foundation. Out here, an Elizabethan sixpence was unburied at an Indian site near where Sir Francis Drake is purported to have landed in 1579. The current theory is that Drake gave this coin to a local tribe during his visit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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