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To: TobagoJack who wrote (82693)11/3/2011 11:22:35 PM
From: Snowshoe  Read Replies (2) of 217908
 
>>As and when they discover the 1421 chinese coin<<

Did you read the article? They have discovered a Chinese coin that old in Canada! ...

Two other old Chinese coins have been found in the territory. One, found near Beaver Creek by Keary Walde in 1993, dates to 1403-1424. Until recently, the coin was believe to have been minted in the 1880s. But, after Mooney made his find, he checked the ages of the other coins with Gary Ashkenazy, an expert in old Chinese coins.

“He said, ‘That coin from Beaver Creek isn’t from the 1880s. It’s from 1403 to 1423. I just about died.”

That site also appears to have predated the Gold Rush. Yet the coin was found with pig bone.

“That’s also an oddity, because there was no pig in the Yukon at that time,” said Mooney.

Perhaps the ancient coin was traded in long after it was minted. Or, Mooney wonders, perhaps the Chinese visited the West Coast before Europeans did.

P.S. Photo of Tlingit armor vest covered with Chinese coins, from the American Museum of Natural History...

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