That Roman coin in Ohio turned out to be real after all

My buddy found a crusty old coin while digging a fence post hole on his farm near Cincinnati. He swore it was Roman but I laughed it off, figured it was some old toy or a souvenir. Took it to the archaeology department at the local university, and they confirmed it's a 4th century bronze from the Roman Empire. How it ended up in Ohio is anyone's guess, but I owe him an apology. Anyone else ever had a find that seemed fake but checked out?

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the_rowan15d ago

Viking traders made it further inland than historians think.

robin89615d ago

Viking traders made it further inland than historians think." Maybe one of them dropped it and a squirrel carried it across the Atlantic. Seriously though, your buddy's find sounds wild. I've got a magnetic rock collection that I keep swearing is meteorite iron, but every time I show someone they just say it's slag from an old smelter. At least he got a real Roman coin, I just get junk that looks like it fell off a 1950s tractor.

viola_garcia5614d ago

The coin's been through a lot of hands in 1,600 years. @the_rowan, got a source for that Viking claim?