Interesting coin finds

Here is a topic where you can post and talk about interesting coin finds, like ones on the news or historical ones.



1500 2 Öre coins from the 1700s found from Sulkava, 2017

Plate money found from a small city during the 1990s.

I saw this video a year or so ago and it made me want to take up metal detecting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDC3SUK3axM

Quote: "neilithicman"​I saw this video a year or so ago and it made me want to take up metal detecting.
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​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDC3SUK3axM

​I saw that too, and it made me wonder what a bunch of 5 Franc coins were doing in some river in the US. I know Spanish reales were used in the US up until as late as the 1850s, but the 5 Francs are a mystery to me.

And of course, a year ago someone found an almost unique Turku coin in a sugar beet field. https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-9711106
I think im gonna buy a metal detector soon...

Quote: "CassTaylor"​

Quote: "neilithicman"​I saw this video a year or so ago and it made me want to take up metal detecting.
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​​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDC3SUK3axM

​​I saw that too, and it made me wonder what a bunch of 5 Franc coins were doing in some river in the US. I know Spanish reales were used in the US up until as late as the 1850s, but the 5 Francs are a mystery to me.

​Actually, I remember reading this, written from Ohio by Charles Dickens in 1842 about currency in the United States at a time when the Panic of 1837 was worsening, and the Second Bank of the United States had failed the previous year (making it's notes obsolete):

"...consider at your leisure, the strange state of things in this country. It has no money; really no money. The bank paper won't pass; the newspapers are full of advertisements from tradesmen who sell by barter; and American gold is not to be had, or purchased. I bought sovereigns, English sovereigns, at first; but as I could get none of them at Cincinnati I have had to purchase French gold; 20 franc pieces; with which I am travelling as if I were in Paris!"
-Charles Dickens

Took me a while to dig up the source:
​https://books.google.fr/books?id=McBxDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT4030&lpg=PT4030&dq=dickens+consider+at+your+leisure+the+strange+state+of+things+in+this+country&source=bl&ots=qOz04D6z8G&sig=cI17WxGBs9Afodqd4LoeqxfagSA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiy6I7L1LfdAhVKEHAKHRmUCBIQ6AEwAnoECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=dickens%20consider%20at%20your%20leisure%20the%20strange%20state%20of%20things%20in%20this%20country&f=false