17th century rare gold coin recovered in N.L. - Canwest News
Jun 13
Call it the 17th century equivalent of losing your bank card - and then picture the owner losing his mind trying to find it. Sometime around 1627, the owner of a very valuable gold coin lost it at an early British colony on Newfoundland’s Avalon Peninsula.
Archeologist Jim Tuck, who dug the rarity out of the stone footing of a house this week at the Colony of Avalon, says how it got there is anybody’s guess, but the erstwhile owner - maybe the man who founded it in 1621, Lord Baltimore, himself - didn’t let it go very easily
Entire article: 17th century rare gold coin recovered in N.L. - Canwest News
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