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Digger's first booty: 1600s coin

StaircoinsStaircoins Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭
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Not exactly a MD story, but thought it was interesting enought to post here anyway ...

Whitney Parrish, an anthropology student from Portland, Maine, recently discovered this nice little Spanish coin while working a South Berwick archaelogical site:

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,673 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Cool little half-real cob, from the looks of it. A buddy of mine dug one near here once.

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  • TreashuntTreashunt Posts: 6,747 ✭✭✭✭✭
    nice, I'd love to find one
    Frank

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  • pcgs69pcgs69 Posts: 4,343 ✭✭✭✭
    Wow! Cobs are on the want list of many. I have a buddy in Portland. Was actually thinking of visiting him in the next few weeks. Maybe the e-trac will come along haha.
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