Submitted by IslandChillin t3_ysz38k in history
Devil-sAdvocate t1_iw4nazf wrote
Reply to comment by Dinglederple in 600-year-old coin may be oldest found in Canada by IslandChillin
Not Canada, but the Maine penny, also referred to as the Goddard coin, is a Norwegian silver coin dating to the reign of Olaf Kyrre King of Norway (1067–1093 AD).
This was found by an amateur archeologist in the 1950's at an extensive archeological site at an old Native American settlement at Naskeag Point on Penobscot Bay in Brooklin, Maine. That location is about 500 miles south of Newfoundland.
The Goddard site has been dated to 1180–1235. Much of the circumstances of the finding of the coin were not well preserved in the record (as was the case with the majority of the other 30,000 finds, none of which included anything else Viking related).
Dinglederple t1_iw4rdri wrote
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