Chinese Coins Mystery: Did Medieval Asia and Britain Interact?
Britain’s antiquities experts have mostly written them off as a loss from a curated collection, but the presence of two Chinese Northern Song dynasty (960 – 1127 AD) coins unearthed at separate sites in England have people wondering about the links between Medieval Asia and Britain.
A Cambridge University archaeologist says these coins support the idea that Britain and east Asian groups were interacting in 13th and 14th century.
Are the Ancient Chinese Coins Genuine Losses?
The first coin was found in 2018 in Cheshire and is the first known example of a Chinese coin from the Northern Song dynasty period discovered in England, according to News.com.au. The Independent reports that the previous discovery is now joined by another 25mm copper-alloy coin that was recently discovered in a field in Buriton, near Petersfield, in Hampshire.
The Chinese coin discovered in Hampshire. (Hampshire Cultural Trust)
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Joseph Olson
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It will be truly delightful when the WuFlu hysteria and political kabuki theater is finished, and Truth is restored in science and history. We have a fascinating Universe yet to discover. Lord, deliver us from evil.
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John
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There is a TV show in the U.S. about Oak Island, Nova Scotia. They recently found a Chinese coin from pre-1200 on the island. They don’t know how it got there, but are assuming it was dropped there by a European visitor hundreds of years ago.
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Andy Rowlands
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This is very interesting. I rather suspect there was more contact between the ancient peoples than we know, because little evidence has survived.
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