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Thanks, I will contact Russ.
Ben
Ben Resnick
Group Manager, Cultural Resources
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Ben,
With the potential discrepancy in site occupation and coin date, is it
possible that the coins were recirculated? I recall a similar
situation
in Michigan with 16th century French coins appearing on a late 17th
century mission site (see references below). You may want to contact
Russ Skowronek on these coins as well. His email is
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- he has significant experience with Spanish sites in the Southeast as
well as California.
Skowronek, Russel and Max Houck
1990 The Non-Destructive Identification of Worn Coins from the
Marquette Mission Site, St. Ignace, Michigan. American Antiquity,
55(2):337-347.
Skowronek, Russell
1988 Of Countermarks and Coins: The Earliest French Issues in the New
World. Michigan Archaeologist 34(3):43-50.
Cheers,
Sean B. Dunham, RPA
Commonwealth Cultural Resources Group, Inc.
Phone: 517-788-3550 / FAX: 517-788-6594
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