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A bit further afield in space and time, but Roman coins were pierced
and/or mounted as jewellery and are found in C5-C6 graves in Eastern
England.
Dr Matthew H Johnson
Dept of Archaeology
University of Durham
South Road
Durham DH1 3LE
U.K.
Tel 0191 374 4755
Fax 0191 374 3619
On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, BONNIE J. CLARK wrote:
> Mark C. Branstner wrote :
> > Second, I'm not convinced that Native Americans were the only folks punching
> > holes in coins or wearing them suspended from strings. Within the past
> > decade, I recovered a punched, early nineteenth century German coin from a
> > farmstead site near Flint, Michigan. For me, the most logical interpretatio
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> > for the artifact was as an immigrant keepsake.
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> > Just a cautionary... but I think the assumption that any punched coin
> > represents Native American decorative use is too general.
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> I would have to agree with Mark. In Colorado we recovered a punched
> walking liberty quarter from a Hispanic nunnery. It still had a few links
> of the gold chain attached.
>
> Bonnie Clark
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