[SunkenCiv]

Among the most probable of theories is that the coin dropped out of a miner's pack as they walked along the Aboriginal trail on the way to the Hodgkinson gold fields west of Cairns.

Yeah, because ancient coin collections are often found the backpacks of itinerant miners. Same stupid argument is made regarding ancient coin finds in North America. Columbus is actually the source of the first report of an ancient coin in the Americas, how about that.

[hanamizu]

Yeah, because ancient coin collections are often found the backpacks of itinerant miners.

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The Egyptian/Ptolemy coins are big, heavy and impressive, and surprisingly, not all that hard to come by. Lots of people were in Egypt digging up things 100 years ago and Ptolemic coins aren’t that rare. One could well be a lucky charm a miner might carry with him. Much more likely than the other scenarios.