[Palter]

Zheng He, etc. ping. Shrug, my bias, is getting in the way of comment. Independent verification, etc.

[bunkerhill7]

Does this mean that Obummer is really Chinese?

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Nitpicky point, but if it’s made of brass, how can it be “rusty”?

Anywise, how could Chinese coins reach West Africa that early? By trade, that’s how. Chinese coins used in East Africa, as people use them in further trade, they make their way west. While I have no qualms against Zheng He (except that’s he’s been claimed, at one point or another, to have discovered everything except methane oceans of Europa), this does not necessarily prove that he, or any other Chinese fleet, was there.

[ReneeLynn]

Soon the Chinese will claim to have been the first in North America.

[ozzymandus]

I don’t doubt that the coin was found, but so what?

[I am Richard Brandon]

"A joint team of Kenyan and Chinese archaeologists found the 15th Century Chinese coin"

Would an Indian archaeologist have found an Indian coin, and would a Japanese archaeologist have found a Japanese coin?

[BBell]

ping

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[eleni121]

The 1400s AD? Laughable. That was modern history for the Europeans. The Byzantines were all over East Africa long before that. Dittoes others.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

I’ll say it:

IT’S PROBABLY A FAKE.

China is hugely active in counterfeiting coins. Lots of them on fleabay. Lots.

If it’s a coin, and it advances any Chinese agenda.

It’s probably a fake.

[wildbill]

the Chinese authorities ran DNA tests on a number of villagers who claimed Chinese ancestry. “

I would imagine the ladies of the East Africcan coasts would have been glad to see some guys sail in with some coins in their chests.

“Been at sea long, sailor? Me give you good time.”