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FANTASY COIN 'FIND' IN VIETNAM
Howard A. Daniel III is Viet Nam, and he submitted the following about a recent coin 'find' there. Thanks! -Editor
Your Oak Island 'Roman Sword' Find item in the latest E-Sylum was right on time with something I was getting ready to send to you! Just this week in Viet Nam, a brother-in-law, Quang, here in Viet Nam, forwarded a Vietnamese newspaper to me with an item about someone finding some old rare coins in the ground. The item is on page 19 of the Thanh Nien newspaper of November 28, 2015. It shows the reverses of two copper "coins" identified as "old" Nguyen Dynasty coins of Emperors Gia Long and Minh Mang. I sent the item to Craig Greenbaum in Houston to confirm my suspicions and he confirmed they are fantasy tourist items sold in Hue and many other cities and locations in Viet Nam. My wife, Phung, found them for sale in a Buddhist temple gift shop in the Mekong Delta several years ago. The "finder" of the coins likely buried them on his property and "found" them so he could sell them for a lot of money to an unsuspecting fellow Vietnamese or foreign tourist. This is not the first time this has happened in Viet Nam and I know it will be happening again. 
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