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Kjartanski t1_iw4i4zy wrote

Reply to comment by piponwa in 600-year-old coin may be oldest found in Canada by IslandChillin

There were Norse in Greenland until at least 1408, and the most recent carbon date is in the 1430s. That is, fram the late 900s to at least 1430 there were Norse in the Americas, and in Newfoundland there is a Norse Settlement dated to 1021

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PoopLogg t1_iw4u9vu wrote

Exactly. The Norse very well could have coinage from trade with or sacking of British isle villages.

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LargeMonty t1_iw4upyj wrote

The Norse weren't raiding in the 1400s though.

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PoopLogg t1_iw4z8j9 wrote

I mean not to be pedantic but that's just as far as we know

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LargeMonty t1_iw50m6c wrote

It isn't impossible, just as far as I know it wasn't a recorded pattern since centuries before.

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