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The other was a bronze object stamped with a Chinese character found in a 13th century context on the banks of the Thames in London.Īnd the type of currency the Chinese coin represents - minted during the reign of the Song Dynasty - remained in heavy circulation right through the 14th Century. She points out a shard of distinctive Chinese blue-and-white porcelain was uncovered in a 14th Century archaeological site in Winchester. “Whilst no other medieval Chinese coins are known from Britain, this find would not stand entirely alone as a medieval-era East Asian import to these islands if it is genuine,” Dr Greens states. Nothing about this diverse scattering reveals anything about the Chinese coin.

RELATED: The hunt for China’s lost treasure fleet has modern political impact Among them were two Roman coins, medieval lead weights, medieval copper casting offcuts - and 15 objects, ranging from musket balls to rings, dating between the 16th and 18th Centuries. The Chinese coin was found among a range of apparently random objects within a 100m radius. “Nonetheless, although the possibility of a loss from a curated collection certainly cannot be discounted, it can be perhaps overused as an explanation for ‘surprising’ finds,” writes Dr Green. It turned out to be a much more modern collection, stashed away for safekeeping - and forgotten.

Instead, its fate seems likely to have been more recent.ĭr Green points out a hoard of 107 Chinese coins dating between the 1600s and 1800s was found buried in Cumbria. The odds are against this coin being dropped by a touring trader. 1365-8, with the figures at the centre identified as an English knight of the Garter talking to a Mongol. A detail from the fresco 'The Way of Salvation/The Church Militant and the Church Triumphant', c.