The son of the discoverer of five antique coins said to have the potential to rewrite Australian history said his father was told they were worthless. Read more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/nat...e-worthless-20130521-2jyct.html#ixzz2VU10082v The late Morry Isenberg found the five copper coins on a remote beach off the Northern Territory coast while serving in the air force in 1944. His son Norman says Morry donated them to the now-defunct Mint Museum in Sydney in the early 1980s after a major Sydney coin dealer rejected them as having no value. On of the coins found on Wessel Islands, off the Northern Territory coast. Interest in the coins, now kept at the Powerhouse Museum, and dated from the 12th to the 15th centuries, has been revived by Australian scientist Ian McIntosh, currently a Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University in the US. According to AAP, Professor McIntosh is planning an expedition in July to the Wessel Islands, off the Northern Territory, to seek further clues, antique coins or relics. Norman Isenberg, of Lane Cove in Sydney, said his father, who died in 1991, worked as a radar operator with the RAAF on the remote islands off Arnhem Land following the Japanese bombing of northern Australia in World War II. He found the coins while fishing on Marchinbar Island. Norman said his father marked the location on a map given to him by a civilian coastwatcher. Some reports state that Morry Isenberg marked a map with an X. But Norman 1for1
The coins have been identified and are African in origin. A bit over 1000 years old apparently and are exceedingly rare with only 2 locations outside Africa being found before. i would suspect a ship wreck or a very lost Pirate
