So? Being 200 years older doesn't mean they were put there 200 years before Columbus. There are some ancient Egyptian artifacts in New York (museums). That isn't evidence of ancient contact.
Coins might be old, but they might have been brought there centuries after Columbus discovered the Americas. Yes, a mistery, but of a different kind.
Since some of the other coins post-date Columbus (by several hundred years), the stash pretty much has to have been brought there after Columbus landed.
This is fitting, since the whole reason anybody lives in Utah is that some dude claimed to find ancient gold tablets in a New York forest.
That and some excellent mountain bike trails.
> "If that really is a 13th-century coin, that does not indicate 13th-century Spanish were over here,' said Harmon. 'That indicates that someone brought over a coin that was really old even then.'"
Mystery solved.
Pretty obviously a prank or a hoax. The 1660 coin is worth less than $50 and the if the older coin is in such bad shape even the experts aren't sure what it is I don't imagine it's outrageously valuable.
The Daily Mail is rubbish.
Found “lying on the floor,” eh? Out of someone’s pocket, rather than Doc Brown’s DeLorean.