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The Maine penny, also referred to as the Goddard coin, is a Norwegian silver coin dating to the reign of Olaf Kyrre King of Norway (1067–1093 AD). It was claimed to be discovered in Maine in 1957, and it has been suggested as evidence of Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact .
Today Maine Cottage operates an interactive e-commerce website and maintains a design blog. Along with the digital channel, the company produces a coffee table style catalog, coined its “Color Book.” [1] The first catalog, printed in 1989, featured 5 pieces of furniture and 3 paint colors. Generally the Color Book is produced every other ...
A coin similar to the Maine penny. Unusual finds at the site include worked copper, including some of European origin that were found in a Late Ceramic period grave of two children, alongside clay artifacts. [3] The most unusual find, however, is the Maine penny, a silver coin of Norse origin, dating to the reign of Olaf Kyrre (1067–1093 AD ...
The population of Castle Rock was 1,280 by 1959 and around 1,500 in Needful Things.According to the book cover, Needful Things was "The Last Castle Rock Story". However, the town later served as the setting for the short story "It Grows on You", published in King's 1993 collection Nightmares & Dreamscapes.
An avid coin collector shelled out more than $2.5 million at an Orlando auction last Thursday -- the most anyone has ever spent on a one-cent piece. This 1792 Birch Cent is one of around 10 ...
This entry should be updated in the light of the discussion of the Maine Penny in Gordon Campbell's Norse America: the Story of a Founding Myth (Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. 167-72. Unlike far too much of what has been written about the Northmen in North America this is a sober, non-partisan and scholarly book.
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