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A man with a metal detector has found a long-hidden, 222-year-old coin under a few inches of soil outside a church in Maine.
The Bangor Daily News reports that Shane Houston was on a metal-detecting trip with a friend from New Hampshire when he found the coin earlier this month.
He said it was found on the grounds of a church in Embden where he had permission to use his metal detector.
The copper penny, dated 1798, comes from the first decade of American-minted money in North America.
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