1 published discovery from Bahamas — coins, hoards, jewellery and artefacts recovered by detectorists and archaeologists.
Global Finds has 1 find from the Bahamas, a famous historical find. It is filed under coins. It is the Long Bay blanca, San Salvador, struck between 1471 and 1474.
The law: In the Bahamas, as in most countries, archaeological finds are protected by national heritage law: report anything old or unusual to the national heritage authority, and never dig at a known site or export a find without permission.
Famous findStruck between 1471 and 1474
In the 1980s excavations at Long Bay on San Salvador in the Bahamas, a traditional candidate for Columbus's first landfall in 1492, uncovered Spanish beads, buckles and a single small coin: a blanca of Henry IV of Castile, struck between 1471 and 1474.
