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Metal Detecting Finds in Kenya

1 published discovery in the Coins category from Kenya — coins, hoards, jewellery and artefacts recovered by detectorists and archaeologists.

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Famous findCast in the Yongle reign, about 1408 to 1424 · found 2012

The Manda Island Coin: a Chinese emperor's coin dug up in Kenya on the first day of the dig

Kenya · Coins

In December 2012, on the first day of excavation on Manda Island off the coast of Kenya, a Field Museum team found a Chinese coin of the Yongle Emperor. It shows that trade linked Ming China and the Swahili coast in the early 1400s.