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Show ANCIENT COIN IN INDIAN MOUND Chicago, March 18 . Discovery of an ancient Roman or Greek coin in an ; inoiB Indian mound at least three hundred years old may open an un revealed "epoch in ancient American history, according to Dr Alfred Dm-erson, Dm-erson, prominent numismatist of Chi-rago. Chi-rago. Dr Emerson said that be never had seen a coin like It and could only I fci-mate fci-mate that It had been made in Rome or Greece in the period between 260 B C and 260 A. D. "It shows." he said, "that there muni have been some prehistoric connection con-nection with the American continent before the white invasion or that some one of the earlier explorers hap pened to possess the coin and it fell Into the Indians' handB li is hard to understand how one of the.se c.t plorrs could have in his possession a coin more thnn 1,000 years old " |