Basement Find

  I have always heard that dirt basements are a great place to hunt, especially in the winter, when the ground is frozen solid. The thing is, this basement doesn't have a dirt floor, but is 99% poured concrete with just a dirty hole in one corner for a submergeable pump. My friend Ronald and I have been performing some minor restorations down there and while scraping around in the mucky pump hole, he spotted a greenish little disc-shaped object, which turned out to be a coin! He cleaned it off in the water and found it to be a quarter-sized coin of Arabic origins, the year and denomination of which I have yet to research, but here are a few shots: