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Coin that could tear up Australian history

Mail Online
Australia may have been visited by Portuguese seafarers more than 250 years before Captain James Cook arrived on the continent.
That is one theory being examined by scientists in Australia as they try to trace the origins of an African coin which was found on a beach last year.
The copper artefact, which is one of several similar finds, is believed to be a Kilwa coin from what is now Tanzania and could date back almost 1,000 years.
But how the coin ended up on the Wessel Islands off northern Australia is not yet clear.
One possible explanation is that the Portuguese, who had raided Kilwa in 1505, left the coin behind on their travels in south-east Asia.
Portuguese seafarers were in East Timor by 1515 and could potentially have reached the Australian mainland. That would make them probably the first Europeans to reach Australia.
It would also mean they were there some 250 years before Captain James Cook laid a British clai m to the continent
Speaking to the Guardian, archaeologist Mike Hermes said: “The Portuguese were in Timor in 1514, 1515 - to think they didn't go three more days east with the monsoon wind is ludicrous."
Discussing the coin, he said: "We've weighed and measured it, and it's pretty much a dead ringer for a Kilwa coin. And if it is, well, that could change everything."
Hermes found the coin lying on a beach on the Wessel Islands last year, saying it had no intrinsic value.
The Wessel Islands are the only place outside Kilwa and the Arabian peninsula where such coins have been found, Hermes said.
Hermes was building on the work of Royal Australian Air Force radar operator Maurie Isenberg, who had found five Kilwa coins there in 1944.
Isenberg also found four Dutch coins of a far lower value.
He kept the African coins hidden away for decades until they were finally donated to a Sydney museum in 1983.
They have prompted a wave of speculation about whether Portugal was the first European power to reach Australia.
It has also been suggested that Kilwa traders could have brought the coins from Africa themselves, or been shipwrecked while trying to do so.
The coins may also simply have been washed ashore from elsewhere.
Scientists in Australia are now examining the new coin in a bid to discover its secrets.