A resident of Amsterdam (Netherlands) cleaned in his closet and stumbled upon an interesting item: a round metal plate with small letters of NE on one side and a Roman number III - on the other. For several years this artifact was stored in the owner’s house, and last year he finally decided to ask the experts what it is and how much it costs. About this writes the publication Daily Express.

The Netherlander turned to connoisseurs and soon found out that the metal plate actually turned out to be a rare coin with a face value of three pence, made on the territory of New England 1652.

This find is incredibly rare - only two copies are known in the world in the world. Experts believe that she could belong to John Adams - the second president of the United States. The politician served as an ambassador to Holland, and then led a young country. According to one version, the coin could go abroad in this way.

The owner put up a unique historical memo of the 17th century at the New York auction Stack's Bowers (USA), where it was bought for $ 2.5 million. It is reported that a similar coin has been stored in the collection of Massachusetts Historical Society for more than 120 years.

We will remind, earlier the treasure hunter, which is registered in Tiktok under the nickname Prospector Tuck (@Prospectortuck), often tells on his page about interesting things found thanks to the metal detector. Recently, conducting large-scale search work on the farm of the 1700s, the man found two American coins released more than a century ago.

In addition, after 20 years of search, the Briton found a rare coin in the field. Paul Cipvel for decades visited the same place until he discovered several Roman and medieval coins.