"In 1963, a construction engineer found a small hoard of coins while excavating the north bank of the Ohio River...Troy McCormick, then manager of the new Falls of the Ohio Museum in Clarksville, Ind... identified the smaller coin...as a bronze of Claudius II, from 268 A.D. The larger coin has been identified...as a follis of Maximinus II, from 312 or 313 A.D...The exhibit has recently been removed from public display, because the Museum belongs to the state of Indiana, and the exhibit conflicted with the state's archaeological policy that there is no documented evidence of pre-Columbian contacts..."
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