Martin Purdy writes:

What bothers me is that it looks like the discovery was done two years ago by a Chinese/Kenyan team and is now claimed by "scientists from Illinois". Even when another coin was found by another team two years later, it is not right to treat it as a new discovery, treated in isolation from what has already happened.

To read the complete thread, see:Topic: Rare 600 year old Chinese Coin found in Kenya(www.worldofcoins.eu/forum/index.php/topic,20729.msg140454.html#msg140454)

Joe Boling writes:

Howard A. Daniel III writes:

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:CHINESE COIN FOUND ON KENYAN ISLAND(www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v16n11a18.html)