Mysterious find
Many years ago, I must have been about 15, I was on holiday in the Alps with my family. One beautiful day me and my dad left the rest of the family roop and headed off for a hike the heavily forested sloped above our campsite.

We had been walking for a few hours, following old game trails and dried stream beds, hoping to reach the ridge without following any real paths, when I noticed a strangely shaped object nestled amongst the leaves.

Deciding this merited further investigation, I picked it up; a small, soil-covered disc, and pocketed it without much thought, and we continued to battle our way through the dense undergrowth in search of a vantage point where we could eat our lunch.

Sated by our sandwiches, I dug out my find and we scraped back the years of mud and dirt to reveal an early 18th century Napoleonic coin.

How it came to be lying near the surface in the leaves on a tiny game trail miles from civilization I cannot even begin to explain. It is not worth a great deal (maybe £20-30?) but to me its one of my greatest finds merely due to the sheer coincidence of the situation!
(Roopy all is not what it seams, Fri 7 Nov 2008, 15:47, 2 replies)

Not saying it is related, but Napoleon and his forces DID cross the Alps
During the Italian Campaign around 1800. Still a cool find anyways.
( The magic of chutney Shakes it like an Instagram filter!, Sat 8 Nov 2008, 1:11, closed)

yeah but
in the hundred or more years that had passed how come it was resting ABOVE many years worth of fallen leaves?

thats what gets me!
(Roopy all is not what it seams, Sat 8 Nov 2008, 18:09, closed)