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Buried in a Truro yard, a 313-year-old find

Silver sixpence is older than the Cape town

By Stewart Bishop
Globe Staff / June 3, 2009

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As Truro prepares to celebrate its 300th birthday next month, one local man has found an artifact that predates the town itself. (Full article: 478 words)

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