A handful of coins unearthed from a pick-your-own-fruit orchard in rural Rhode Island and other random corners of New England may help solve one of the planet's oldest cold cases.
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The villain in this tale: a murderous English pirate who became the world's most-wanted criminal after plundering a ship carrying Muslim pilgrims home to India from Mecca, then eluded capture by posing as a slave trader.
"It's a new history of a nearly perfect crime," said Jim Bailey, an amateur historian and metal detectorist who found the first intact 17th-century Arabian coin in a meadow in Middletown.
That ancient pocket change – among the oldest ever found in North America – could explain how pirate Capt. Henry Every vanished into the wind.
Every's exploits have inspired a 2020 book by Steven Johnson, "Enemy of All Mankind;" PlayStation's popular "Uncharted" series of video games; and a Sony Pictures movie version of "Uncharted" starring Tom Holland, Mark Wahlberg and Antonio Banderas that's slated for release early in 2022.
