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Metal detectorist Denise Schoener, of Hanson, Mass., searches for historic coins and artifacts in a farm field in Little Compton, R.I., Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022. One coin at a time, the ground is yielding new evidence that in the late 1600s, Henry Every, one of the world's most ruthless pirates, wandered the American colonies with impunity. Schoener found a 17th century silver coin with Arabic inscriptions in 2019 in a field in Little Compton. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Murderous 1600s pirate hid out in U.S. colonies with impunity

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Amateur historian Jim Bailey uses a metal detector to scan for Colonial-era artifacts in a field, Thursday, March 11, 2021, in Warwick, R.I. In 2014, Bailey, who holds a degree in anthropology from the University of Rhode Island, found a 17th-century Arabian silver coin at a farm in Middletown, R.I., that he contends was plundered in 1695 by English pirate Henry Every from Muslim pilgrims sailing home to India after a pilgrimage to Mecca. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Ancient coins may solve mystery of murderous 1600s pirate

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