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    1821 George IV milled gold full sovereign 1602 Elizabeth 1st hammered silver half groat - 7th issue - 2 mint mark

    1422 -1427 Henry VI hammered silver penny - annulate issue - pierced cross 1

    1 in 2 quadrants

    Obv + HENRICVSxREXxANGLIE

    Rev - CIVI/TASLOND/DON

    1871 Victoria milled silver sixpence
    1602 Elizabeth 1st hammered silver half groat - 7th issue - 2 mint mark 18thC apothecary weight
    Fascinating hammered copper coin -with Scottish Thistle on rev.
    Charles I (1625-1649) copper turner or half groat (two pence). Obverse: Crowned "CR". Legend: "CAR D G SCOT ANG FRA ET HIB R" (Charles by the grace of God King of Scotland England France and Ireland). Reverse: Thistle: "NEMO ME INPVNE LACESSET" (No one shall hurt me with impunity).

    2- 1640's English Civil War lead gun powder measure and cap
    2ndC Roman trumpet brooch Medieval harness pendant - some gilding remains

    circa 10thC Anglo- Scandinavian harness cheek piece

     

     

    18thC possible 1.25 carat 'Mine cut' diamond gold ring - reported as potential treasure 4.17g, 17.64 mm dia
    20thC 14k gold Mexican Madonna pendant Great condition 1694 William III copper penny

    2ndC Roman silver sent for ID - cleaned up now

    2.94g, 16.76mm

    1stC Roman silver sent for ID

    2.94g, 16.76mm

    If you believe in "good omens", this might well be a hint that this will be an exceptional season.  This denarius is scarce-to-rare and in demand as a "dynastic piece", portraying all three of the Flavians.  Vespasian issued it and the two figures seated on curule chairs on the reverse are Titus and Domitian.  This piece, from the mint at Rome (* see below), dates to relatively early in Vespasian's rule, c. 69-70.

    The legends are "almost" clear to read now, if you know what you're looking for.  I trust that if you cook this one, the legends will become much more readable in general. The obverse - portrait of Vespasian - is: IMP CAESAR VESPASIANVS AVG / the reverse, with the seated Caesars is: TITVS ET DOMITIAN CAESARES PRIN IVEN* - PrincipiI Iuventutis: "The Princes of Youth" (which was an official and titled position, it can also be read as "The young princes" which is just a description - Latin syntax does not depend on the order of words in a sentence so occasionally interpretation of quotes and inscriptions can be a bit ambiguous and when defining the original intent may be open to opinion.

    References:
    RIC vol II, i (new edition), Vespasian 6 (var - see note *) "rare", (25 in the old edition of vol II) ; RSC (Vespasian) 541b; SRCV 2403. 

    * Something else which might be a bit ambiguous is the attribution to Rome.  The piece quoted by RIC has a reverse legend which ends in "..IV" rather than "...IVEN".  In fact, RIC II, i, does not quote the IVEN ending at all except in the footnotes. The IVEN ending, evidently, is associated with the mint at Lyon (Lugdunum) but is quoted only from a plated piece.  I need to check with the "Not In RIC" folks and see if this is a typo, or whether this is a significant, unpublished rarity.

    Mark

    PS - I had never looked at the "Not in RIC" site before and it turns out to be only for vols VII & VIII - I might run this one past Curtis Clay, although looking at the listings in the "old" RIC II I see the IVEN variety listed, so it may only be a typo or simple omission in the new RIC.

     

    1816 George III milled silver sixpence   18thC clog fastener
    15thC copper thimble

    Post Medieval cast copper alloy single loop buckle frame.

    1500-1650 AD

    19thC livery button

    French copper- alloy Jetton 1380AD Obv Shield of France bearing three fleur de lys

    Rev trefoil x 4 Ottery St Mary

    Greta patina - 1860 Victoria milled copper penny
    Georgian lead tobacco jar lid handle 19thC livery button 1914 George V milled silver sixpence
    Heavily decorated Georgian spur
    19thC livery button Rare 19thC Essex Militia button Neat Georgian buckle
     
    Medieval annular buckle   1500-1770 pole finial mount
    Roman lead ballista shot - 1.5 lbs - 55.9mm L
    Post medieval lead bale seal

    4thC House of Constantine bronze sent for ID

    This piece is a posthumous commemorative of the "Empress" Theodora, 2nd wife of Constantius I.  These were struck as part of the continuation of the large emission of Centenionales dating to the early period after the death of Constantine - 337-340 - by the 3 new Augusti:  Constantine II, Constans and Constantius II.  The coins in Theodora's honor were struck only at Trier, Rome and Constantinople and I believe the legend on the reverse - PIETAS ROMANA - was never used on the coins of any other member of the Imperial families, at least not in the"Æ" coinage.

    Mark

    Shewolf & Twins reverse which is typically found on the VRBS ROMA, City of Rome commemorative, reduced-module folles introduced around 330 AD

    Sent to Mark for confirmation of ID

    There's not all that much unusual about your VRBS ROMA city commemorative with the she-wolf and twins reverse, except that what's left of it has a nice, glossy patina.  It's from the mint at Trier: "TRP" in the exergue.  To tell whether this is part of the earlier or later runs of these, given the chipped edges, I'd need to have it in-hand (if I could tell at all) to try to see by the size and weight whether it's consistent with the module from the beginning of the series c. 330-333, from the middle of the series - 333-335 - or from the very end, c. 336-7 (by which time they had become considerably smaller).  Aside from that, there's nothing particularly unusual about it - it's part of the enormous combined emissions of billon Centenionales. (as the denomination is now being named by David Sear, whose conventions I tend to follow.) This huge combined issue began at the time of the dedication of Constantinople and ran until the death of Constantine in 337.  These were contemporaneous - in fact were part of the same overall series - as the very commonly encountered GLORIA EXERCITVS - soldiers flanking 1 or 2 standards types in the name of Constantine I and all the various Caesars, as well as the CONSTANTINOPOLIS city commemoratives.  

    Mark

    Stunning dated 1772 George III gold half guinea coin weight - should be 10s and 6 D for normal half guinea

    Obv 10S 5D - Ten shillings and 5 pence - Ewer counter mark both sides

    Ref Withers p 229 1998, O

    3.87g, 19.25gr, should weigh 18gr

    circa 15thC animal headed ewer spout
    18thC toy cannon

    1300-10 Edward hammered silver farthing 0.21g,10.81mm - Type 28h

    New issue circle both sides

    Obv + EDWARDVS REX ANG

    Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

    Amazing double head strike 1430-34 Henry VI hammered silver groat - Pine cone Mascle issue - Initial mark cross potonce

    Pinecone and mascle in reverse legend - satire stops - Ref North 1461

    Obv HENRIC DI GRA REX ANGL Z FRANCE DNS HYB

    Rev VIL/LA/ CALI/SIE - Calais Mint

    3.63g, 28.7mm

     

    Groat(4 pence)3.63g, 28.7mm and a farthing (1/4 penny) 0.21g,10.81mm size comparison

    1427- 1430 Henry VI hammered silver penny - mullets by crown- quatrefoil with pellet at centre of reverse cross - York mint - Archiepiscopal issue

    Obv HENRICVS REX ANGLIE

    Rev CIVI/TAS/EBO/RACI - York mint

    Post Medieval cast copper alloy single loop buckle frame.

    1500-1650 AD

    A complete cast copper alloy buckle of post-medieval date. The buckle is a double loop asymmetrical shape

    Circa 1575- 1700

    1587-9 Elizabeth 1st hammered silver half groat - Crescent mint mark

    1300-1310 Edward hammered silver penny - Class 10cf3

    Obv EDWARR ANGL DNS HYB

    Rev CIVIAS/CAN/TOR - Canterbury mint

    Very unusual 1272 Edward 1st hammered silver penny - reverse cross only completes on 3 segments - double strike - legend is a CIVI/TAS type but legend is blundered - not a sterling imitation

    Obv EDWAR ANGLE DNS HYB

    Rev - CIVI/TAS/ ??

    Taco'd 1461 - 85 Edward IV hammered silver penny - C on breast- Canterbury mint
    16th Elizabeth 1st hammered silver penny 1839 Victorian milled silver sixpence

    1604-19 James 1st gold Angel coin weight - 2nd coinage, revalued

    Obv Crown XI S

    Rev Angel

    1603 - 4 Irish James 1st hammered silver sixpence - Bell mint mark

    1344 Edward III hammered silver penny - Florin issue

    Obv EDWAR ANGLE DNS HYB

    Rev CIVI/TAS/DVN/OLME - Durham mint

    1526 - 1544 Henry VIII hammered silver sovereign

    penny - Star both sides, radiant star Obv only

    CD besides shield - Bishop Cuthbert Tunstall

     

    1604-19 James 1st gold Angel coin weight - 2nd coinage, revalued

    Obv Crown XI S

    Rev Angel

    1696 William III milled silver sixpence - love token
    1694 William III copper penny

    1272 Edward hammered silver penny -

    Obv EDWAR ANGL DNS HYB

    Rev CIVI/TAS/CAN/TOR - Canterbury mint

    1592-5 Elizabeth 1st hammered silver half groat -Tun mint mark

    1344 Edward III hammered silver penny - Florin type - Cross 1

    Obv EDWR ANGL DNS HYB

    Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

    1578- 9 Elizabeth 1st hammered silver penny - Greek cross mint mark

    1310-14 Edward hammered silver penny - Class 11b

    Obv EDWAR ANGL DNS HYB

    Rev CIVI/TAS/CAN/TOR - Canterbury mint

    1644 Charles 1st hammered silver half groat - Oxford mint mark - Billet 17thC hammered copper trade farthing

    April 1356 - June 1357 Edward III hammered silver half groat - Pre treaty series GA London

    Annulet below bust - Fleurs in cusps and over crown

    Obv EDWARDVS .REX.ANGLI FRANC

    Rev - +POSV/VI.DEV/.ADIVT/OREM

    Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

    16thC Elizabeth 1st hammered silver half groat 1634 Charles 1st hammered copper rose farthing
    15thC lead token 17thC Colchester hammered copper trade farthing
    1560-1 Elizabeth 1st hammered silver groat - Martlett mint mark 18thC silver clog fastener - maker probably Robert Makepeace I
    The Side, Newcastle
    Newcastle 1753 hallmark

    1481 -83 Edward IV hammered silver farthing

    Obv EDWARD DI GRA REX

    Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

    1344 Edward III hammered silver penny - Florin type

    Obv EDWAR ANGL DNS HYB

    Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

    1481 - 83 Edward IV hammered silver penny - Durham mint

    Rose in centre of reverse cross

    Obv EDWAR *****

    Rev CIVI/TAS/ ???

    Georgian pill box

    Post medieval cast copper alloy buckle frame

    Circa AD 1600 - 1699

    Cast copper alloy trapezoidal shoe or knee buckle with concave sides

    1660-1720

    Georgian key
    Medieval strap end

    Post Medieval cast copper alloy single loop buckle frame.

    1500-1650 AD

    16thC Tudor button 15thC thimble 18thC clog fastener
    Medieval annular buckle Medieval harness ring

    1300 - 1310 Edward Ist hammered silver penny - Type 10

    Obv EDWAR ANGL DNS HYB

    Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

    1803 George III milled gold third guinea

     

    2.83g, 17.27mm

    10-40 AD Cunobelin gold qtr stater - sent to CCI for recording

    1.33g, 12.82mm

    1247 Henry III hammered silver voided long cross half penny 1899 Victoria milled silver Florin (24 pence)
    1871 Victoria milled silver shilling (12 pence)

    1669 Manningtree - Carter Henry, surgeon (CHYRVRGEON) 'His halfpenny' hammered copper trade token

    Volume II - 1319a Barber/Surgeon

    1935 George V milled silver sixpence Early Post-Medieval (1500-1700) copper alloy belt mount in the form of an acorn, Royal Navy Lieutenant - 1748
    WWI Bedfordshire regiment lapel badge 1603 James 1st trade weight - Crown I cipher - London mint
    Victorian Royal Yacht club button French Infantry Button
    103rd Line Regiment
    Circa 1803-1814
    15thC casket key

    1351-61 Edward III hammered silver penny - Pre treaty period

    Obv EDWARDVS REX ***

    Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

    1 annulet in all 4 quadrants on rev

    1582 Elizabeth 1st hammered silver half groat
    1595-8 Elizabeth 1st hammered silver penny - Key mintmark 1696 William III milled silver sixpence

    Addedomarus 45BC Celtic gold full stater - sent to CCI for recording & reported as potential addition hoard to museum

    17.98mm, 5.57g

    154mm x 54mm

     

    Bronze Age Axe (c.1500-1400BC) cast copper alloy primary shield pattern palstave, dating to the Acton Park Phase.

    13thC vessica seal matrix

    Interesting impression of an open hand with two stars above reaching for a closed fist

    Legend - EDEVM * TIMET

    1569 Elizabeth 1st hammered silver 3 pence

    1586 Hans Krauwincel II Rose orb Jetton

    HANNS KRAVWINCKEL IN NVRENB

    Medieval book hinge and clasp

    1558- 60 Elizabeth hammered silver groat - First Issue Lis mintmark Great condition 1701 William III milled copper penny
    Great condition 1694 William III milled copper penny

    Druid's Head on Obverse of 1788 Anglesey Token Parys Mines

    Copper Tokens
    The copper tokens of Anglesey for the Anglesey Copper Company were among the first of the eighteenth century tokens to be issued. they were issued as pennies and halfpennies.
    Obverse
    The obverse shows a druid's head, surrounded by a wreath of oak leaves, without inscription:-
    IRONMONGER BISHOPSGATE
    LONDON


    Reverse
    The reverse shows a monogram or cypher P M Co for the Parys Mining Company, with the inscription:-
    WE PROMISE TO PAY THE BEARER ONE PENNY
    1788

    Interesting markings on rev of this rough Roman bronze - sent for ID WWII Hawker Hurricane lead toy aeroplane - camouflage paint still showing

    5th Dragoon guards button

    OR's - 1855-1922

    A complete cast copper alloy buckle of post-medieval date. The buckle is a double loop asymmetrical shape

    Circa 1575- 1700

    1675 Charles II milled copper farthing
    1696 William III milled silver shilling 1634 Charles 1st hammered copper rose farthing
    1910 Edward VII milled silver shilling 15thC lead token 18thC clog fastener
    16thC Tudor hooked fastener
    George Rex military badge

    Cast copper alloy buckle frame 1500 -1700

    Georgian gold fob chain decoration

    Addedomarus 45BC Celtic gold full stater - sent to CCI for recording & reported as potential addition hoard to museum

    18.68mm, 5.61g

    Early hammered silver coin - possibly IOAN Polish ? researching it

    2.86g, 20.72mm

    PORTUGAL. João IV, the Restorer, 1640-1656 AD. AR Half Tostão of 50 Reis of Lisbon, 1641. Five shields with fleurs in quadrants / Voided cross with numerals of date in quadrants

    1770 21 shilling coin weight - Gold guinea

    Obv S 21

    18thC toy cannon
    16thC Tudor seal spoon handle 1580 Elizabeth 1st hammered silver sixpence
    1603 James 1st hammered silver half groat (2 pence) 1877 Victoria milled silver shilling (12 pence)
    Medieval buckle handle mount
    15thC lead token - type 2 1855 - 1900 Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry - founded in 1794 17thC decorated pewter mount
    1816 George III milled silver shilling (12 pence) 1526-44 Rose and Crown coin weight - Antwerp hand
    1560- 1 Elizabeth 1st hammered silver groat - martlett mint mark - 2nd issue 16thC Tudor button

    1344 Edward hammered silver penny - Florin issue

    Obv EDWAR R ANGL DNS HYB

    Rev CIVI/TAS/CAN/TOR - Canterbury mint

    Large 18thC toy cannon
    Medieval annular buckle

    Cast copper alloy double-looped sub-annular shoe or knee buckle

    Circa 1650-1720

    Superb 1649 Commonwealth lead trade weight

    Obv Two commonwealth shields

    1247 Henry III hammered silver voided long cross halfpenny

    Rev ION/ENT - Bury St Edmunds mint - Alien moneyer

    Lot of nice early crotal bells turning up

    Cast copper alloy trapezoidal shoe or knee buckle with concave sides

    1660-1720

    Medieval pot handle

    1788 George III gold half guinea

    Medieval strap end

    Unknown type with *I* I on Obv instead of pellets

    1321 Edward II English jetton - Bust type Class XI

    Obv Edward bust with succession of * and I

    Rev Long cross with pellets

    Similar Ref Mitchiner 131 but with different legend

     

    1818 George III milled silver shilling
    19thC Russian lead bale seal Georgian dividers 15thC lead token
    Medieval templer lead mount
    Georgian watch winder Annular buckle 1250 to 1650 Edwardian enamelled brooch
    Medieval enamelled pendant Post medieval lead bale seal
    Victorian silver locket back

    1667 Thomas Bradshaw, apothecaries of Harwich Essex hammered copper trade farthing

    Ref Norweb 1285

    1586 Hans Krauwincel II Rose orb Jetton

    HANNS KRAVWINCKEL IN NVRENB

    Victorian trade weight RN Capt / Commander - 1787
    RN Lieutenant - 1787

    First shield shaped 12thC seal matrix I have seen found here - got to clean it up and do a wax impression yet

    A copper alloy matrix with shield-shaped face and six-sided handle terminating in a rhomboid suspension loop with circular perforation. Device of a heraldic lion rampant

    This shield-shaped matrix bears a heraldic lion rampant; does not imply that the owner used such a lion as his arms or, indeed, that he bore arms at all; many such matrices carry heraldic creatures.

    Date from: AD 1200
    Date to: AD 1400

    2ndC Roman fibular brooch 1696 William III milled silver sixpence

    1344 Edward hammered silver penny - Florin issue

    Obv EDW R ANGL DNS HYB

    Rev CIVI/TAS/ type

    1831 William IV milled silver sixpence

    1208/9 King John hammered silver short cross penny - Class 6c

    Obv HENRICVS REX

    Rev RAVF ON LVNDE

    1669 Peter Pelle, baymaker of Colchester Essex hammered scopper trade farthing

    Ref Norweb 1209a

    Superb Charles Rex mount - 1625-49 Charles 1st 1603 James 1st hammered silver half groat

    1208/9 King John hammered silver short cross half penny - Class 6

    Obv HENRICVS REX

    Rev ABEL.ON - Abel of London mint

    1422 -61 Henry VI hammered silver half penny

    Obv +HENRIC REX ANGLI

    Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

    1816 George III milled silver shilling Royal Artillery cap badge

    Huge c10thC Anglo Scandinavian trade weight with runic inscription - one for the museum

    The inscription on the weight seems to read YN[A?}HINAA:, which does not make much sense on a first reading. You could ask Prof. Norman Biggs

    Dr Martin Allen

    1844 Victoria milled silver shilling

    1464 Edward IV hammered silver half groat - Transitional Issue - quatrefoil by neck, spur under TOR on rev

    Obv EDWARD DI GRA REX ANGL Z FRA

    Rev CIVITAS/CAN/TOR - Canterbury mint

    (working on this coin to ID)

    What a great find our first ever tiny 1703 Anne milled silver penny and size comparision to half crown

     

    Monster sized 1820 George III milled silver half crown - (30 pence)

    Addedomarus 45BC Celtic gold full stater - sent to CCI for recording

    17.70mm, 5.56g

    Medieval long cross hammered silver penny 16th Elizabeth 1st hammered silver half groat
    18thC toy cannon 1877 Jersey Island Victoria copper penny in great shape

    Interesting group of rough 1stC Roman big Sestertius bronzes found in the corner of a new field by At Mike - could be a potential hoaird there ?? A couple have some detail so I will send them off to mark Lehman for an ID.

    What you have likely found is a "lost purse", or a very small buried hoard.  Sestertii were one of the real "workhorse" denominations in circulation during the years the Romans were most active in Britain.  You find a lot of denarii (relatively speaking) because that is the sort of denomination which would be likely to be squirrelled-away as savings - a "store of value" for the average man who probably never saw a piece of gold change hands in his life.  It was the sestertii, dupondii & asses which really got the day-to-day work done.  I'm not all that sure what exactly is in ciculation in GB these days, 1967 having been the last time I visited, but in the US, I'd compare the larger Æ coins to the $20, $10 & $5 bills - it's nearly impossible to draw comparisons between actual buying-power value, of course, since so many items in the "market basket" were vastly more or less expensive than today, but the 5, 10 & 20 make for the same levels of multiples - an as being half a dupondius and a quarter of a sestertius, and the sestertius, in turn, being a quarter of the denarius (so it doesn't quite hold up all the way through) but the denarius would be more on the order of a $100 bill - a day's pay for a soldier or tradesman.  Maybe you'd take one with you if you were buying something major, but for day to day transactions, it was the large Æ's changing hands - buying a meal, modest lodging for the night, a mug of wine, etc, those sorts of things would be likely to be paid-for and priced in the Æ range. 

    So this find of 8 sestertii together represented a little bit of wealth - a couple hundred dollars,say - but not a massive sum.  The group could have been lost as a purse by a normally solvent person and would have been missed, but would not, most likely, have been a total disaster.  Or perhaps a clumsy "cutpurse" might have stashed his most recent acquisition and never returned to find it, having been caught on a subsequent foray into the marketplace...

    We can make up scenarios for this sort of sum of money fairly easily, since it is a comprehensible sum in comprehensible units the cognate of which we probably have in our own wallets (or would have if not quite so much of our commerce were conducted with plastic).

    In my opinion, the 1st example looks as though it might be a youthful portrait of Commodus, son of Marcus Aurelius and his successor -
    This is a youthful portrait of Commodus:  http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album95/ML_01_Commodus_Minerva_sest
    He grew a beard later on, but he was only a teen as seen here.

    While it might also be a younger portrait of Hadrian - before he cultivated his beard -
    http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album92/13_Hadrian_Sest_Felicitas 
    (Unfortunately I don't have a higher-quality example  of portrait for Hadrian in Æ in this early, nearly beardless era)

     the hair on your piece appears to be treated in the very curly style seen in M. Aurelius' and Commodus' portraits - see below for a Caesar-era M. Aurelius sestertius -
    http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album94/M_Aurel_Caes_Virtvs_Sest1 but the profile doesn't seem to match

    Your 2nd piece is, well, a good bit less easy to try to match - there is a portrait there - there seems not to be any beard (which pretty much rules out Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and M. Aurelius as Augusti) the head doesn't have the "bowling-ball" aspect of Trajan's portraits.  I don't think it's one of the pre-adoptives (Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba or Vitellius - definitely not a Flavian) So I guess we have pretty much the same pool of possibilities to draw from.  A very early Hadrian or M. Aurelius - although both were almost never shown completely beardless - or a young Commodus.

    That's about the best I can do, given the small amount of info available - these pieces were likely minted sometime in the 2nd century.  The relatively stable fiscal  and political situation in the 2nd century also fits for a "working" purseful of sestertii.  They circulated long enough to often be worn almost smooth in this era, meaning there was never a good reason for them to be hoarded on any widespread basis.

    Mark

    Post Medieval cast copper alloy single loop buckle frame.

    1500-1650 AD

    Georgian watch winder Medieval long cross hammered silver penny - CIVI/TAS typpe

    Interesting unrecorded 1422 shield of France type Jetton not in Mitchener

    3 Lis in a shield with what appears to be snakes above and to sides of shield

    Obv + AVE MARIA + GRACIA

     

    1272 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

    Obv EDW *** ANGL DNS HYB

    Rev CIVITAS/CAN/TOR - Canterbury mint

    1696 William III milled silver sixpence

    1377-99 Richard II hammered silver half penny - Type 1b(ii)

    Obv RICARD'xREX'xANGL

    Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

    14.17mm, 0.52g

    1640's English Civil War lead gun powder measure and cap
    18thC toy cannon 1795 Royal artillery button 1890 General servcie army button

    1422 shield of France type Jetton

    3 Lis in a shield

       

    1247 Henry III hammered silver half penny- Class III

    Obv HENRICVS REX

    Rev NIC/OLE/ - Moneyer Nicole

    1247 Henry III hammered silver half penny

    Obv HENRICVS REX

    Rev DAV/ICO/ - Moneyer David of London mint

    4th/5thC Roman silver coin - sent for ID

    12.52mm,0.67g

    Facinating medieval find - Looks like Jetton used as a type of mount or brooch.

    Researching the books

    Georgian gold triple sided fob chain hanging decoration - 3 missing stones

    1501-1521
    Venetian Soldino hammered silver coin 0.26g,12.08mm

    Rev: LAVS TIBI SOLI (Thee Alone be Praised). Haloed figure of Christ holding a cross.

    Obv: LE LAV DVX S M V (Leonardo Lauredan, Doge. St Mark of Venice.) Doge kneeling before Saint Mark.

    1300-10 Edward 1st hammered silver penny - Class 10

    Obv + EDWAR ANGLE DNS HYB

    Rev VILL/SCIE/DMV/NDI- Bury St Edmunds mint

    1300-10 Edward 1st hammered silver farthing - New issue with inner circles both sides - Closed C Type 28

    Obv +EDWARDVS REX

    Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON

    1525 'Ship -orb' Jetton - fictitious inscription Beauty Georgian pipe tamper

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