Sept 2005 Finds Page 1

17thC trade farthing

Latin inscription on lead

Possible Roman but lettering is more like 17thC- not investigated yet

Turns out to be the name of a plant LOL

1327 AD Edward III hammered silver half penny 7g

London mint Possible type 5

45 BC Addedomaros Celtic gold full stater

found by Ark Gary

'Well, this is a nice one, and as you say with those intriguing symbols above the horse visible. What they seem to be is three horse's muzzles - on some dies they are virtually identical to the muzzle actually on the horse. Curiously, at roughly the same time that Addedomaros was using this motif on his staters, so was Commios, down in Hampshire. In fact since Commios is generally dated a little earlier than Addedomaros, it's not impossible that the latter encountered one of Commios's staters and decided to copy this feature. It quite often appears blundered, which suggests that the die engravers didn't always know what they were looking at. I'll record this one as CCI 05.0603, and I look forward to more!

Edward 1st to 3rd - Medieval Longcross hammered silver penny

London mint - will ID after straightening

12th Lancers button

The 12th Dragoons were a British cavalry regiment raised in 1715 in Berkshire. They were later renamed the 12th Lancers. They fought at Waterloo and during the Great War were part of the 5th Cavalry Brigade.

1500's Elizabeth 1st hammered silver penny

mint mark blurred

Mark at the UCRF has ID'd this early Roman 65 AD Nero As

22.76mm - 4.2g

#That would be "ARA PACIS" The Altar of Peace. It's just a large, squarish object that corresponds pretty well to the blob on your coin. Positive ID for Nero. According to RIC, the years the type was minted were 65 & 66 A.D. and only at Lugdunum (modern Lyon). Some sub-types are considered "common" some less so, but I doubt we'll ever be able to read enough of the obverse inscription to say more than that it's the ARA PACIS type'.

Mark

4thC Valens - 364-378 A.D Roman bronze with the info supplied by Mark at the URF

'That is the emperor Valens - 364-378 A.D. Obverse inscription DN VALENS PF AVG diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right. The SECVRITAS REIPVBLICAE AE3's of him and his brother are very, very common. His brother Valentinian I who pre-deceased him in 375 due to not waiting four hours for brother Valens to arrive, hoping to claim the "glory" for his imagined "victory" at Hadrianople for himself, is one of the classic hubris stories of the later Empire. Valentinian and hiis legions were ridded down by the Gothic cavalry employing their new invention - the stirrip - and anihilated. One of the greatest disasters to befall the Empire at this time I can't make out the mintmark on the reverse - perhaps some cleaning would reveal sufficient tops of letters in the exergue to tell you what mint produced this piece.

The Victory reverse is interesting in that it appears at the time the iconography was shifting from the Classical deity Victory to the Christian angel symbology - but at this time is still to be interpreted as Victory advancing left carrying wreath and palm.'

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