Sept 2011 Finds page

1247 Henry III hammered silver voided long cross penny - Class Vb

Obv HENRICVS REX III

Rev HEN/RIO/NVL/NDE - Moneyer Henry of London

1.43g, 17.89mm

1247 Henry III hammered silver voided long cross penny - Class IIIa

Obv HENRICVS REX III

Rev NIC/OLE/ONL/VND - Moneyer Nicole of London

1.26g,17.63mm

13th C Edward 1st hammered silver farthing - new issue with inner circles both sides - Needs further 'cooking' to remove horn crust to ID the class and mint

Photo'd next to silver penny for size

0.47g,11.33mm

H.M. Customs
O/R's Button
In use 1820 - 1836 ?
button

One piece Navy button

HONI SOIT QUI MAN Y PENSE

PACKET

Honi soit qui mal y pense (Old French: shame upon him who thinks evil of it)

RN - Packet Service
( Mail & Supplies Delivery )

c.1800-1811
Firmin & Co

Royal Western Yacht club

In use 1845 - 1901

18thC medallion

Rev 18thC sailing ships

1204/5 King John hammered silver short cross penny Class 5

Obv HENRICVS REX

Rev ANDREVD.ON. CANTR- Moneyer Andreu of Canterbury mint

1212-42 Henry III hammered silver short cross penny - Class 7b

Obv HENRICVS REX

Rev RAVF.ON.LVD - Moneyer Ravlf of London mint

1351-1353 Edward III hammered silver half groat - Pre Treaty series

IM Cross, annulet stops, wedge shaped R, single punched S

Obv EDWARDVS.REX.ANGLI

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

London Scottish Volunteers army button

Founded in 1859

2ndC Roman silver coin - 'cooking it to remove crust'

Good to hear from you again - I guess it is that time of year, so I wish you good diggin' this season.

Your coin is definitely Antoninus Pius, 138-161 AD.  I believe the reverse is Victory standing left holding wreath in outstretched right hand and a long palm-branch in the left.  I believe the reverse legend is IMPERATOR II.  If it is Imperator II, a fairly common type, it dates to about 143 AD from the mint at Rome.

Mark 

1215 Henry III hammered silver short cross penny - Class 7b

Obv HENRICVS REX

REV ** TISNOR** Unknown moneyer

1377 Richard II hammered silver penny

Obv RICARDVS REX ANGLIE

Rev CIVI/TAS/EBO/RACI - York mint

1340 Edward III hammered silver penny - Class 15d

Rev EDWAR ANGL DNS HYB

Rev SCIE/DNV/NDI/VIL - Bury St Edmunds mint

1272 Edward 1st hammered silver penny Class 1d

Rev EDWR ANGL DNS HYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/CAN/TOR - Canterbury mint

1834 gold ring - London with duty paid bust Maker is probably James Young

1.43g, 19.55mm

Solid gold Georgian watch winder

As dug,almost 'cooked' and finally cooked

1stC Celtic silver unit - straight into the cooker to remove the horn crust

Cunobelin 20 AD Celtic silver coin

The Cunobelin silver is very nice, and a rare type at that. Seated figure facing left. The only standard reference for the type is no. 308 in Spink's Coins of England, it's not in Van Arsdell or the BM catalogue. You can see the amphora which the seated figure is holding quite clearly, but the CVNOBE doesn't show up too well on either. I don't have the exact figures here for rarity, but I don't think there are more than a dozen of these recorded at most. Date is perhaps somewhere in the middle of Cunobelin's reign, say perhaps c. 20-25 AD.

Thanks again for all these,
Best wishes
Philip

First decent Roman bronze with crisp detail sent to Mark for ID

The first thing that's clear - oddly enough - is the mintmark.  That's distinctive for the mint at Lugdunum and that exact type was used only during the year 332. This type, the 2-standard Gloria Exercitvs, was struck for only 3 people, Constantine I Augustus, Constantine II and Constantius II, Caesars.  The issue in telling you any more than that is in the ability to read any of the obverse legend.  It's "sort of" visible, but frustratingly unclear - the possibile obverse legeds are:
CONSTANTI - NVS MAX AVG
CONSTANTINVS IVN NOB C
FL IVL CONSTANTIVS NOB C

Since it appears there may be a break in the legend above the portrait's head, I will provisionally guess that it's Constantine I - "The Great".  But I can't be certain because the legend is frustratingly unclear.  So, I can give you the date and mint with complete certainty, but not the emperor.

Mark

1272 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Obv ***ANGL DNS**

Rev ISTO/LLIE/VILL/ - Bristol mint

1371-1379 Duchy of Guelders jetton

Rampant Lion with a tall erect two forked tail was first introduced as the emblem of Limburg

Rev Rampant Lion with a tall erect two forked tail of Limburg- all in 6 arched tressure -margin M repeated

Rev Double stranded arcuate cross fleuretty with rampant lion (single tail) in each angle:margins crowns

THE 20th REGIMENT OF FOOT East Devonshire Regiment

Officer - 1830-1855

Another typical example found here

"fourree" silver-over-copper denarii

Fascinating find Roman silver forgery coin showing exposed copper core which swelled and forced off one face of the coin. Shows clearly how the forgery was constructed

850 BC Bronze Age sword blade fragment

Royal Navy Lieutenant - 1748

1341 Edward III hammered silver penny

Obv **REX ANGL

Rev CIVI/TAS/EBO/RACI

Quatrefoil with pellet on rev cross - York Archiepiscopal issue

1327 Edward III hammered silver half groat

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

1422-61 Henry VI hammered silver halfpenny- annulet issue -Type A1a 'Bib' chest

Annulets in VIL and CAL qtrs

S.1849; N.1435

Obv +HENRICxREXxANGL'

Rev VIL LAx CAL ISx

Venetian Soldino issued by Doge Michele Steno (1400-1413).
Obv: MICHAEL STEN' DVX (Michele Steno, Doge). Doge standing left, holding standard.
Rev: S MARCVS VENETI (Saint Mark of Venice). Winged and nimbate lion of Saint Mark facing.

Doge standing left, holding banner, * / m in right field

1180 Henry II hammered silver short cross penny - Class 1

Obv HENRICVS REX

Rev ** CARD + O - Moneyer Ricard of Oxford mint

Mid 4thC Roman bronze coin sent for ID

Unfortunately, Murphy's law of Constantinian legends comes into play on this piece. 
Murphy says: "The more numerous the possible whoms or whats a legend might indicate, the more likely it will be that the crucial bit will be missing."

Although this is clearly a 2 soldiers and 1-standard GLORIA EXERCITVS, dating to 336-340 AD, and even the mintmark is clear enough for me to read without magnification - SMTS[A] - Thessalonica, what we have visible on the obverse is "CONSTAN.......VG" which means this could be any one of the 4 primary members of the family of Constantine the Great who were Augusti at some point.  Constantine I or II, Constantius II or Constans - all had legends as Augustus beginning CONSTAN and ending VG on their Thessalonica 1-standard issues.
These are the possibilities:

So there you have it, a datable, mint-specific but otherwise perfectly generic Constantinian Æ3.

Mark

C1351 Edward III hammered gold qtr noble - needs straightening to D exact type

1.79g

1341 Edward III hammered silver penny florin penny

Obv EDWAR ANGL DNS HYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/CAN/TOR - Canterbury mint

1205 William 1 The Lion Scottish hammered silver half penny

Obv LE REI WILAM - Wilam the King

Rev Voided cross with a star in each quadrant

Henry VI 1422-27 Hammered silver half groat - Calais mint - Annulet issue - annulets by neck and between two sets of opposing pellets

Obv HENRIC DI GRA REX ANGL Z FRANC

Outer legend POSVI DEVM ADIVTORE MEVM

Inner legend - VILLA CALISIE - Calais Mint

26.21mm, 3.72g

1199 King John hammered silver short cross penny Class 5b

Obv HENRICVS REX

Rev TOMAS ON EV** Moneyer Thomas of York mint

Need 'cooking' before sending for recording to Fitzwilliam museum

A Medieval (1250-1450) sheet copper alloy (0.50mm thick) domed sexfoil belt mount

Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL

Date from: AD 1250
Date to: AD 1450

A copper-alloy cast mount. The mount is quatrefoil in shape with a cusp in each angle

Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1600
Date to: Circa AD 1700

RN Capt / Commander - 1825
RN Lieutenant - 1825
RN Midshipman - 1825
In use 1825 - 1827

Heart attack find - 1955 Yugoslavia coin - looks just like gold in the hole !!

Images of youthful people and themes thought to represent the power of ordinary citizens. They also represent two pillars of Yugoslavian Communist society - agriculture and industry, farmers and workers, villages and cities.

BC Roman silver appearing after 6 months of 'cooking. Reverse is chariot type c 100 BC

Some detail showing through on this real crusty Roman silver

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