Addedomaros 45BC Celtic gold qtr stater - sent to CCI for recording

13.22mm, 1.33g

It's always good to see another one of these, the obverses of this particular type of Addedo quarter are a nightmare to die link because they're so similar so the more examples there are the better; I've recorded it as 13.0558.

Best Wishes

John

1363 -69 Edward III hammered gold 1/4 noble - Treaty series

Curule shaped X - Lis in centre of reverse

Obv EDWARDxDEIxGRAxREXxANGL

18.58mm,1.84g

1356 - 61 Edward III hammered silver penny - Cross 3 pre Treaty G

Obv +EDW***ANGL DNS HYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/ LON/DON - London mint

1356 - 61 Edward III hammered silver penny - pre Treaty C to G

Obv DWA*****

Rev CIVI/TAS/DVNE/LMIE - Durham mint

1272 Edward Ist hammered silver penny

Obv ***ANGL DNS HYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/CAN/TOR- Canterbury mint

Magnentius & Decentius - a fairly short-lived (350-353 AD) Augustus/Caesar pair

5 Roman bronze coins just found in small area from a previous disclaimed hoard. The write up below is from Mark Lehman on the previous hoard.

19thC

The 9th Regiment of Foot was an infantry line regiment of the British Army from 1751 to 1881. It became the Norfolk Regiment following the Army reforms of 1881.

Soldino of Antonio Venier (ANTO.VEN-ERIO.DVX.)

Type 2 c. 1466-74 – diameter circa 14mm
Doges – Tron, Marcello.

Obverse description: Doge kneeling left holding banner. Often mint control marks to right (a star/letters).
Obverse inscription: [Name of Doge] D.V.X.
Reverse description: Winged and nimbate lion of St Mark facing within a quadrilobe, holding book of gospels.

C10th C Saxon harness strap distributer

1272 Edward Ist hammered silver penny - Class 10

Obv +EDWRR ANGL DNS HYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/ LON/DON - London mint

Unlisted button - Crimea war's period

THE 5TH. (PRINCESS OF WALES'S) DRAGOON GUARDS

Probably one of the smallest hammered silver coins you can find, 1/3rd the weight of a Medieval silver farthing

1272 Edward 1st hammered silver penny - Class 11b - pointed E &C

Obv +EDWAR ANGL DNS HYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/CAN/TOR - Canterbury mint

1422- 61 Henry VI hasmmered silver half penny - Leaf -Pellet issue - pellets to each side of crown

Obv + hENRIC REX ANGLI

Rev CIVI/TAS/ LON/DON - London mint

1272 Edward 1st hammered silver penny - Egg wasted S, Class 3f to 8a

Obv +E ******S HYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/ - Type

Post Medieval cast copper alloy single loop buckle frame.

1500-1650 AD

1280-82 Edward 1st hammered silver half penny - thick wasted S -

Type 2

Obv +EDWR ANGL DNS HYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/ LON/DON - London mint

15.47mm,0.58g

1247 Henry III hammered silver voided long cross half penny

Obv hENRICVS REX

Rev ONL/VND - London mint

2ndC Contemporary Roman silver coin forgery - copper inner with thin sheets of silver covering - sent for ID

Since there's no legend at all and only part of the bust remains, we must go by "pattern recognition" here, but to my eye it appears to have been a Felicitas (I say this based on interpreting the object the personification on the reverse is holding as a caduceus) denarius of Hadrian (117-138) that was being copied here.  The workmanship is really quite good on the obverse so you can see how a whole example of this could be passed easily in any situation where coins were not being weighed or minutely examined on an individual basis.  A couple of these could be slipped into a bag of coins in some situation where coin was regularly handled in bulk and over time it could be a highly profitable, relatively low-risk operation.

Mark

Cast copper alloy trapezoidal shoe or knee buckle with concave sides

1660-1720

Georgian pipe tamper

Pipe tamper page

Royal Engineers

George Rex

55th Regiment of Foot

1800-1820

Cannot find this 17thC hammered coppper trade farthing in the ref books - London token

Portcullis on Rev

Obv *IN TOWER DITCH

Rev PHILL** IACOB - PIA

Stunning strike of a 1430 -1431 Henry VI hammered silver half goat with a very crisp legend- Perfect Rosette Mascle issue as seen clearly in the legends

IM Cross IIIb, mascule and rosettes stops - 9 arches to tressure, fleurs on cusps, none over crown

Obv + hENRIC' DI*GRA REX ANGL *Z F

Rev VIL/LA/CALI/SIE - Calais mint - mascule before LA - rosette after SIC

POSVI*/DEVMx/DIVTOR/ExMEVM

Stunning lead early medieval heraldic seal matrix - never seen a lead example - impression is still very crisp so if it is on the existing 'Dering Rolls' we should be able to ID the owner

Very unusual back on this large 2ndC Sestersius sized Roman coin - sent for ID

Despite the size, this is not a sestertius - it's a 1st century As of Vespasian.(c. 71 - the earlier Asses were far more substantial than the Asses of the 2nd century which is what you are more commonly find) The reverse (your photo was upside-down, you can usually correctly orient a large Æ by looking for the "S-C") is an altar - in this case, the Ara Providentiae Augusti - which is believed to have been in the "Campus Martius" (Field of Mars) area - the large, flat and open piece of flood plain land surrounded by a loop of the Tiber, to the north of the ancient city (and downtown in present day Rome).  This large open area in ancient times was used for drilling the army, political demonstrations, and other large public assemblies, like voting during the Republic or the elaborate funerals of the Imperial era.  This altar was dedicated to the "providence" of Augustus, although what exactly was being remembered and celebrated here that Augustus had provided-for was either abstract or is unclear to us today.

This reverse type was first used on a postumous commemorative As for the deified Augustus by Tiberius

http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album87/06_Augustus_by_Tiberius

It was a type which would see a lot of re-use.  This As by Vespasian (yours, that is), similar Asses by Vitellius, Titus and Domitian in their own names with their portraits, and restoration types copying the original DIVVS AVGVSTVS PATER/PROVIDENT As (photo above) produced by both Titus and Domitian, then later by Nerva.

This is an example of a similar type of As struck for himself (not a "restoration" type) by Domitian.
This is not the Providence Altar, however, but another similar altar dedicated to the deified Augustus. 

Domitian, 81-96 AD. Æ As 28mm, 12.38gm, axis: 6:00
Mint of Rome, 85 A.D.
Obv: IMP CAES DOMITIAN AVG GERM COS XII.
Laureate head right.
Rx: SALVTI AVGVSTI S - C.
Façade of the altar enclosure of the Ara Saluti Augusti.
RIC II 272, Cf. SR 2808.

 Nero also struck a very similar altar type for the Ara Pacis - the Altar of Peace.

http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album434/06_Nero_As

Altar types would become the main standard reverse type for the posthumous issues of the 3rd century - one of the most common coins of the time (270's) which was also extensively locally copied as a so-called "barbarous radiate", is a posthumous issue of Antoninianus for Claudius Gothicus with an altar reverse.

http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album106/ML_13_Claud_II_Consecratio_Altar1

Do I recall correctly you sending me an image of one of these later CONSECRATIO posthumous altar issues of Gothicus for identification within the last year or so?

Mark

Cast copper alloy buckle frame 1500 -1700

1377-1399 Richard II hammered silver half penny - Type 1 (d)

Obv + RICARDxREX xANGL

Rev CIVI/TAS/ LON/DON - London mint

2ndC Sestersius sized Roman coin - sent for ID

Thanks for the metrics and additional photos.  It seems I was looking at too early a time-frame.  You so seldom seem to find coins of the Severan era that I don't immediately think of it.  I can't be 100% certain, but I'm pretty sure that you have here an As of Severus Alexander, 222-235.  At less than 10gm, it's highly unlikely to be a Sestertius, even in its chipped condition.  There is an As of Sev. Alexander with Libertas standing, holding a pileus in right hand - the extended right arm could indicate this - and a transverse scepter.  The legend on the reverse is a continuation of his laundry-list of titles and would contain "COS" for consul in the correct place for the clear "O" we can see on the reverse.
This same type was issued in several consecutive years, and without being able to clearly read the TR P year or the number of the consulship on the reverse, we can't date it precisely, but it should date from about 330, give or take a couple of years.  This same type was also issued as a Sestertius, but as I said, I believe this piece is too small and too light to be a Sestertius.

Mark

1344 Edward III hammered silver half penny - Florin issue

Obv +EDWAR R ANGL DNS HYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/ LON/DON - London mint

1272 1st hammered silver half penny

Obv +EDWA***L DNS HYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/ LON/DON - London mint

1377-1399 Richard II hammered silver farthing- Type 1 (c)

Obv + RICARD:REX :ANGL

Rev CIVI/TAS/ LON/DON - London mint

1247 Henry III hammered silver voided long cross penny

Obv HENRICVS REX

Rev GIL/BER/TON/CAN - Moneyer Gilbert of Canterbury mint

1454-1460 Henry VI hammered silver penny - Cross -pellet (York)

Cross in quatrefoil at centre of reverse cross

Satire each side of neck

1344 Edward III hammered silver penny - Florin issue

Obv +EDWAR ANGL DNS HYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/CAN/TOR - Canterbury mint

Spanish silver cob ? researching it

"SPAIN. 1/2 Real, 1610-C. Segovia Mint. PCGS AU-50 Secure Holder. Philipp III

Military badge

Rifle regiment

Post-medieval copper-alloy buckle frame

C AD 1650-1720

Remarkable Roman fibular brooch that looks like it has never been in the ground ? Grave goods ?

2ndC Knee brooch - Semicircular headed types

Ref Hattatt 469

Very rare Exeter 1643 - 6 Charles 1st hammered silver shilling (12 pence)

CR by Oval shield

1242-1247 Henry III hammered silver short cross penny - Class 8b3

Letter X in REX is now in the form of cross pommee

Rev hENRICVS REX

Rev NIC(hOLE ON - Moneyer Nichole of Canterbury mint

1195 Scottish William 1 The Lion hammered silver half penny

Short cross and stars issue Class I

Moneyer RAUL ON ROCEBU (Raul of Roxburgh)

1668 G(iles) Taypsill of Colchester Essex hammered copper trade farthing

See Norweb 1228a

1361-9 Edward III hammered silver half penny - Type 17d Treaty series - annulet stops before and after REX - New crown with jewels between fleurs - Treaty 'X' - unbarred A's

Obv + EDWARDVS:REX o AN

Rev CIVI/TAS/ LON/DON - London mint

1272 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Rev CIVI/TAS/ LON/DON - London mint

1377-1399 Richard II hammered silver farthing- Type 1 (e)

Obv + RICARDxREX xANGL '

Rev CIVI/TAS/ LON/DON - London mint

1344 Edward III hammered silver penny - Florin issue

Obv +EDWAR ANGL DNS HYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/ LON/DON - London mint

13thC French jetton

Obv 3 fleurs de lis

DETOUR+DETOUR

Rev Double stranded arcuate cross feuilly with pellet at centre

PAI - DIEV -NOV NOIN

1871 Silver ring - Maker RF Exeter hall mark

RF into a rectangle
Richard Ferris

17thC silver seal matrix - reported to museum as treasure

Crown over Tudor rose

24.13mm H, 5.58g

1627 Charles 1st hammered silver sixpence - Negro's head mint mark

Group B 2nd bust - Tower mint under Charles 1st

1413 22 Henry V hammered silver half penny - broken annulets by hair - Type 5

Obv ** REX ANGL

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON

Simply stunning condition Roman coin - one of the best I have ever seen dug - sent for ID

This is a billon centenionalis of Constantine II as Caesar (he was only briefly Augustus from 337-340 - the shortest-lived of Constantine's 3 successor-sons).  From the mint at Aquilea, it dates to 320-321.  The reverse type is CAESARVM NOSTRORVM - "Our Caesars" - who, in addition to Constantine II, were Crispus and Licinius II - these last two would not finish out the decade. In fact, neither had more than 5 years left on Earth before meeting his separate and unfortunate end.  Both, coincidentally, killed on orders of Constantine I. Read about them sometime - particularly Crispus - no current "Adult Soap Opera" has anything to compare with the rise and demise of Crispus as well as his scheming step-mother Fausta.  Licinius Jr, on the other hand, was a politically incovenient loose-end to be "tied-up" in the normal Roman Imperial manner.
In the center of the wreath is VOT / V - This means that Constantine II was celebrating his first half-decennalia - this had to do with vows made to perform sacrifices and ceremonies as head of the offical state religion - interestingly, this pagan custom persisted long into the Christian era.  What this VOT V translates to would be something along the lines of: "Having performed the vows of five (years), Caesar undertakes the vows for the sacrifices and ceremonies of his 10th year (of rule)." This was done to a certain extent out of the superstitious belief that these promises of ceremonies would help ensure that the said 10th year would be reached and those ceremonies and sacrifices could then be celebrated.

The reference for this is RIC vol VII, (pg. 402), 74.  RIC considers all the Votas of this series from Aquilea "rare", and this one is rated R5 - or very rare.  Of course this frequency rating was based on a survey of pieces in public and important private collections in the mid 1960's.  Very many fewer of them had been dug up at that time, and there was not much interest in the Æ of this era among the entrenched heads of numismatic society - elderly Victorian gentlemen who considered these pieces beneath their notice and not worthy of their time.  This tended to make the collections of the time a bit light on this sort of material - a few representative pieces was all that was deemed necessary.  However, an R5 rating from a Western mint like Aquilea probably translates into a legitimate scarcity today. It's not one of the specific items of the type you are most likely to encounter. They were produced in great quantity and variety from 15 or 20 mints during this era so the general type is not rare at all, but this specific combination of obverse, reverse, mint, etc, is scarce, comparitively speaking.

Nice coin.

Mark