1247 Henry III hammered silver voided long cross half penny

Rev /NIC/OLE - Moneyer Nicole

1461- 1483 Edward IV hammered silver penny - Rose in centre of reverse cross - Local Durham mint

Obv +ED *******

1272 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Obv + EDWAR ANGL DNS HYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON- London mint

Medieval silver engraved band - reported to museum as treasure

13thC medieval heraldic shield pendant

Lion facing left

1272 Edward 1st hammered silver penny- tall crown class 10

Obv + EDWAR ANGL DNS HYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/CAN/TOR- Canterbury mint

1650-1700 Cast copper alloy thumb rest from a drinking vessel or tankard

PAS record match BERK-641406

1377-1399 Richard II hammered silver half penny

Obv + RICARD REX x ANGL'

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON- London mint

1272 Edward 1st hammered silver penny- Class 10

Obv + EDWAR ANGL DNS HYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON- London mint

1689- 94 William and Mary type jetton

Kings' diademed bust right

Obv WILLH.IIID.G.ANG.SCO.FR.ET.HI.REX

Rev Queens head diademed bust right

Ref Mitchiner 1804

1422-61 Henry VI hammered silver half penny

Ob+hE ****** X ANGL

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

1432-61Henry VI hammered silver penny - mascle before L

Obv +hEN **** ANGLIE

Rev VIL/v L *** /STRI - Newcastle mint

1377-1399 Richard II hammered silver half penny

Obv + RICARD REX x ANGL

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON- London mint

1418- 1437 Charles VII Paschal lamb type jetton, Bourges

Paschal lamb standing with one foot raised head nimbate

Obv+ GETES star DIEV star FALIR

Simple single armed cross patty with lis bewtween each arm

Rev + AMIES star DIEV star ET star LO

Ref Mitchiner 558

1247 Henry III hammered silver voided long cross penny- Class 5

Obv hENRICVS REX III

Rev ANT/ALE/EIN/- Moneyer alein of Canterbury mint

1247 Henry III hammered silver voided long cross qtr penny

Rev /ERO/ - Moneyer Rener or Roger

1327 - 77 Edward III hammered silver farthing (1/4 penny)

Rev ***** REX ANGL

Rev CIVI/TAS/EBO/RACI - York mint

1272 Edward III hammered silver penny

Obv +EDWAR ANGL DNS HYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON- London mint

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

1.31g, 11.16mm

1247 Henry III hammered silver voided long cross half penny

Rev /hEN/RIO- Moneyer Henri

1279 Irish Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Trefoil of pellets on Kings breast

Obv EDWR ANGL DNS HYB

1272 Edward 1st hammered silver penny - Class 10

Obv +EDWAR R ANGL DNS HYB

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

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

Annulat on breast- Barred A is reverse die of Edward III

Obv + RICARD x REX x' ANGL

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON- London mint

1500-1650 AD

1461- 1483 Edward IV hammered silver penny - Quatrefoil with pellet at centre of reverse cross

Rev CIVI/TAS/EBO/RACI - York mint

Tiny late medieval gilded silver ring top - Madonna bust ??

Reported as treasure to museum

9.86mm dia , 1.24g

1199 John hammered silver short cross farthing - Class 4 to 5

Obv hENRICVS REX

Rev VE.O - Moneyer Heve of Canterbury mint

1247 Henry III hammered silver voided long cross half penny

Rev TOM/ Moneyer Thomas

1204 John hammered silver short cross penny - Class 5

Rev hENRICVS REX

Rev +WALTER.ON.LVN Moneyer Walter of London mint

1247 Henry III hammered silver voided long cross half penny

Rev NT/NIC/ Moneyer Nivole of Canterbury mint

Taco'd 1351 -61 Edward III hammered silver groat

Obv + EDWAR **** ANGL o Z FRANC hYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON- London mint

27.08mm

1272 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Obv +EDW** ANGL DNS HYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON- London mint

1327 Edward III hammered silver penny

Obv + EDWA *** hYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON- London mint

Very interesting Celtic gold qtr gold stater - sent to CCI for ID and recording

Reminds me of a 50BC North Thames type

1.54g, 13.51mm dia

Size comparsion between a qtr and a medeival half penny

Rare find - our first ever annulet mint mark I have seen on a coin found here

1471-2 Edward IV hammered silver half penny - im annulet - Type 2h

Obv EDWARD DI REX AN

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON- London mint

0.33g, 12.87mm

17th/18thC gold posy ring - reported as treasure to museum

'TRUE TO THEE ILE EVER BE'

19.25mm dia, 3.69g

Maker AW (Old English Script) No hall marks

16thC enamelled sectioned gilded silver top and solid gold decorated pendant- reported as treasure to museum

Is it a fancy eye wax scraper by the bowl shaped end ??

0.84g, 19.36mm L

1485 Henry VII hammered silver half penny- Brush hair - single arched crown

Obv hENRIC DI GRA REX

Rev CIVI/TAS/EBO/RACI - York mint

0.32g, 11.79

1471 Edward IV hammered silver half penny - im short cross fitchee

Obv + EDW *** REX

Rev Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON- London mint

0.47g,12.77

1509 -26 Henry VIII hammered silver sovereign penny - TD by shield Bishop Thomas Ruthall

Durham mint

0.7g,15.33

Thomas Ruthall (Ruthal, Rowthall) (died 4 February 1523) was an English churchman, administrator and diplomat. He was a leading councillor of Henry VIII of England

1377-1399 Richard II hammered silver half penny - type 1e

Obv +RICHARD x REX x ANGL'

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON- London mint

1204- 5 John hammered silver short cross penny - Class 5b - Egg wasted S

Obv hENRICVS R.EX

Rev .ON.EVE - York mint

Taco'd 1272 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Obv + ED ****

Rev CIVI/TAS/EBO/RACI - York mint

1285/6 Edward 1st hammered silver farthing - new issue inner circle both sides - Type 28 Oval flan

Rev CIVI/TAS/EBO/RACI - York mint

1247 Henry III hammered silver voided long cross half penny

Rev IC/OLE - Moneyer Nicole

1272 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Obv + EDWR ANGL DNS HYB

Rev VILL/ABR/ISTO/LLIE - Bristol mint

Rare English jetton, 1345/55 Late pictorial issues of the mid century : This type with the obverse as a rose is not in Mitchiner but could be a mule with Mitchiner 186

Obv Barbed rose 5 petals, border fictitious legend

Rev Long cross patonace , 6 pellet clusters in each angle, border pellets

Ref Mitchiner 245

1247 Henry III hammered silver voided long cross half penny- Class 5

Obv hENRICVS REX III

Rev /ANT/NIC/ Moneyer Nicole of - Canterbury mint

Gold face plates in triangular cross-section secured by a binding strip

Bronze Age Tress Ring C1000BC

Lock-Rings

Ornaments, whose function is unknown, made from gold plates in triangular cross-section and secured by a binding strip, resulting in a hollow ring. The face plates can be decorated with repoussé decoration or with fine concentric incised lines imitating fine wire works. More rarely, lock-rings are made from face plates obtained from individual gold wires soldered together.

References

• Eogan, G. 1969. 'Lock-rings' of the Late Bronze Age. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 67C, 93-148

Reported to museum as treasure

Complete with diamond shaped end knops

3.12g,27.07mm long

70BC Morini Celtic gold qtr stater - sent to CCI for recording and reported as hoard to museum

1.45g, 10.75mm

70BC Morini Celtic gold qtr stater - sent to CCI for recording and reported as hoard to museum

1.14g, 11.52mm

70BC Morini Celtic gold qtr stater - sent to CCI for recording and reported as hoard to museum

1.46g, 11.55mm

50 BC Trinovantes British G “Clacton” Celtic gold qtr stater - sent to CCI for recording and reported as hoard to museum

1.29g,14.45mm

First one I have ever seen - 1836 William IV milled silver one and a half pence

This coin was for colonial use

1272 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Obv + EDWR ANGL DNS HYB

Rev VILL/ABR/ISTO/LIE - Bristol mint

1351 Edward III hammered silver penny - Pre-Treaty London A , extra annulets in all 4 quadants

Obv + EDWAR DVS:REX: ANGLIE

Rev Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON- London mint

1641-3 Charles 1st hammered silver penny - mintmark 2 dots

1422-61 Henry VI hammered silver half penny - A.2., roundabout mint mark- annulets in opposing quadants on reverse, annulets to side of neck

Obv + hENRIC ** ANGL'

Rev VIL/LAx/CAL/IS - Calaise mint

1272 Edward Ist hammered silver penny - Class 10ab

Obv EDWARD R ANGL DNS HYB

2nd C Roman silver coin sent for provisional ID - cannot ' cook' this coin as it is part of new hoard I just reported

2.98g, 19.30mm

This is, I'm sure you're aware, sort of a nearly-impossible challenge.  However, one thing that "pops out at me" is that the bust appears not to be wearing any crown - no laurel, diadem or radiate is visible, neither are there any perceptable "wreath ties" hanging behind the head/neck.

Although the portrait - at least in this vague configuration - does not particularly resemble him, what first comes to mind is Constantius Gallus.  He was a short-lived cousin of the sons of Constantine who, never advancing beyond Caesar before he pissed-off Constantius II sufficiently to relieve him of his head altogether, was only ever portrayed bare-headed - as was the custom for Caesars after the death of Constantine I.

Here's an example of a Constantius Gallus majorina with unbroken legend:

http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album167/39_Gallus_FTR_CYZ_1 

A lot of his coinage shows him with a legend broken by his head, but as you can see, the legend is continuous around his head in the example above - this was also a post-Constantinian tradition for new Ceasars or Augusti - the minor or associate was shown with a smaller portrait head accomodating an encircling legend.  When he had achieved a certain seniority, his portait was enlarged and the legend broken to accomodate it:

Later in his short reign, he was portrayed thusly:

http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album167/41_Gallus_FTR_ALE

 Other folks who were portrayed bare-headed who might be likely to show up in your digs are the brothers Magnentius & Decentius - it was they whose coins formed the bulk of one of the earlier hoards you dealt with - a couple years ago.  They tended to be portayed with serious "helmet-hair" as part of a mullet - a very silly-looking hairdo, IOW.  Julian II was Caesar for a relatively long time before his relatively brief time as Augustus - his coins as Caesar also portray him bare-headed.

http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album167/50_Julian_FTR_ARL

Of course, if my initial impression of a bare-headed portrait turns out to be mistaken, all of the preceeding becomes relatively meaningless.

Mark

1215 Henry III hammered silver short cross half penny

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

Obv Crown over Vs VI D (5 shillings and 6 pence)

Rev Angel

1217/8 Henry III hammered silver short cross penny - Class 7

Obv hENRICVS REX

Rev +ILGER ON LVNDE - Moneyer Ilger of London mint

1247 Henry III hammered silver voided long cross penny - Class 5b

Obv hENRICVS REX III

Rev NIC/OLE/ONC/ANT/ Moneyer of Canterbury mint

2 - 4thC Roman bronze coin sent for ID - reported as hoard to museum

The other, the GLORIA EXERCITVS, could be from any of the members of the family of Constantine, c. 330-336.

Mark

4thC Roman bronze coin sent for ID - reported as hoard to museum

Yes, you're correct that this is a GLORIA EXERCITVS Centenionalis.  It has two standards between the soldiers, so it dates to the earlier period of emissions for the GLORIA EX's - 330-335 or thereabouts.  I can't give you a firm ID on the obverse, but it is one of the CONstantine crew.  "...ONS..." is quite clearly legible at 9:00.

If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say the portrait favors the paterfamilias - Constantine I, "The Great" - although by this time the portraiture was already deteriorating to an extent that you really can't be absolutely certain whose portrait was intended merely by looking at portraits.

Mark

2ndC Roman bronze coin sent for ID - reported as hoard to museum

6.44g, 25mm

This one appears to be a GENIO POPVLI ROMANI follis of Constantius I as Caesar.  A member of the original Tetrarchy, he lived only a very short time - 13 months or so - after his elevation to Augustus at the abdication of Diocletian and Maximian.  He was the father of Constantine the Great - and died at York.

This dates to 293-305 AD - at the size and weight, despite being obviously chipped to a fairly serious extent, probably can be further dated to the later part of that period as the follis was shrinking from its original "half-crown" size as introduced by Diocletian in the late 280's.

2ndC Roman bronze coin sent for ID - reported as hoard to museum

6.73g,27mm

I will take it as a complement that you might think I could tell you anything from a photo of this grot - I will take a wild leap, however, and say that the "severe" looking profile of the portrait puts me in mind of Claudius Gothicus.  If that's a radiate crown he's wearing, it would be a further endorsement as you are highly unlikely to find a coin of Gothicus on which he is not shown radiate.

Hmmm - I should have looked at your metrics first.  It's way too big to be a Gothicus antoninianus.  This, I'd guess, is a fragment of a follis somewhat like the Constantius I, Caesar I already ID'd for you.  As a middling-sized follis, it could be any one of 7-10 possible imperials.

It's unfortunate that no details are visible on the reverse - that would be a major help in narrowing-down the field of "contestants" or dating it more closely - as it is, we can call it approximately 295-315 AD.

Mark 

Huge chunk of 1826 silver and bits - London hall mark, date letter I

Silver hinged hip flask cap ?

9 - 2nd to 4thC C Roman bronze coin - illegible - reported as hoard to museum

2ndC Roman bronze coin - sent for ID and reported as hoard to museum

23mm,5.53g

the large one seems at its size and weight most likely to be an As of Antoninus Pius (only the portrait is usable here, so it is somewhat of a guess, but it does tend to look more like Ant Pius than any of the other typical suspects. His reign was 138-161.

The other, the GLORIA EXERCITVS, could be from any of the members of the family of Constantine, c. 330-336.

Mark

55th Regiment of Foot

Officer - 1800-1820

Georgian silver name tag

35 Ely Place

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

Circa 1575- 1700

1792 Norfolk Norwich Halfpenny Condor Token

OBVERSE: The arms of Norwich; castle and lion.

REVERSE: A plough and shuttle. SUCCESS TO THE PLOUGH AND SHUTTLE. EDGE: Plain.

1250- 1400 buckle

2ndC Roman silver coin sent for ID - cooking to remove crust (GaB)

I guess I didn't get back to you on this one - I can't be 100% certain since the obverse legend is all but illegible and the back of the head could be any one of half a dozen young late 2nd-early 3rd century Imperials, but I believe this is a youthful portrait of Caracalla - probably when he was still Caesar under his father, Septimius Severus (195-198).  The reverse type is plausible for Caracalla Caesar - PIETAS Piety standing left sacrificing over small altar and holding box of incense.

If the obverse leged becomes clearer with cleaning, I suspect it will be "M AVR ANTON CAES PONTIF" - the single really clear letter of the obverse legend - the "O" - is in the correct place for this to be the legend. 

Mark

Huge AD1 to AD 200 Roman concave bronze bucket handle mount

74mm high

Saxon hammered silver penny - sent to Fitzwilliam museum for recording and ID

This is 975 - 978 AD Edgar, Edward the Martyr or Æthelred II First Small Cross. I have recorded it as EMC 2014.0097.

Thanks,

Martin

1422 -61 Henry VI hammered silver half penny - Pinecone - mascle issue

Obv hENRICVS REX (mascule) ANGL

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON- London mint

1272 Edward Ist hammered silver penny - Class 10ab

Obv EDWARD R ANGL DNS HYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON- London mint

1247 Henry III hammered silver voided longcross halfpenny

Obv VND/NIC - Moneyer Nicole - of London mint

4thC Roman bronze coin sent for ID

You had the photo of the reverse upside-down - it's a galley with mast & ropes.  This is a so-called "Radiate Quinarius". It is supposed to have been a "half antoninianus" of Allectus, the short-lived successor to Carausius as emperor of the British Empire.  Carausius did a fairly good job of keeping up appearances after deciding that making himself the local emperor had a better future than admitting to the emperor in Rome that he did a better job as a pirate than he did clearing the seas of pirates.  He evidently was a pretty clever fellow and managed to do a pretty good job from 287-293 of running the Islands in the absence of an actual Imperial administrative presence - he actually went so far as to strike an unprecendented type of antoninianus with 3 collated busts - Diocletian, Maximian and himself - in an attempt to legitimize his rule further. His "prime minister" Allectus had him murdered in a court intrigue, then took over in his stead, but was nowhere near so good of a military leader or as cunning.  When Constantius I was dispatched to deal with the rebellion in 296, he made short work of Allectus.  The well-known "Lord Selborn" or Blackmoor hoard of coins (some 10's of thousands of pieces - one of the largest ever found) is presumed to be Allectus' war chest, buried for safekeeping before the final battle from which, evidently, no one who knew of the treasure emerged alive or able to claim it.  This hoard is extremely important in terms of recording the official-issue coins vis-a-vis the so-called "barbarous" contemporary copies, et, of the era.

You have a very clear "Q C" mintmark for the mint at Clausentum, Camelodunum or as you know it, Colchester.

2ndC Roman bronze coin sent for ID

this is a Dupondius.  You can tell by the points of the radiate crown on the portrait. There obviously is very little else to see on this piece so the ID must be based on pattern-recognition and guesswork.  I am pretty positive that this is Antoninus Pius - 138-161 AD. 
The reverse doesn't show any details I can make out in the photo, so there's very lettle else I can tell you about it.

I don't have a really attractive Antoninus Pius Dupondius to show you, but this one isn't too bad...

http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album93/18_A_Pius_Dup_Providentia

This one from ACE's prize stock is a little better and shows the points of the radiate crown a little more clearly - the 2nd century was a period of relative calm and long-reigning emperors.  Workhorse denominations like sestertii and dupondii remained in circulation for a long time and are more often than not encountered in well-worn conditions:

I don't know if this URL will work for you, this is in a password-protected section of my website
http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album150/MKRI_057_A_Pius_Dynastic_Dupondius

Mark

1300 -1310 Edward Ist hammered silver farthing - new issue inner circles both sides - type 28d

Obv EDWARDVS REX A

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON- London mint

0.16g,10.52mm

1247 Henry III hammered silver voided longcross farthing

Rev /hEN - Possibly moneyer is Henri

1247 Henry III hammered silver voided longcross farthing

Rev /ONL/VND/ - London mint

1422-61 Henry VI hammered silver half penny - annulet issue - annulets in VIL and CAL qtrs

Obv + hENRIC REX xANGL

Rev VIL/LA/CAL/IS - Calais mint

0.33g,14.17

1300 -1310 Edward Ist hammered silver farthing - new issue inner circles both sides - type 28

Obv EDWARDVS REX A

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON- London mint

0.31g,11.72mm

Facinating find - 1600 mm long and the figurine is exposing himself !! No clue what it is

Museum ID'd it as a toasting fork handle

70BC Morni Celtic gold qtr stater reported to museum as haord

1.45g, 10.38mm

1205 Willam 1 The Lion - Scottish hammered silver penny

Obv WILAM

Rev HUE WALTER

Moneyer Walter of Perth, Edinburgh and Roxburgh mints

Post Medieval cast copper alloy single loop buckle frame with plate

1500-1650 AD

1471-1483 Edward IV hammered silver penny - XIII - XVa Durham mint

D at centre of reverse cross- B & trefoil to side of neck

1422 Henry VI hammered silver groat - this coin has a mark between a mascule and leaf mark before LON. It has a pellet at centre. There are double satire stops but no pine cone or rosette to match the normal issue. This coin is not in North, die sink error ?

Obv + hENRIC DI GRA REX ANGL Z FRANC

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON- London mint ( Mascle ? and satire stops)

Roman silver coin sent for previsional ID - needs a cook to remove crust

I'm afraid I can't narrow this one down very much at this time - there are just too many profiles which might possibly match up with this fairly generic and soft-focus, bearded portrait.  The obverse legend is no help in its current state.  The reverse is too generic to call it for any one ruler with whom it's associated.
I think it could be just about any of the rulers from the 2nd half of the 2nd century - Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Verus, Commodus, Albinus, Septimius Severus - it's even vaguely possible that it might be one of the really rare folks from the interregnum, Pertinax, Didius Julianus, Pescennius Niger, etc. 
So about as close as I feel comfortable calling it at the moment would be to say: "ca. 150-200 AD" - it's probably in there somewhere.  Let me see new photos when it starts to drop some of the encrustation - all it should take is a clear view of a few of the right letters in the obverse legend to pin it down.

Mark

3rdC Roman silver forgery sent for ID

Can you see a visible area of exposed copper core on this piece in-hand?  I can't see any obvious core-exposure in your photos and I don't really see this piece being a contemporary copy or ancient counterfeit at all.  It appears to be a fairly good-quality silver Antoninianus of one of the last group of pre-Gallienus emperors. Philip I, Trajan Decius, Trebonianus Gallus, Volusian, Hostilian, Aemilian, etc.

There is too little obverse legend and the portrait is a bit too generic - radiate bearded man right - and nothing about the reverse which would allow us to say "Oh, that's a reverse type used by so-and-so" It's another standard, generic standing female personification holding a cornucopiae and could be on anyone's coins.  it's unlikely that we will be able to make a really positive ID here.

Mark

Anonymous: letter I early 15thC. An initial with crown above, branches at the side, was a design that became incrreasingly common in the 15thC and was often used on a signet ring . The letter suggests it stood for the owners forename. This example was used in 1424 by Edward Saddler, clerk

1327 Edward III hammered silver penny

Obv EDWARDVS ********

Rev /LON/DON - London mint

1327 Edward III hammered silver penny

Obv EDWARDVS R*******

Rev /LON/D** - London mint

17thC William Ambrose hammered copper trade farthing

Norweb i 549

1770 Gold 1/4 guinea coin weight - 5 shillings and 3 pence

Ob SD 5 3

Middle Bronze age 850 BC socketed bronze axe head

1327 Edward III hammered silver penny

Obv EDWR ANGL DNS HYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/CAN/TOR - Casnterbury mint

1247 Henry III hammered silver voided longcross half penny

Rev /ONC/ANT - Canterbury mint

1327 Edward III hammered silver penny

Obv EDWR ANGL DNS HYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/CAN/TOR - Casnterbury mint

Saxon silver penny sent to Fitzwilliam for recording and ID - reported as hoard to museum

This is 1016 AD Cnut Short Cross type, London, uncertain moneyer, EMC 2014.0102.

Thanks,

Martin

1st BC to 1stC AD Celtic cosmetic woad grinder - 64mm L

A boat shaped base element of a wood/cosmetic grinding set- end suspension loop

These objects are essentially Celtic in form. During the Celtic period in Britain, a biennial herb "Isatis Tinctoria" was cultivated for the blue dye that could be obtained from it by crushing. The plant is more commonly known as woad. The ancient Britons painted their bodies with the dye which was obtained by grinding parts of the plant between a pestle (missing here) and the mortar.

This coin has a totally new die type from any in Wren ref book, it could be a double strike as the R is at 6 o'clock on Obv

1247 Henry III hammered silver voided longcross half penny

Obv hENRICVS REX

Rev NIC/OLE /ONC/ANT - Moneyer Nicole of Canterbury mint

Late Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) damaged and incomplete cast copper alloy stirrup strap mount of Williams Class A type 10B.

1327 Edward III hammered silver penny

Obv EDWR ANGL DNS HYB

Rev VILL/BRI/STO/LIE - Bristol mint

Middle Bronze age 850 BC socketed bronze axe head

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

Circa 1575- 1700

19thC button with Italian or Latin inscription

+ SIRPNEY

O/R's - 1782-1810 (right)

17thC lead token

Royal Artillery buttons

Left 18thC - Right - 1840 - 1855

1247 Henry III hammered silver voided long cross farthing

Rev /OLE/ - Moneyer Nicole

1272 Edward III hammered silver penny - Known reverse legend error with AA Class 10cf

Obv EDWAR A ANGL DNS HYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON- London mint

1272 Edward III hammered silver penny - Clas 9b

Obv EDWAR ANGL DNS HYB

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

70BC Morini Celtic gold 'boat tree' qtr stater - reported to museum as hoard

1.49g, 9.97mm (E)

70BC Morini Celtic gold 'boat tree' qtr stater - reported to museum as hoard

1.46g, 11.06mm (J)

1604-19 James 1st gold Double crown coin weight - 2nd coinage revalued

Obv Crown XI s

1215 Henry III hammered silver short cross penny Class 7

Obv HENRICVS REX

1485-1509 Henry VII hammered silver half groat - Episcopal issue - King and Bishop jointly, Initial mark Tun, arched crown, plain reverse cross. Ornamental terminal

Obv + hENRIC DI GRA REX ANGLIE

Rev CIVI/TAS/CAN/TOR - Canterbury mint

Taco'd 1586 Hans Krauwincel II Rose orb Jeton

Cantii.

The Cantiaci or Cantii were a Celtic people living in Britain before the Roman conquest, and gave their name to a civitas of Roman Britain. They lived in the area now called Kent, in south-eastern England. Their capital was Durovernum Cantiacorum, now Canterbury.

50 BC Uninscribed 'P' gold - 'Trophy' Type - 1/4 Celtic gold coin - 1.38g, 11.99mm

Beaded trophy quarter, ABC 2243, BMC 435, not in VA.  Extremely rare, 10 others known.  An interesting Essex type because of its Kentish associations (derived from the Kentish trophy issue but a separate type), it may have been struck by an otherwise unknown offshoot of the Cantii.

1891 Gold locket - Chester hall mark, maker JS - Possibly John Sutter of Liverpool

2.52g

Very rare 10 -40 AD Cunobelinus Celtic silver unit - Leaping griffin type

Laureate bust r.CVNOBEL in front IINVS behind./ Griffin springing I, CAMV on ex.line.

Ref ABC 2909

Classed as excessively rare

'cooking' to remove crust

Post medieval cast copper alloy asymmetrical buckle frame, some with with a pointed knop at the end of the loop

The buckle dates from c.1575 - 1700

1586 Hans Krauwincel II Rose orb Jeton

1272 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Rev /CAN/TOR - Canterbury mint

1427-1430 Henry VI hammered silver penny - Rosette - Mascle issue - Satire stops

Obv hENRICVS REX ANGLIE

Rev VIL/LA/CALI/SIE - Calais mint

1666 'His half penny' hammered copper trade half penny

Polock 'Thisellworth'

Stunning 16thC Tudor gilded silver ring - reported as treasure to museum

23.18mm, 8.25g

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

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

Post Medieval cast copper alloy single loop buckle frame.

1500-1650 AD

Post medieval cast copper alloy buckle frame

Circa AD 1600 - 1699

Continental hammered silver coin - ID'd by Ohio Drew below

Obv *** OYIES hOMIAIM +

Rev ETA/NOR/DC *****

Silver penny of Floris V, Count of Holland (1256-1296), minted in Dordrecht c.1285-1296, modelled on the pennies of the British Isles with the profile bust on the reverse remodelled on those of Scotland and the long cross on the reverse on those of England.

Grierson (1991) illustrates a very similar example of a later style of penny with a more refined bust of Floris V, minted in Dordrecht, dating from c.1285-96, on page 121, Fig.276.

1247 Henry III hammered silver half penny

Rev NIC/OLE - Moneyer Nicole

1327 Edward III hammered silver penny - Florin type

Obv +EDWAR R ANGL DNS HYB

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

1247 Henry III hammered silver farthing

Rev NIC/ - Moneyer Nicole

1351-61 Edward III hammered silver farthing

Obv +EDWARDVS REX

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON- London mint

1272 Edward 1st hammered silver penny - Florin type

Obv +ED***ANG ***HYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON- London mint

Very neat Georgian triple sided seal matrix

'FORGET ME NOT'

16th Regiment of foot

O/R's - 1855-1881

Construction looks late medieval c 1500 AD- gold ring top with green stone - reported as treasure to museum

0.26g

circa 1st to 6th C - Most unusual fibular brooch I have seen dug - no classification in Hattatt's ref books.

Front panels would have been enamelled. One for the museum experts

Post Medieval cast copper alloy single loop buckle frame.

1500-1650 AD

1247 Henry III hammered silver half penny

Rev DEN/DAV - Moneyer David of London mint

1272 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Obv +EDWAR ANGL DNS HYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON- London mint

1272 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Obv +EDWAR ANGL DNS HYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/CAN/TOR- Canterbury mint

1247 Henry III hammered silver half penny

Moneyer Walter of Lincoln mint

1327 Edward III hammered silver penny - quatrefoil with pellet at centre of reverse cross

Obv + EDW *****

Rev CIVI/TAS/EBO/RACI - York mint

Stunning 11,000 BC Stone Age flint axe head

1300 mm L x 50mm wide

Complete WWII Commando dagger - what a neat find - 2600 mm L

Scarce Wilkinson Sword Company First Pattern Fairbairn-Sykes Commando Dagger

Fitted with the early style "wavy" brass cross guard and a knurled brass hilt

Post Medieval cast copper alloy single loop buckle frame.

1500-1650 AD

The Standing King series

Charles IV 1322-28 French Jetton

Obv 'king with sceptre standing beneath a gothic canopy'

4thC Roman bronze coin sent for ID

This is a perfect example of how, with just the right bits, one only needs a couple tiny bits of surviving legend, etc, to do a full ID - as long as you also know what you're looking for.

This is a restored centenionalis of Valens, 364-378, from Arles.  The type is GLORIA ROMANORVM with the emperor walking right, dragging a captive and holding a labarum, one of the most common types of the later 4th century. Although this type was struck at selected mints by no less than 6 different emperors, we can tell that this particular piece names Valens by the lone "S" visible at 1:00-2:00 on the obverse - only his legend (of the emperors who struck at this mint) would leave the terminal "S" in the emperor's name standing more-or-less alone in that position.

We can tell the reverse type, despite the paucity of legible legend and large missing chip, because we have a decent silhouette of the subject figures on the reverse.  The small amount of semi-legible legend appears to begin "GLORI" between 7:00 & 10:00 on the reverse and reinforces the type-ID.

Where we really luck out is the clear mint mark - PCON - for the mint at Arles which was going by the name of Constantina at that time. (Of course, many a beginner has mistaken the Arles mint marks from this period for Constantinople.) Due to the reign of the usurper Magnus Maximus and his control of the mint at Arles during the period in which the "extra" rulers were striking this type in central Europe, only the earliest 3 emperors associated with this type (Valentinian I, Valens & Gratian) struck it in significant numbers at Arles. There was a very brief period during which it was struck for Valentinian II, but those pieces are rare and his legend, like his father's, winds up with its terminal "S" around 3:00 or off the tip of the portrait's nose rather than by the forehead.  

So we have Valens, GLORIA ROMANORVM, from the mint of Arles - and furthermore, due to the apparent lack of any additional fieldmarks on the reverse, and the fact that the captive is shown kneeling we can date it to the beginning of the 3rd period at this mint. So we can even date it as closely as 375-378.  RIC IX, Arles, # 18a.\

Mark

Irish 1279-1301 Edward 1st hammered silver penny - Trefoil of pellets on Kings breast, pellet at start of Obv legend

Obv EDWR ANGL DNS HYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/DUBL/INIE - Dublin mint

Taco'd 1272 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Obv +EDWR ANGL DNS HYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/***

1377 - 99 Richard II hammered silver half penny

Obv +RICAR* .REX.ANGL

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON London mint

1377- 1399 Richard II hammered silver penny - quatrefoil with pellet at centre of reverse cross

Obv +RICARDVS.REX ***

Rev CIVI/TAS/EBO/RACI - York mint

1272 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Obv +EDW**** HYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/***

4thC Roman bronze coin sent for ID

Although I can't give you quite the depth of detail - chapter and verse - on this one as I was able to cite for the Valens, it is another case of the legend break on the obverse making all the difference in the ID.

This is a billon half-majorina with the FEL TEMP REPARATIO reverse legend.  This is one of the scarcer types which doesn't pair the otherwise ubiquitous fallen horseman with this legend.  Instead, it has a radiate phoenix standing left on either a globe or a small pyramidal mound - this one is the mound type, of course.

These were struck only for a limited time right at the beginning of the FEL TEMP series of types.  Because it was a half-denomination and the majorina, the denomination of which it was a half, declined in size so quickly, it became indistinguishable by size early-on. The result was that these were only struck between 348-350.  They were only struck for Constans and Constantius II, and given the break in the legend - beween the "A" and the "N", it must be Constans. (337-350). There is no surviving part of the mint mark visible, so that's about all I can tell you on this one.

Mark

1216 Henry III hammered silver short cross penny - Class 7b

Obv hENRICVS REX

Rev +WILLEM TA ON CANT - Moneyer Willem TA of Canterbury mint

1216 Henry III hammered silver short cross penny - Class 8b2

Obv hENRICVS REX

Rev + NIChOLE ON CANT Moneyer Nicole of Canterbury mint

1327 Edward III hammered silver penny

Obv EDWA *** ANG

Rev /EBO - York mint

Stunningly crisp 13thC lead vessica seal matrix

S'ALICIE ALDWINE

Seal of Alicie Aldwine

Double skinned Victorian gold ring - Chester hall mark 18 carat - Date letter 'F' 1889

Inscription - 'Alie July 5 1894'

1272 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Obv +EDWAR ANGL DNS HYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/CAN/TOR- Canterbury mint

Post Medieval cast copper alloy single loop buckle frame.

1500-1650 AD

1216 Henry III hammered silver half penny

Obv hENRICVS REX

Rev VF.ON.LV - Moneyer Ravf of London mint

1216 Henry III hammered silver half penny

Obv hENRICVS REX

Rev + ELI - Moneyer Elis of London mint

Charles 1st/ 2nd Jetton ?

Obv Crown C

18thC silver clog fastener - Maker CH

Charles Hougham London

1180-1189 Henry II hammered silver short cross penny - Class 1b to 1c

Rev hENRICVS REX

Obv + DAVI. O *** - ND Moneyer Davi of London

1216 Henry III hammered silver short cross penny - Class 6c1

Rev hENRICVS REX

Obv + WALTER ON LV - Moneyer Walter of London

1812 The Emperor Alexander medallion

Alexander I of Russia

Nice condition larger than average 4thC Roman 22.04mm dia, 3.91g

1770's 4 shillings and 6 pence coin weight

Obv S4 6D

1247 Henry III hammered silver voided long cross - Class IIIc

Obv hENRICVS REX III

Rev RIC/AR/DON/LDV -Moneyer Richard of London mint

1247 Henry III hammered silver voided long cross - Class Va

Obv hENRICVS REX III

Obv ON/CAN/TGIL/BER - Moneyer Gilbert of Canterbury mint

Late Saxon stirrup strap mount Class A Type 11a

Sub tringular mount depicts a Lion looking upwards with its front paw raised and tail curled between its legs and over the back found

1247 Henry III hammered silver voided long cross farthing

Rev /LEM/ Moneyer Willem

'Cooked' silver Roman - sent to Mark Lehman for ID

This one participates in that good luck, to a certain extent at least - we have just enough of the "right stuff" on the remaining fragment of this piece to ID and attribute it quite precisely. It is almost half of a denarius of Vespasian (69-79 AD.)  The complete obverse legend should be: "IMP CAES VESP AVG P M COS IIII", laureate head right. The complete reverse legend should be: "AVGVR (at the top) TRI POT" with an assortment of religious implementia - the simpulum, aspergillium, jug & lituus. These were symbols of the augurate and the potificate, Vespasian being the holder of both of those titles in addition to the Potestas Tribunicia.

This reverse type is copied from a coin of Octavian. The Flavian emperors created a lot of revival types and coins which were minted as an homage to some of their more popular predecessors among the Julio-Claudian family - of which this is an example - perhaps because they were the first emperors who were not of Julio-Claudian lineage and were hoping to associate themselves with the Julio-Claudians in the popular mind by reviving those emperors' coin types. 

Minted at Rome in 70-1 AD.
References: RSC 45; RIC II,i (the new one) 356 (and 42 in the old RIC II); SRCV 2282.

Mark

'Cooking' Celtic silver - looks like a very rare Cunobelin silver bust type

Back into the 'cooker' to remove more crust

'Cooking' Roman silver - could be a BC type

Back into the 'cooker' to remove more crust

Finished cooking this Roman silver coin sent for 2nd ID - cooking to remove crust (Ed)

We will need to see what appears on the obverse - particularly in the legend - before I can be completely certain who this is beyond "an Antonine woman".  It's highly unlikely to be Faustina Sr. since the main body of her coinage is posthumous and the reverse type - PVDICITIA - would be a quality or virtue only of a living woman.  I suspect Faustina Jr. for the following reasons:

The shape of the head and the hair style seem to strongly suggest the Antonine era, and although it could be either Faustina Jr. (issued under Antoninus Pius or Marcus Aurelius), Lucilla or Crispina, the length of the obverse legend suggested under the encrustation is likely only on a coin of Faustina Jr.
Although PVDICITIA is a reverse type which could appear on any Imperial wife's coinage and did, in fact, appear on at least 75% of Imperial wives' coins, in a quick search I found this exact posture of Pudicitia only on a denarius of Faustina Jr.

But we'll have to wait and see what the cooker reveals on the obverse.

Mark

Now that we can read (or at least puzzle-out) the obverse legend well enough to be certain that it reads: FAVSTINA AVGVS-TA AVG PII F = "Faustina, Augusta, Devoted Daughter of the Emperor"   She was honored as Augusta in her own right when her mother died in 147, this was several years before before her husband, M. Aurelius was made Augustus (161). She married Marcus Aurelius in 145 and died a few years before him in 175. 

We can now be certain that this is a lifetime issue for Faustina Jr. which was issued by authority of her father, Antoninus Pius.  This issue dates to 156-7 from the mint at Rome.
From his ascencion to Augustus in 161 onward, her later issues of coins, both lifetime and posthumous types, were issued by authority of her husband.

This is an unusual form of obverse legend and is almost unique to this specific type, although this type is not considered particularly scarce. References include: RIC III 508a; RSC 184; BMC1092; and SRCV 4707.

Mark

Finally cooked continental billion coin - 37% silver

1866 Leopold - German states - Lippe Detmold

12 EIEN THALER 2 1/2 SILBER GROSCHEN

Obv PAUL FRIERE.EMIL LEOPOLD FURST Z, LIPPE

Finally cooked continental billion coin - 37% silver

19thC Russia Alexander II - 15 Kopeks silver coin

PObv - CII b HI

As dug, annealed and fixed

1180 Henry II hammered silver short cross coin - Class 1b

Obv HENRICVS REX

Rev +ALWARD.ON.LVND - Alward of London mint

As dug, annealed and fixed

1422-27 Henry VI hammered silver penny - Annulet issue Annulets by neck, annulets in opposing quadrants in reverse crossObv HENRICVS REX
Rev VIL/LA/CAL/ISIE - Calais mint