2018 April Finds page

Roman gold coin send for ID

19mm,7.70g

Well, even though Roman gold is way out of the orbit in which I normally travel, I see absolutely no reason to question its authenticity. I presume you know this is an aureus of Claudius. It’s obviously clear enough overall that there should be no doubt about the legends, but for the sake of form:
Obv: TI CLAVD CAESAR AVG GERM P M TR P laureate head of Claudius right
Rx: CONSTANTIAE AVGVSTI Constantia seated left on curule chair
Mint of Lugdunum, 41/2 AD.
RIC I 2, BMC 1, CBN 19.

My congratulations to all involved – well found!
Mark

13thC seal matrix

Bird facing right with double long beak

Legend PRIVE SV (I am private)

Sent to our seal expert for his views

It's another PRIVE SV, Chris. HAMP-EA9E0$ and SF-470BCD are particularly close with the upraised and spread wing. If you simple search "matrix bird PRIVE SV" you'll find parallels. In this case I found it was much clearer simply reversing the original than looking at the impression -- sometimes it's like that!

regards,

Malcolm

1279 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Obv + EDW **** DNS hYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/DVN/** Durham mint

1377 - 99 Richard II hammered silver half penny - Type 1n

Obv +RICARD.REX.ANGL

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON London mint

1327 Edward III hammered silver groat

Rev S/EBO/ - York mint

c 1800 Napoleonic Wars East Essex Militia button - sent for date confirmation and recording

​​​The East Essex Militia were formed in 1759 and became the Essex Rifles Militia in 1853 during this period they had five styles of known button, this one is not listed yet.

Unlisted on

http://asahelena.wixsite.com/militarybuttons/buttons-e-f

Apologies for the delay in reply. This East Essex Militia style would date to c1790-1800. There is however no conclusive dating evidence for this style but has to be pre 1830 with GR script. The unit itself was raised in 1759 and there is at least two earlier designs to the unit known
Hope that helps
Steve

Post Medieval cast copper alloy single loop buckle frame.

1500-1650 AD

Huge 1720 Continental copper coin

Portugal 10 Reis

Obverse

Lettering:
J*V*
D.G.PORT.ET.ALG.REX

Reverse

Lettering:
*X*
*1713*VTILITATI*PVBLICÆ

1351-52 Edward III hammered silver groat- Series C annulet in third qtr on reverse - annulet under bust

Obv +EDW****

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

1485 Henry VII hammered silver half penny - Cross furchee - Open crown

im.Pheon: 'brushed hair' type

Obv HENRIC DI GRA REX A

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

1279 Edward 1st hammered silver long cross penny

Obv +EDWAR****

Rev **I/TAS/DVN - Durham mint

1199 John hammered silver short cross half penny - Class 5b

Obv *ENRICVS REX

Rev REV/ON C- Moneyer Andreu of Canterbury mint

1199 John silver short cross half penny - Class 5b

Obv *ENRICVS **

Rev ON.CICE - Chichester mint

Georgian silver button

'C.GRIFFITH LONDON'

Neat glass Georgian fob seal matrix

Roman style tent peg

Irish 1279-1301 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Obv EDWR ANGL DNS HYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/DUBL/INIE - Dublin mint

1369-77 Edward III hammered ilver penny - Post Treaty period - quadrefoil at centre of reverse cross

Obv *** L FRAN

Rev TAS/EBO - York mint

1634-5 Charles 1st hammered silver shilling - Bell mint marl (12 pence)

Large 60mm dia medieval lead bird feeder

1344 Edward III hammered silver farthing - Type 1

Obv EDWARD*****

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

1280 Edward 1st hammered silver penny - Cross 1 - Class 3cd

Obv + EDWR ANGL' DNS hYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/LYN/C *** Lincoln mint

1413 -22 Henry V hammered silver half penny - Type 10

Annulet to left and trefoil to right by hair

Obv + hENRIC x Rex X:ANGL'

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

1247 Henry III hammered silver voided long cross farthing

Rev EIN - Bury St Edmunds mint

18thC 11th Regiment of foot button - pewter

XI regiment

Hanmer's (11th/Devonshire) Regiment

Remaining in Ireland until 1703, the Devonshires then joined John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough's, army in Holland, where they assisted to capture the fortress of Huy and the city of Limburg, then held by the Spaniards. The Regiment's next campaign was in Portugal in 1705, and, after a visit to England, again in 1708.

In 1711 the 11th formed part of the unsuccessful expedition against the French in Canada.

Except in 1715 and 1719, where the 11th gave a good account of itself in Scotland, the Regiment's history is uneventful for some thirty years. In 1719 Spanish troops landed in Ross-shire, and were joined by the Scottish clans of the neighbourhood. The 11th formed part of a small force which, charging with the bayonet, dispersed Spaniards and Highlanders, won the Battle of Glenshiel, and broke the insurrection.

19thC Insurance Token

Obv Mutual

Rev Wagoon. Horses

1770's 18 shillings coin weight

Ibv S 18

1279 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Obv EDWAR ANGL DNS hYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

Classic Roman mounts

Very unusual Roman bronze mount - possible lynch pin with hole through pin

11,000 BC flint scraper

Post-medieval copper alloy double-looped buckle frame, both loops trapezoidal. The very distinctive form is as Whitehead 2003 no. 527

c.1620 - c.1680

1216 Henry III hammered silver short cross farthing

Rev ON.C+ - Canterbury mint

1247 Henry III hammered silver voided long cross farthing

Rev VND - London mint

1247 Henry III hammered silver voided long cross farthing

Rev LE.I - Carlise mint

Alexander II 1214-49 Scottish hammerd penny

Obv ALEX***

1501-1521 Leonardo Lauredan, Doge

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.

1788 George III Worchester visit medallion

Obv George III Dei Gratia

Rev Worchester August 6th 1788

Victorian gold sovereign scale arm

Cleaned up stunning BC Roman silver coin sent for ID

As it turns out, there are very few trigas (3-horse hitch) on Roman coins of any type – only a few among the Republicans which run heavily to quads- and bi-gas. It’s C. Naevius Balbus, 79 B.C.
This is specifically the only type of serrate denarius with a triga reverse.

Also, the “SC” on the obverse is quite unusual as well, indicating that the silver for the issue was approved – probably as a huge emergency issue to raise and equip an army during the civil war disturbances at the time of Sulla’s dictatorship – by a specific act of the Senate. Not particularly early, and definitely not rare, but in the Republican silver series, it is a unique combination of all of these somewhat lesser-seen elements: serrate, triga, “SC”. The “CCV” on the reverse is a control mark and variable.

Mark

Cunobelin wild type gold contemporary forgery stater, VA 1933-1. VA 1933 type recorded although there are some minor variations in the size of the star over the horse (Van Arsdell splits them into small and large, but it's not always easy to decide where small ends and large begins!). Probably somewhere around the middle of his reign, perhaps c. 20 - 25 AD'.

1656 Richard Rich of Colchester Essex hammered copper trade farthing

Ref Norweb 1216

Disclaimed treasure fixed gold ring and sapphire reset

Unique ID: ESS-77F7D3

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

Disclaimed treasure fixed gold ring

Stunning 14thC medieval gold ring

1.26g, 20mm

Lombardic script possibly Latin

A medieval gold finger ring. The object has a flat band, slightly concave and with an engraved decoration on the outer surface. There is an inscription in black letter style writing, which reads tout mon coer (all my heart). Engraved between each word is a plant, resembling a palm or fern. The ring is slightly distorted with a small crack visible on the internal surface.

Dimensions: diameter (distorted): 17.26 mm; thickness: 0.84 mm; weight: 1.23g

Mid 4thC Roman bronze coin sent for ID

It’s easy to tell you the type and even, probably, the mint here. What I can’t tell you with certainty is who among the members of the “House of Valentinian” issued it – the obverse legend is completely missing due to edge-chipping. So is the reverse legend, but the type is pretty obvious – it’s a SECVRITAS REIPVBLICE restored centenionalis. Most likely to be, in this order:
Valens, 364-378
Valentinian I, 364-375
Gratian, 367-383

Although it may not be from the same mint (several of the Western mints used privy-mark systems which, among other marks, would have placed an F in the left field) this is the same basic type – and definitely from Siscia:

http://www.stoa.org/gallery/album82/20_Valens_SER_SIS?full=1
Although this certainly is not a design unique to this series – Victory walking left carrying wreath and palm-branch is on literally hundreds - perhaps thousands – of  different coin types from all over the Empire, as well as on many pre-Roman Greek coin types.  However, given the “F” in the field which is likely indicative of a Western mint as well as the history of the pieces you seem to find regularly, I’d be really surprised if it were not a House of Valentinian centenionalis.

Mark

Great eyeball find - 450 million year old fossil

Sea Urchin Echinoid

Huge lead hanging seal matrix - circa 15thC

Partial legend

Medieval hammered silver long cross penny

Obv DNS hYB+ ****

Rev TAS/C ***

Roman silver hoard coin No35 - sent for ID and reported as hoard addendum to museum

18mm, 3.11g

Roman silver coin - needs 'cooking'to remove crust

16mm,3.12g

Post medieval cast copper alloy two piece buckle

C1650-1725

70BC Morini Celtic gold qtr - sent to PAS for recording

1.39g,11mm

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

1.32g,11mm

1stC BC to 1stC AD Celtic cosmetic wode grinder

16thC Tudor gilded silver clothing fastener - reported to museum as treasure

Interesting gilded hollow copper horse filled with lead ??

1296 -1318 Edward 1st hammered silver penny - pellet on breast - Clss 2c

Obv **** DNS hYB+

Rev VILL/ABE/REV/VICI - Berwick mint

Louis XII (1497-1515)French Jetton

Rev Simple cross patty

Obv Three circles of Tournai

Description: ​Letters KO either side of crown above Staffs knot

Category:​​English Infantry Militia

Type of button: Convex ​;

Metal: Copper Alloy gilded.Backmark:​;

Date: ​1805-c1853.

Huge post medieval mount

Roman bronze foot

Unknown 17thC coin weight - possible foreign issue

Obv bust facing left

Rev II D XX

Not in Withers British coin weights ref book

1216 Henry III hammered silver short cross farthing

Rev ON.C+ - Canterbury mint

850BC Bronze Age socketed Axe head

Reverse
A man, supposed to represent the Duke of Cumberland, in crude imitation of a gold sovereign, with the legends:-
TO HANOVER 1837

Roman lead disc

76th French regiment button

Circa 1803-1814

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