2023 March Finds page

Tx Rob

10-40 AD Cunobelin Celtic gold qtr stater- reported to museum

1.424g, 11.04mm

Linear type - Corn ear with central stalk- CA to L,MV to R

Horse with ladder mane, branch above

Classed as rare ABC2810

Large hollow copper bust- could be William IV 1834

1377-1399 Richard II hammered silver half penny

Obv + RICARD. REX x ANGL

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON- London mint

1327 Edward III hammered silver penny

Obv **X ANGLI +

Rev/LON/DO ** - London mint

450 million year old fossils

Sea Urchin Echinoid

Echinoids (sea urchins and sand dollars) are echinoderms, related to sea stars and crinoids. All echinoderms have external skeletons made of numerous plates of the mineral calcite (a form of calcium carbonate), and a unique water vascular system that drives most of their motion. Echinoids have rounded or flattened shells, called tests, which bear numerous spines. Tiny tube feet, connected to the water vascular system, extend through holes in the test and allow the animals to move on or within the sea floor. All echinoids exhibit the characteristic five-fold symmetry of echinoderms.

1199 King John hammered silver short cross penny- class 5

Obv hENRICVS REX

Rev ILGER 0N LVNI - Moneyer Ilger of London mint

1352- 1353 Edward III hammered silver groat (4 pence ) Series D Cross 1 - annulet stops, Pre treaty period

Obv +EDWARD Do Go REXo ANGL Z FRANCo D hYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

Army Volunteers button - research it

'RACV'

Description: Crowned 38 over 'Staffs' knot design.  ​

Category:​​ Regular Army;

Type of button: Convex 16mm​;

Metal: Copper Alloy, silvered; Backmark​: Unreadable;

​Date: c1800-1820 ​

RN Capt / Commander - 1901
Other Ship's Officers - 1901
In use 1901 - 1952

Kings crown

Medieval seal matrix - needs soaking to reveal inscription

Roman silver coin sent for ID

The "silverroman" is Galba - one of the short-lived list of emperors succeeding Nero, from which eventually Vespasian became the long-term winner and took over, founding the Flavian dynasty (which included Titus and Domitian - both sons of Vespasian).
Galba was the first, and longest reigning of these minute-emperors, but his coins, although not so challenging to acquire as are Otho's and Vitellius', Galba's coins are scarce to rare and very much in demand as one of the "Twelve Caesars".
I'm afraid the reverse is too far gone for me to be certain which reverse your denarius has, but it might be a legend within a wreath like "OB / CIVIS / SERVATOS" (one of the more often seen legends in wreath for Galba.)
I'll write a little later about the bronze piece - that's not going to be so easily ID'ed, but I'll see what I can find out about it.
Mark

18thC decorated musket mount ?

Description: 63 incised within eight pointed star.

Category:​​ Regular Army;

Type of button: Flat 22mm ​;

Metal: Copper Alloy silvered; Backmark​: I McGOWAN GERRARD ST LONDON

​Date: c1800-1820  ​

An officers example to the 63rd unusally with incised rather than raised numerals, known as the 63rd Regt of Foot 1758-1782 and then West Suffolk 1782-1881.

East India Company
2 Fanam 1764-1807

Obverse shows Vishnu standing, holding chakra in each upper hand

2½ Schilling Courant = 1⁄24 Rigsdaler Specie

RN Master - 1807-1825
RN Ass't Master - 1807-1825
RN Volunteer Gr.II - 1824-1825
In use 1807 - 1825

Note: Anchors below stock

2nd Roman silver coin - sent for ID

3.38g, 18.01mm dia - 2.3mm thick

Your boys (and girls?) are finding some pretty impressive early denarii - this is the "Gaius & Lucius denarius" ofr Augustus.
You see very little of the legend detail here - perhaps it will be clearer when/if this piece gets a bit of conservation work.
Here's a photo of what a more clear specimen would look like:


As you can see, this coin is a virtual mine of long, detailed legends - this type tended to be struck on flans not quite large enough, often struck a bit off-center, so to find one with complete, legible legends obverse and reverse is pretty unusual.
I can't tell how much of yours may eventually be revealed as legible.

"AUGUSTUS. 27 BC-14 AD. AR Denarius, Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck 2 BC-4 AD. Laureate head right / Gaius and Lucius standing, facing; shield and spears between them; simpulum and lituus above. RIC I 207; RSC 43
This type commemorates Gaius and Lucius Caesars, the grandsons of Augustus by Marcus Agrippa, as heirs to the imperial throne. Gaius became Princeps Iuventutis in 5 BC and Lucius in 2 BC. Their respective deaths in 4 AD and 2 AD were later attributed to Augustus' wife, Livia, to secure the throne for her son, the future emperor, Tiberius."
ML

56th REGIMENT OF FOOT. / AFTER 1881 :- 2nd Battalion The Essex Regiment

Officer - 1844-1871

Unknown hammered copper coin researching it - ID by Virg Phill

Obverse

Lettering: +ALFOS CEPT ET DOMINO

Reverse

Castle over waves.
With or without mint letter

Lettering: *REX.PORTUGALIE.ALGA

1327 Edward III hammered silver long cross penny

Quadrefoil at centre of reverse cross

Obv **** ANGLI

Rev EBO** York mint

1327 Edward III hammered silver long cross penny

Quadrefoil with pellet at centre of reverse cross

Obv + EDW

Rev **CI/CIVI/TAS - York mint

1279 Edward 1st hammered silver penny - Class 10cf reading VILL

Obv +EDW***NGL DNS hYB

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

'Spectamur Agendo'

Medieval knife pommel

Huge Post medieval lead trade weight - Possible William III

WH

Fl Paul

Pictures from the field

1.35g, 11.49mm

8-13 AD Celtic gold Cunobelin qtr stater- Bigga type- reported to museum

Neat Georgian fob seal

1850 Birmingham mint - 22 carat gold ring - star mark

4.48g, 22.7mm - Maker HS

Iron Age harness ring

1526-44 Henry VIII hammered silver gorat - Arrow mint mark

Silver jewelry ring with diamonds - charm fitting

1279 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Obv +EDW** hYB

Rev CIVI/T**/**N/DON - London mint

91st Regiment of foot- Argyllshire Highlanders

O/R's (Brass) - 1802-1881

Teddy Tail League badge is probably 1930s, the two main makers of these badges were J R Gaunt of London and Roden of London.

4thC Roman bronze coin - sent for ID

This is a centenionalis from the astronomical numbers of them, in several designs, which Constantine I approved to celebrate his move of the Imperial government seat to Constantinople.
This is the 'VRBS ROMA" type, honoring the traditional capital city (there was another, similar type with a different reverse, for Constantinople, too).
The small-coin type in serious contention for the largest number of specimens surviving from antiquity was the successive generations of GLORIA EXERCITVS types, two soldier flanking, first two, then only one standard in later years. There were also about half a dozen types in honor of specific members of the Constantine family - these all belong to the same two emissions of centenionales.
These pieces all date to the period 328-337 AD.
This example is from the mint at Trier - along with the mints at London and Lyon, a likely source for many of the (later Roman) coins you guys dig up in Britain.

A sharp & clear specimen of the same type and mint:and yours, for comparison's sake:



Obv: Helmeted and mantled bust of the personification of Rome - VRBS ROMA
Rev: anepigraphic. The Capitoline she-wolf standing left, looking back at the twins, Romulus & Remus, as babies, suckling.
ca. 328-337 A.D. - struck at all the western (and a few of the Eastern) mints.
Mark

1247 Henry III hammered silver voided long cross penny

Rev ENT/EDM - Bury St Edmunds mint

Pictures from the field - gold nugget found

Ancient gold nugget - 16.01mm L x 6 mm T

2.94g

1279 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Obv +EDWAR ANGL DNS hYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/CAN/TOR - Canterbury mint

1640's Civil war iron cannon ball

1/2lb - 40mm dia - Robinet

Interesting comparison of a 1796 George III cartwheel penny and a 1861 1/13th of a shilling Jersey copper

1327 Edward III hammered silver farthing

Obv +EDW*****REX AN

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

1561 Elizabeth 1st hammered silver sixpence - Pheon mint mark

2.86g,27.03mm

1605 James 1st hammered silver sixpence - Lis mint mark

2.86g, 25.4mm

Anglo Saxon gilded copper cosmetic spoon

1638-42 Charles 1st Aberystwyth hammered silver half groat - Large plume

1817 London silver spoon - duty paid symbol - date letter b

Maker CD -Charles Davy

1816
(registered Apr 1817)

Army button

RCS ?

Roman silver coin - needs 'cooking' to remove crust

2½ Silber Groschen - Friedrich Wilhelm IV

Kingdom of Prussia (German States)

1158 -1189 AD Henry II hammered silver penny ' Tealby' cross and crosslet type

1.09g,18.8mm

Ancient gold nugget - 16.01mm L x 6 mm T

2.94g,

81.24 L x 8.42mm W x 4.07mm T

11.21g

1stC BC to 1stC AD Celtic Woad cosmetic grinder - boat shaped

The grinder was used to pulverise vegetable material such as woad in the preparation of dyes.

These are also known as perfume or cosmetic grinders. During the Celtic period in Britain a biennial herb called Isatis Tinctoria; was cultivated for the blue dye that could be obtained from it when crushed. This plant is also known as woad. The dye would then be applied to the skin

Gold wrist Torc fragment ? reported as treasure to museum

8.1g, 35mm L x 4.9mm dia

1603 James 1st hammered silver half penny - Thistle mint mark - First coinage

0.28g, 9.87mm

1279 Edward 1st hammered silver penny - Class 9

Obv +EDWR ANGL DNS hYB

Rev NOVI/CAS/TRI/VILL- Newcastle mint

1.11g,17.08mm

1247 Henry III hammered silver voided longcross farthing

0.32g, 8.99mm

1279 Edward 1st hammered silver penny - Class 9

Obv +EDWAR ANGL DNS hYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

Venetian soldino

1501-1521Leonardo Lauredan, Doge
0.26g,12.08mm

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.

0.23g, 12.01mm

4thC Roman bronze coin - sent for ID - 2.0g, 18.38mm

You lucked out on this one - if I hadn't cataloged a couple of these recently I might not have recognized the SARMATIA DEVICTA centenionalis of 323-324 A.D.
You were right on with the dating - Although I can't be certain who it is, this is either Constantine I or his son Constantine Jr.
This was a short-lived issue, only struck at the western (European) mints.
Yours is from the London mint.

The reverse shows Sarmatia, walking right, carrying a trophy and palm-branch and treading-down a bound captive at her feet.

Mark

Interesting lead measuring cup

Gold casting waste

0.96g, 11.76mm

1279 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Obv EDWAR R ANG ***

Rev ***N/DON - London mint

1485 - 1509 Henry VII hammered silver sovereign penny - DR by shield

Bishop Sherwood

1280 Edward 1st hammered silver farthing - Sterling silver issue no inner circle on Obv side

Type 10 bust to edge of flan type

Rev ERAN GLIE

Rev LONDONIENSIS - London mint

Huge Victorian copper finial

Iron Age tool ?

1327 Edward III hammered silver half groat

Rev CIVT**/***/DON - London mint

1279 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Obv +EDW** DNS hYB

Rev TAS/LON/DON - London mint

1640's iron cannon ball

3.6oz, 1.2 inches

Erarly 19thC copper Napoleon figurine

17thC Charles 1st/2nd coin weight

'CR'

1905 Brimingham silver sheet - pipe mount

Marker TCG - T C Gooding & Co

1872 Victoria brass half sovereign

Obverse

Lettering:
VICTORIA DEI GRATIA
1872

Reverse

Lettering: THE PRINCE OF WALES MODEL HALF SOVN

20th Alloy pendant

'Cherish this and prosper'

1279 Edward 1st hammered silver farthing

Rev /LON - London mint

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