2025 April finds page

1854 Victoria milled gold sovereign

8g, 22.05mm

1828 George IV milled gold half sovereign

4 g, 19.36g

18thC

The 59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot

They served in the American war of Independence and later became the 2nd Battalion of the East Lancashire Regiment.

One piece Navy buttons

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

17thC hammered copper trade token

John Wyyron of Wantage Berkshire

IWM

Ref Norweb 255

Massive 3.49mm thick coin - 8.48g, 33mm dia ?

2 sols français, Bust left, Liberty cap above fasces, oak wreath surrounds, LOUIS XIV ROI DES FRANCAIS

1279 Edward 1st hammered silver farthing

Obv +EDWARDVS REX **

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

Scots Guards Cap Badge. Circa WWI

"Nemo me impune lacessit" is a Latin phrase meaning "no one attacks me with impunity," and it's the motto of the Order of the Thistle, Scotland's highest order of chivalry

18thC bullion weight

5 pennyweights

1279 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Obv +EDWAR ANGLE DNS hYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

1279 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Obv +EDW*****

Rev TAS/LON - London mint

1413-22 Henry V hammered silver half penny

Broken annulet to bust

Obv NRICx

Rev /CAN - Canterbury mint

0.16g, 11.16mm

1461 4 Edward IV hammered silver half penny

Obv +EDWARD ***

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

0.37g, 12.6mm

Unknown reverse legend - possile continental sterling imitation

1279 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Obv +EDWAR ANGL DNS hYB

Rev :VIL/*AR/ERM/*CI

Crisp 2ndC Roman silver sent for ID

Trajan, 96-117 A.D. AR denarius (your metrology here)
Mint of Rome, 109 A.D.
Obv: I[MP TR]AIANO AVG GER DAC P M [TR P]
laureate bust of Trajan right, drapery on left shoulder
Rev: [C]OS V P P SPQ[R OPTIM]O PRINC
Pax standing left holding olive-branch and leaning on column
RIC II 126; RSC 83; SRCV 3126
This looks as though it may have decent detail under the crust, although it may take a while to soften the deposits.
Mark

Cal Tony found this complete example on the web

Beautiful Antique Victorian Nouveau 18k Gold Natural Ruby Snake Stick Pin Box

Stunning 1890 Victorian gold pin mount - natural ruby stone

2.54g, 19.45mm L

1630-40 Charles 1st hammered silver shilling (12 pence) - Triangle mint mark

1830 silver spoon - date letter g, Sheffiled mint - 17thC Trefid handle design

Martin Hall & Co Ltd

1272 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Obv DNS/hYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/CAN - Canterbury mint

1422 -1427 Henry VI hammered silver penny - extra annulet in centre of reverse pellets

Obv+hEN****

1279 Edward 1st hammered silve rpenny

Obv +EDWAR ANGL DNS hYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

1279 Edward 1st hammered silve rpenny

Obv +EDWAR ANGL DNS hYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/CAN/TOR - Canterbury mint

1279 Edward 1st hammered silver half rpenny

Obv +EDW****

Rev /LON/DON - London mint

THE 44th REGIMENT OF FOOT. / AFTER 1881 :- 1st Battalion The Essex Regiment

Description: 44 under crown.  ​

Category:​​ Regular Army;

Type of button: Convex 19mm ​;

Metal: Copper Alloy silvered; Backmark​: Possibly reads NUTTING;

​Date: c1800-1820 ​

1871 Gold stud - Marked - 9 carat Birmingham Date letter W sideways anchor

Maker OP

Owen Powell

1260 AD Non Heraldic personal seal 4 have been found attached to pasture rights. The design is typical of mid 13thC non heraldic seals.

Medieval (13th century) lead alloy seal matrix. It is circular in plan, with a complete suspension loop.. The central design is a flower with eight petals with owners legend.

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Finder applying for an export licence

Chronology

Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL

Date from: AD 1200
Date to: AD 1400

Dimensions and weight

Materials and construction

Primary material: Lead

Manufacture method: Cast

1887 Dutch 10 cents silver coin

Obverse

Bust of King Willem III facing right

Script: Latin

Lettering:
WILLEM III KONING DER NED.G.H.V.L.
I. P. S.

Unabridged legend: Willem III Koning der Nederlanden Groot-Hertog van Luxemburg

Translation: William III King of the Netherlands Grand-Duke of Luxembourg

Engraver: Johannis Petrus Schouberg

1279 Edward 1st hammered silver farthing - type 28

Obv +EDW **REX A

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

0.32g,11.04mm

1279 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Obv *****NGL

Rev TAS/EB*** - York mint

17thC John Hill of Melton Suffolk hammered copper trade farthing

Obv ' at the sack Shope ' IHE

Rev John Hill in Melton - ship

Roman terret ring

They are found down to a diameter of 10-12mm with little or no legend and little detail, too

The output of low denomination coins at Rome in this chaotic period tends to be so crude that it's not always possible to tell if any given specimen was the product of an official or unofficial mint.
Mark

4thC Roman bronze sent for ID

This is a contemporary copy ("barbarous radiate") of a billon antoninianus of Claudius Gothicus, 268-270 A.D.
Not much of the obverse legend survives except the final "IO" of DIVO CLAVDIO
Right-facing radiate head of Gothicus
The reverse legend is similarly incomplete (damage, corrosion & wear) but began as CONSECRATIO.
A garlanded, flaming altar enclosure shows "horns" at the top corners - not a trace of an exergual mintmark shows. Perhaps with some careful cleaning, it might be possible to attribute the prototype which this piece copies to a specific mint, but the vast majority of these were struck at Rome. They're also known for Siscia and Cyzicus.
In general, the posthumous coinages of Gothicus (by his very short ruling brother, Quintillus and continuing into the early reign of Aurelian) dates the original to ~ A.D. 270. These copies are more common than the originals, and would have continued to be struck in decreasing numbers from 270 to ~ 275.
These copies are common finds in Britain and Gaul.
This is an example of the "official" type

Mark

1279 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Rev RACI *** - York mint

Mid 4thC Roman copper coin sent for ID

Chris,
With no visible legend (except the "VG" of AVG at the end of the name) I can't really pin down exactly who issued it. It belongs to the same mid-late 3rd century as the Gothicus memorial piece from a couple days ago. This could be from Gallienus, Gothicus, Quintillus, Aurelian, as well as any one of the several Empire of Gaul rulers. Postumus, Victorinus, and the two Tetrici are the most commonly seen, although there are a couple of scarce-rare emperors who lasted only a week or two and didn't have time enough to issue a large number of coins. It's somewhat unlikely, but it might even be an unofficial issue copying one of the British Empire rulers like Carausius or Allectus
Unfortunately, without any legend on the reverse I can only make a guess based on what little is visible - reverses of this era are typically an allegorical personification of a virtue, a god or demi-god. This I believe is either Pietas sprinkling incense on a small flaming altar or possibly Salus feeding a serpent rising from a short altar. Pax standing left holding an olive-branch and scepter is another possibility..

Below you'll see an example of a Tetricus I antoninianus with a Salus reverse - not necessarily exactly like your coin, but another one of the enormous number of surviving small and crude antoniniani from the chaotic period of the 2nd half of the 3rd century.
The coin in question (yours) is, I think, an official issue - but like I said before, it's not always possible to tell if any given piece of this type is from an official or unofficial mint-source,

Keep digging this area! - who knows whose coinage you'll find next? - there are so many possible issuers of coins in this general category which might well have been struck in, circulated in, or ended-up in Britannia. They're all quite a bit earlier than the similarly small, typical 4th century pieces you often seem to find.
Mark

Heybridge Horse type Celtic gold qtr stater - Trinovantes tribe c50-BC - reported to museum


Wreath between two pellet lines,stylised locks of hair above, crescents and pellet ring motifs below


Horse r,large rump,various pellets around, pellet boss below ABC 2359

1.25g, 11.2mm

Medieval heraldic shield pendant - red enamelled eagle

Eastern Union Railway button

Eastern Union Railway uniform button. The company opened in 1846 and leased its line to the Eastern Counties Railway in 1854. Both companies became part of the Great Eastern Railway in 1862.

84th Regiment of Foot
( York & Lancaster )

O/R's (Brass) - 1855-1881

1279 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Obv +EDWARR ANGL DNS hYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

1279 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Quadrefoil with Pellet at centre of reverse cross - York mint

Roman decorated vessel mount

1216 Henry III hammered silver short corss half penny

Rev .ON.L - London mint

1279 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Obv EDWARDVS **

'A badge for a Knight of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre in bronze and dating somewhere around C13/14th possibly very slightly later . This is a very scarce item and it relates to The Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem being a Catholic chivalric order of Knighthood that traces its roots to Godfrey of Bouillon, principal leader of the First Crusade. According to reliable sources in the Vatican and Jerusalem, it began in historical reality as a mixed clerical and lay confraternity (association) of pilgrims which gradually grew around the most central of the Christian holy places in the Middle East, the Holy Sepulchre or the tomb of Jesus Christ.This would have been a pin for a member of the order , there is a mark on the reverse where the original pin would have been fixed '

'3rd Essex Local Militia gilt (b/m: Charles Jennens. London).

This is the 3rd Reg't of the Essex Local Militia.
Formed march 15th 1809, Disbanded 1816, for the Napoleonic Wars.
Based at Colchester, Lt. Col.Com. John Bawtree.

Tim'

1823 Madras Presidency (British India)

1/16th silver Rupee

1247 Heny III hammered silver voided long cross half penny

Ren HEN/ION - Moneter Henri

Taco'd 1279 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Obv -EDWR ANGL DNS hYB

1247 Henry III hammered silver voided long cross penny

Obv hENRICVS REX III

Moneyer Willem

(1422-1430) Henry VI hammered silver half groat - Annulet issue - double satire stops - annulets between two sets of pellets on obverse- 11 arches to tressure - IM Cross 1

Obv hENRIC DI GRA REX ANGL Z FR'

Rev VIL/LAx/CAS/ISx/ - Calaise mint

1279 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Obv +EDWAR ANGL DNS hYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/L**** - London mint

1279 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Obv +EDWAR ANGL DNS hYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/DVN/OLM - Durham mint

These are very rare to find debased 1544-7 Henry VIII hammered silver groat - bust 2 - 3rd issue

Mint mark Lis - CIVI/TAS/CAN/TOR -Canterbury mint

Toward the end of Henry VIII's reign, the silver was progressively debased from 9oz.2dwt. (.758) in 1544, through 6oz.2dwt (.508) in 1545, to 4oz.2dwt. (.342) in 1546. At this last standard, the blanched silver surface of the coins soon wore away to reveal the copper alloy beneath which earned for Henry the nickname 'Old Coppernose'.

1780 dated commemorative button - Louis XVI of France

CHRS·REGN·VINC·IMPER

3 lis in a roundal

1880-1890 John Robert Bedwell token Colchster Essex

Obverse

Legend on five lines, the top and bottom curved.

Lettering:
COLCHESTER
J. R.
BEDWELL
62 & 63
HIGH STREET

Reverse

Legend on five lines, the top three and bottom one curved.

Lettering:
FURNITURE BEDS AND PAPER HANGINGS *
PLATE
WATCHES
&

1798 George III milled gold half guinea - 4.143g, 2.044mm

Roman bronze mount

1279 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Rev ABR/ISTO - Bristol mint

Huge 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.

Very unusual seal matrix- The relief at the top is a lion facing right holding a shield.

Below is a roundal with the letters IEE in lombardic script suggesting medieval.

Not a construction I know.

1279 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Obv +EDWR ANGL DNS hYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/LIN/COL - Lincoln mint

1422-61 Henry VI hammered silver half penny

Obv hENRICxREX**

Rev TAS/LON/D - London mint

20th June 1837 William IV death medal

Obverse

Plain portrait right

Script: Latin

Lettering: WILLIAM IV KING OF GREAT BRITAIN

Reverse

Funerary urn on pedestal with weeping willow tree to left

Script: Latin

Lettering:
BELOVED & LAMENTED
·DIED JUNE 20 1837·
AGED 72

48mm heigh

Victorian horse brasses

Victorian horse brass

1806 silver spoon handle - Duty paid bust Birmingham mint

Maker IT

A similar mark registered Oct 1773 by John Turner

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

Standard F type JJ North 1429

Obv hENRIC DI GRA REX ANGL Z****

Rev inner VILLA CASTISIE - Calais mint

June 1361-1369 Edward III hammered silver half groat - Treaty B - double annulet and satire stops, Treaty X

Obv +EDWARDVSo REXo ANGLo DNSo hYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

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