2026 March finds page

Pretty Victorian gold ring with stones - confirmed emerald and diamonds

Necklace has now been restrung and is stunning double band type

Gold pendant with stones - tested as real peals - Full set of Continetal hall marks - Crown 0.750

Maker JG

Guicci stainless steel watch

1199 John hammered silver voided short cross penny - Class5c

Obv hENRICVS REX

1300 BC Bronze age foundry hoard ingot - reported as hoard addendum

45 x 37 x 20.6 mm - 136g

Ingot 20

Trinovantes Gold Quarter Stater Clacton Cross 50-40BC very rare

ABC2356, S41, VA1460

1.45g, 14.02 mm

1300 BC Bronze age foundry hoard ingots- reported as hoard addendum

31.8 x 18 x 40 mm - 77g

Ingot 21

1300 BC Bronze age foundry hoard socketed axe fragment - reported as hoard addendum

25.3g, 30.2 x 32.09 x 15.2 mm

Ingot 22

Nver seen this type before - Huge post medieval 1/2 lb lead seal matrix

Legend and makers symbol

45mm dia x 6.6mm T

1363-1369 Edward III hammered silver groat - Treaty series - Mint mark Cross potent - double satire stops on rev

Obv EDWARD DEI G REX ANGL DNS HYB Z AQT

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

17thC lead token -

Obv - bird facing left with tree

Rev SP

1279 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Obv +EDW***** hYB

Rev n/DON/CIVI - London mint

Unknow military button ?

Obv SMB

Late Early Medieval (Anglo-Scandinavian) cast copper alloy incomplete cheek piece from a harness fitting.

See PAS ESS-C06D96 HARNESS FITTING (Certain)

Chronology

Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Ascribed Culture: Anglo-Scandinavian
Date from: Circa AD 950
Date to: Circa AD 1100

1844 Victoria milled silver gold half sovereign

4.0g, 19.32mm

50 BC Celtic gold stater - Clacton G type - reported to museum

6.34g, 18.78

70 BC Great Waltham Celtic gold qtr stater- reported to museum

1.26g, 11.01mm

It's a class 3 Great Waltham type quarter, no. 399 in Divided Kingdoms (same dies), essentially a slightly later and cruder version of the Ingoldisthorpe quarter, which is class 2 in the British Ab/Ac north-east Thames series. I list 14 other examples in DK but there are at least 15 now. John Sills

Ancient gold ring with 2nd mounting ring attached - reported a streasure to museum - found in a previous known Roman gold 'bell' toggle relic area

1.47g, 12.58 mm dia x 1.58mm T

60BC Celtic gold stater - Westerham south- reported to museum

6.35g, 19.02g

1750's George II milled gold guinea

1.91g, 23.2mm

50 BC Celtic gold stater - Clacton type - reported to museum

6.27g, 19.47mm

1787 Carolus III Spanisg silver coin

1279 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Rev TAS/EBO - Bristol mint

Boys Brigade button

Stedfast

1640's Civil war iron cannon ball

280g, 1/2 Ib - 47.3mm dia

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

Kings crown

1279 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Obv +EDWAR ANGL DNS hYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

Cephalopods

Cephalopods, such as squid, octopods, nautiloids, ammonoids (see below), and belemnites, are mollusks with tentacles and beak-shaped mouths for catching prey. Some cephalopods such as belemnites and living cuttlefish have internal shells, while others have straight or coiled shells, such as those of ammonoids or nautiloids. Still other cephalopods, such as the octopus, have no shell. The mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous (famous for eliminating the non-avian dinosaurs) also eliminated belemnites and ammonoids, which had been extremely diverse during the Mesozoic.

Shield mount - Chronology

Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL

Period to: POST MEDIEVAL

Date from: AD 1540
Date to: AD 1700

1812 Napoleon milled silver 1/2 France coin

1812 Silver Demi / Franc
Pierre-Louis Athénas, Mint Master, Nantes (1796-1818)

Mint mark link

1856 Victoria milled gold half sovereign

3.96g, 19.27mm

11000 BC flint scraper

Castle Gold Foil Saumur Brass Token Medallion W&A Gilbey

W & A Gilbey Wine Merchants Brass Medallion Castle Gold Foil Saumur. Walter and Alfred Gilbey founded their wine business in London in 1857.

2000 BC Bronze Age flat axe

118mm L x 68mm W x 13mm T

368g

Distinction: They represent the transition from stone tools to metal, often predating more sophisticated, flanged, or socketed axes.

Unique ID: PUBLIC-D97ACA

Unique ID: PUBLIC-D97ACA

70 BC Great Waltham Celtic gold qtr stater- reported to museum

1.23g, 12.25mm

It's a class 3 Great Waltham type quarter, no. 399 in Divided Kingdoms (same dies), essentially a slightly later and cruder version of the Ingoldisthorpe quarter, which is class 2 in the British Ab/Ac north-east Thames series. I list 14 other examples in DK but there are at least 15 now. John Sills

1351-1361 Edward III hammered silver groat (4 pence) - pre treaty 3rd coinage

Obv +EDWARD DG REX ANGLE Z FRANC HYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON

1951 Enamelled badge

National Competition

Area finalist

1247 Henry III milled silver voided longcross penny

Obv hENRIC REX III

Rev WIL/LEM/ONC/ANT - Moneyer Willem of Canterbury mint

1377 -1399 Richard II hammerd silver penny Class 1 III

Obv + RICHARD ***** ANGLIE)

Rev C*** /RACI - York mint

19thC George III duty paid bust and London mint hallmarks

Maker

EB IH

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

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

Note: Anchors below stock

RN Purser - 1807
In use 1807 - 1825
In Gilt

1422 to 1461 Henry VI hammered silver half penny- Fleury mint mark

Double satire stops

Obv +hEN**** ANGLI

Rev AS/LON - 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

Interesting gold looking button ? - sent to museum for their views

1.36g, 14.79mm L x 11.5 mm W

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

Kings crown

1640's Civil War iron cannon ball

43.5mm dia - 1.72inch

265g, 1/2 Ib

1640's Civil War iron cannon ball

34mm dia -1.3 inch

110g, 0.25 Ib

1509-26 Henry VIII hammered silver half penny - Cross fourchee -single arched crown

Obv HENRIC DI GRA x****

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

Rev TAS/LON - London mint

1180 Henry II hammered silver short cross penny - Class 1

Obv hENRICVS REX

Rev ON LVN - London mint

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

Note: Anchors below stock

Late Early Medieval (Anglo-Scandinavian) cast copper alloy incomplete cheek piece from a harness fitting.

See PAS ESS-C06D96 HARNESS FITTING (Certain)

Chronology

Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Ascribed Culture: Anglo-Scandinavian
Date from: Circa AD 950
Date to: Circa AD 1100

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

Description: 40 within laurel wreath.  ​

Category:​​ Regular Army;

Type of button: Convex 20mm​;

Metal: Copper Alloy Gilt; Backmark​: T SHAW LONDON;

​Date: c1820-c1830 ​

The 40th (2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1717 and amalgamated into The Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment) in 1881

Notes: ​An officers example of a design that remained in use both for both officers and other ranks until 1881. The 40th Regt of Foot were the 2nd Somersetshire Regt of Foot between 1782-1881.

16thC gilded silver Tudor mount - reported as treasure to museum

1614-25 James 1st hammered copper farthing Type 3c Mintmark key

General type Obv. IACO D G MAG BR (IT)

Rev. FRA ET HIB REX

'Love server one another'

1279 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

ISTO/LLIE - Bristol mint

Georgian watch winders

Medieval badge

'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 '

1279 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Obv +EDWAR ANGL DNS hYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/CAN/TOR - Canterbury mint

1279 Edwward 1st hammered silver half penny - Tyep 28 inner circles both sides

Obv +EDWARDVS REX

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

Bronze Age ingot

498g -29.3mm L x 20.2mm W x 11.7.mm T

Art Deco looking silver ring with stone

Maker RO

1296-1318 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Rev VILL/ABE - Berwick upon tweed mint

1279 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Obv **DND hYB +

Rev CIVI/TAS

45 BC to 25BC Addedomarus Celtic gold stater - Trinovantian tribe- reported to museum

5.4g, 16.7mm

Castle Gold Foil Saumur Brass Token Medallion W&A Gilbey

W & A Gilbey Wine Merchants Brass Medallion Castle Gold Foil Saumur. Walter and Alfred Gilbey founded their wine business in London in 1857.

1247 Henry III hammered silver voided long cross half penny

Rev RWI/IAC - Moneyer Jacob of Norwich mint

1247 Henry III hammered silver voided long cross half penny

Rev LDE/HEI - Moneyer Henri of London mint

Victorian rose gold brooch

1.45g, 13.8mm H

BC Roman silver coin - needs 'cooking' to remove crust

Fish head fossil ?

2ndC Roman silver coin sent for ID

You have a denarius of Vespasian here, ca.CE. 78-79
CAESAR VESPASIANVS AVG (ccw)
The reverse legend is shot, as you can see, but most likely CERES AVGVST
Ceres standing left, holding grain-ears and long torch
RIC I 132, RSC 54, SRCV 2283
Good digging, I hope you have a good season.
Mark

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

2.35g, 22.2mm

17thC gold posy ring - 'Love is endlejs' - Love is endless

Maker TF

0.7g, 18.2mm

1909 Victoria silver trim - London date letter O

Maker RD and L&Co

1216 Henry III hammered silver short cross half penny

Rev + WA

1216 Henry III hammered silver short cross farthing

Rev VNDE - London mint

1279 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

1279 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Obv *** AR ANGL

1279 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Obv + WA*** DNS hYB

Rev LON/DON - London mint

1422-61 Henry VI hammered silver penny - Cross pellet

Quadrefoil with cross at centre of the reverse cross - York mint

|Mid 4thC Roman bronze coin - sent for ID

This is a billon centenionalis of Constantine I ("The Great" 307-337 C.E.) this type was minted ~ 320-321 C.E.
There is so much crud on it, however, that there will be some details I won't be able to list for you immediately.
The reverse shows two bound captives seated back to back beneath a vexillum inscribed: VOT / XX in two lines.
The concentric legend is VIRTVS EXERCIT. This is one of the first types circulated after Constantine switched the main circulating denomination from the old pagan-reverse follis to the new centenionalis. It's not all that dissimilar, but centenionales do not use pagan reverse types.

1635-6 Charles 1st hammered silver half groat- Crown mint mark

Double struck obverse

18thC 5 pennyweight and 6 grains coin weight

Obv DG 56

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

Bronze Age sword end fragment

33mm W x 30.3 mm L x 6.5mm T

1675 Norway Christian V milled silver 2 skilling

Obverse

Crowned norwegian lion holding an axe, facing left in a beaded ring. Surrounded by inscription. Beaded ring on the rim.

Script: Latin

Lettering: CHRISTIAN·5·D·G·REX 🟌

Translation: Christian V, by the Grace of God, King.

Reverse

Value and date on four lines. Mintmark below the date. Beaded ring on the rim.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
✿ II ✿
SKILLING
DANSKE·
·1675·

Translation: 2 Danish Skilling.

Queen Victoria - '60 year' medallion

1837 - 1897

Unknown Charles 1st hammered silver penny

No beard - different crown mint mark not in ref books

the "no beard" or clean-shaven look generally corresponds to specific early types or specific depictions within the Tower Mint Group A or C issues (1625–1649). [1, 2, 3, 4]

200 million year old squid fossil

Belemnites lived during the periods of Earth history known as the Jurassic and Cretaceous; together, these represent a time interval of about 135 million years. The Jurassic Period began about 201 million years ago and the Cretaceous Period ended about 66 million years ago.

The belemnites became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous Period, at roughly the same time as the dinosaurs disappeared. However, we know a lot about them because they are commonly found as fossils, formed when the remains of traces of the animal became buried by sediments that later solidified into rock.

Srunning 17thC Charles II silver seal matrix

"Crowned bleeding-heart motifs and associated designs are seen to represent marital fidelity and love, and in some contexts religious and political (Royalist) beliefs."

Roman bird mount

1279 Edward 1st hammered silver farthing

Obv **EDW ****

Rev CIVI/

1279 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Obv EDW***ANGL DBS hYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/CAN/TOR - Canterbury mint

Amazing coin - earliest silver coin ever made by a milling machine - 1561-1571 Elizabeth 1st milled silver half groat - 6 pointed star mint mark

Elizabeth I (1558-1603), silver milled coinage by Elloye Mestrelle, undated earliest pre-production issue (1560-61),crowned bust left in elaborate dress and ruff, bust type A entirely within legend, initial mark mullet both sides, outer toothed circle and legend surrounding both sides, * ELIZABETH. D. G. ANG. FRAN. ET. HIB. REGINA, rev. long cross fourchée over quartered shield of arms, POSVI DEVM. AD IVTORE M. MEVM,

The abbreviated Latin legends translate as on the obverse "Elizabeth by the Grace of God, Queen of England, France and Ireland"; and on the reverse "I have made God my helper."

The mint mark of mullet (five-pointed star) was reserved only for use on the pre-production patterns, the currency milled pieces using the six-pointed mint mark of star. Though no original indentures or documentation survives for the production during the milled coinage by Mestrelle, writers Borden and Brown worked out in 1983 the sequence of dies used for the milled coinage, this represents the beginning being an example of the first milled coin ever produced in this country, the earliest issue struck in either December 1560 or January 1561.

Elloye Mestrelle likely arrived from Paris with his family in 1559, and along with his sibling Philip was already a skilled engraver. It is thought that he came to England to sell his skills to the Mint, as the Queen was concentrating her energy into the recoinage, having ascended the throne the year before. He may well have lost employment engraving in France, as the first mention of him is in a pardon by Queen Elizabeth of 24th March 1561 where he is forgiven for any treasons, felonies or offences before his arrival at the Mint dating before 1st March 1559. He seems to have secured a contract during 1560 at the Mint and was known to be acquiring materials for his machinery in June of that year.

Huge Medieval lead trade - long cross and pellet type

4oz (1/4 Ib) - 56mm dia

1640's Cvil War iron cannon ball - 32 mm dia

111g , 3.9oz-

Standard 1/4 lb shot

More info

1640's Cvil War iron cannon ball - 33mm dia

104g, 3.7oz -

Standard 1/4lb shot

More info

1663 Charles II milled silver petition crown forgery (60 pence)

24g, 40mm

The Petition Crown was a pattern coin produced in 1663 by Thomas Simon, a celebrated English medallist and coin-designer. The coin was submitted directly by the artist to King Charles II as a personal 'petition' against the contemporary coins designed by the Flemish brothers John and Joseph Roettiers, and for the further Royal consideration that only Simon's designs be used for all future specie now that machine-made currency had been adopted universally for the production of British coinage.

Charles 1st 1643 Crown - forgery silver plated brass (60 pence)

22.5g, 39mm

70BC uninscribed 'Q' Gold - 'Remi 'Type Celtic gold qtr stater - reported to museum

The Remi were a Belgic people of north-eastern Gaul (Gallia Belgica). The Romans regarded them as a civitas, a major and influential polity of Gaul,The Remi occupied the northern Champagne plain, on the southern fringes of the Forest of Ardennes, between the rivers Mosa (Meuse) and Matrona (Marne), and along the river valleys of the Aisne and its tributaries the Aire and the Vesle.


Their capital was at Durocortum (Reims, France) the second largest oppidum of Gaul on the Vesle. Allied with the Germanic tribes of the east, they repeatedly engaged in warfare against the Parisii and the Senones.They were renowned for their horses and cavalry.

1.26g, 12.3mm

Possible rare 15th C silver thimble with an openwork top and small, circular, manually produced indentations- reported as potential treasure

Very interesting silver button with star hall or makers mark on rear

Could be 16th/17thC treasure so sent to museum for thgheir views

Script: Latin

Lettering: DENİZCİLİK BANKASI T.A.O.

Royal Navy Lieutenant - 1748

RN Flag Officer - 1748
Full Dress - 1748 - 1767

Crown Anchor

RNR

Kings crown

1640's Iron cannon ball

184.8g, 6.5 oz - 38mm -1.5inch

16thC stone cannon ball

20.4g, 25.7mm - 1inch

Medieval gilded buckle chape

1279 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Obv +EDWAR *****yB

RevCIVI/TAS ***

1279 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

Obv EDWR****

Durham mint

Georgian fob seal - balloon impression

Medieval book cloasp

The distinguishing feature of this book format is its long extension of the leather cover
along the lower edge of the book, which allows it to be carried by hand, or be tucked
under the belt, held there by a large knob or hook incorporated into the overhanging
leather. Judging by contemporaneous representations in paintings, sculptures, drawings and in verbal descriptions the majority was made between about 1450 and 1650, mainly in what is now Germany, the Netherlands and England. Only about two dozen still exist, making it a very rare witness to medieval life between six hundred and seven hundred years ago.

1676 French silver coin

Obverse

Bust of Louis XIV, bare headed, draped on the right with long wig.

Script: Latin

Lettering: LVDOVICVS• •XIIII• D• GRA•

Unabridged legend: LVDOVICVS•XIIII•DEI•GRATIA•

Translation: Louis XIV, by the Grace of God...

Engraver: François Warin

Reverse

Crown above fleur-de-lis cross; mint mark in center.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
•FRAN• ET• NAVARRÆ• REX• 1676
A

Unabridged legend: Franciae et Navarrae Rex

Translation: ... King of France and Navarre.

Engraver: François Warin

Edge

Plain

Mints

1310-14 Edward II hammered silver halfpenny Type 12a

Obv +***ARD REX x ANGI'

Obv CIVI/***/LON/DON - London mint

1327 Edwadr III hammered silver penny

Obv +EDWAR ANGL DNS hYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/DVN/ELME/ -Durham mint

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