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Some England finds
By:Joka
Date: 4/6/2008 3:16 pm

Just got back yesterday again from England. Had a good trip this time with some nice coins and relics.
The weather was great (for England) :b and we actually got sunburned the last couple days.

First up is some pipe frags that we eyeballed on the fields, my buds gave em all to me since I have a nice display case of them.

This next one is a Venetian Soldino hammered silver coin (1501-1521). This coin is smaller than a US ½ dime. Really cool find and my first Italian hammered.


This is a ring fragment, thought it was Roman at first, but they are leaning more towards Medieval now. It's a seal ring, final date ID will be from the museum when they see it.


This is a really great find. It's a Roman bronze serpent headed dagger pommel 23.18mm L x 11.88mm T, 17.82g dating from 1st century AD. This is my second dagger pommel. Oh the stories it could tell.



This little guy came up the first day, usually don't find roman's this nice but the ground was kind to it.
It's a 4thC Roman bronze. Here is some additional info from our roman expert:
This type was struck c. 347-348 AD. It was the last series before the monetary reform which brought in the ubiquitous and lengthy series of FEL TEMP REPARATIO "soldier & fallen horseman" types in various sizes (and other, less common FEL TEMP types) Struck by both Constantius II and Constans, I don't think we're going to be able to tell which of the two this is. With not a single letter of the obverse legend still on the coin due to edge-chipping, there really isn't any other way to discriminate between the 2 brothers. The reverse type is 2 confronted Victories holding wreaths with the legend being VICTORIAE DD AVGG Q NN ("Victory! [to] our masters the two emperors") - this type has occasionally been described as: "2 Angels playing tennis (or ping-pong)" by young students in the ACE program (the educational concern for which I work) who are asking for help in ID'ing their 1st Roman coin.
The mint mark is similarly lost - or never made it onto the coin to begin with - these being struck quickly in large numbers and rather carelessly in general. But this type was only struck in mints on the European continent, so Rome, Trier, Arles, Lyon, Siscia, etc. are the most likely points of origin.


I eyeballed this fossil in the field. It is thought to be 60 million years old. Looks just like a starfish imprint on it. That F75 picks up everything :J)

Messages In This Thread

Some England finds
Joka -- 4/6/2008 3:16 pm
Did the fossil give the fossily tone
Celtic digger -- 4/6/2008 9:09 pm
Yeah, that F75 is amazing
Joka -- 4/6/2008 9:15 pm
Nice Diggin' Bruce....
jimmieluv -- 4/6/2008 9:13 pm
Thanks Jimmie
Joka -- 4/6/2008 9:16 pm
another succussful hunting trip for ya...
Eric -- 4/6/2008 10:21 pm
Re: another succussful hunting trip for ya...
Joka -- 4/7/2008 8:46 am
Nice goin' Joka....Glad you made it home O.K. too...
JT-in-Bama -- 4/7/2008 10:30 am
No problems JT
Joka -- 4/7/2008 12:11 pm
Nice Finds Joka
Dan Patterson(MS) -- 4/12/2008 8:05 am