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Title: Do you remember your first hammered coin you found? Post by: Neil on December 23, 2009, 05:32:43 PM Trawling through my pc this evening I came across a pic of my first hammered coin I ever found.
I was with Mark and Jaydogg at the time in the Glorious VOG and I wasn't 100% sure it was a hamster. They soon put me right. Turned out to be Henry III. I was already hooked on detecting, but it took me 7 months to find my first! What do you know the next week I had a clipped Groat of Henry V! Found with the wonderful Minelab Muskateer - a cracking machine and cheap as chips to buy second hand these days. Do you remember your first hammie? Got a photo? Whos still waiting for one? How long? Cheers Neil Title: Re: Do you remember your first hammered coin you found? Post by: Terry on December 23, 2009, 05:36:14 PM No
Title: Re: Do you remember your first hammered coin you found? Post by: Roman (Ray) on December 23, 2009, 05:43:31 PM do i remember it neil.
ill never forget it.my first hammered happened to be a gold one.lol. story of my life.either all or nothing Title: Re: Do you remember your first hammered coin you found? Post by: Neil on December 23, 2009, 05:45:12 PM Ah, now that was a stater wasn't it Ray - I suppose we'll let it count! ;D ;D ;D
Terry - I seem to remember you having a Lizzy on a Detectingwales rally. Neil Title: Re: Do you remember your first hammered coin you found? Post by: Roman (Ray) on December 23, 2009, 05:52:21 PM hhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaa whats the odds on a first hammered being gold neil.lol
i suppose its like the lottery.lol. Title: Re: Do you remember your first hammered coin you found? Post by: SimonH on December 23, 2009, 05:52:25 PM Friday Sept 28, 2007
My 1st day out with the T2, a Henry VII Sovereign Penny - 12m from my fathers back garden lol Title: Re: Do you remember your first hammered coin you found? Post by: Neil on December 23, 2009, 05:55:51 PM I remember reading your post on the SCAN site - didn't realise until now that was you! I would get back in your dads garden mate. Where theres one . . . ::)
Neil Title: Re: Do you remember your first hammered coin you found? Post by: coleggwent(phil) on December 23, 2009, 06:06:28 PM i dont think i found one yet :o no my first was a james 1st sixpence clipped wasnot the word for it but i love it didnot have a clue what it was i was so happy i had to go home i could not detect any more for looking at it :-[ ;)
Title: Re: Do you remember your first hammered coin you found? Post by: SimonH on December 23, 2009, 06:18:23 PM I remember reading your post on the SCAN site - didn't realise until now that was you! I would get back in your dads garden mate. Where theres one . . . ::) Neil Yeah lol - it was approx 12metres away from the other finds in the garden. Between me and my father - we have found Forgery of a GEO III or IV shilling (1760-1820) Queen Elizabeth Sixpence (1582) William IV Silver Fourpence (1836) Henry VII Sovereign Penny (1485-1509) The house is 34 years old so no history or old buildings for about 1mile. There is a dewpond in the field that is shown on the 1886 map. Title: Re: Do you remember your first hammered coin you found? Post by: Legacy Hunter on December 23, 2009, 06:20:07 PM I have never found a hammered neither has steve :'(
Title: Re: Do you remember your first hammered coin you found? Post by: Jonola (Jon) on December 23, 2009, 06:26:27 PM Denarius, Sestersius even a Claudius As. But never a hammered. Seen Casa Dos pull them out of the ground next to me a few times though.....
Title: Re: Do you remember your first hammered coin you found? Post by: SimonH on December 23, 2009, 06:32:20 PM Denarius, Sestersius even a Claudius As. But never a hammered. Seen Casa Dos pull them out of the ground next to me a few times though..... Just goes to show that sometimes its where you swing it not how you swing it ;) Title: Re: Do you remember your first hammered coin you found? Post by: bymatt666 (byron) on December 23, 2009, 09:50:36 PM after 4 years i found my first (and only so far) hammered at a leisure promotions rally in wiltshire early on this year... :D....it's so brittle i cant straighten it.....it's an alexander 2nd or 3rd..scottish.....i'm still chuffed.... ;)...byron
Title: Re: Do you remember your first hammered coin you found? Post by: JoanneH on December 23, 2009, 10:00:51 PM congratz on finding that hammered byron - i hope i don't take that long to find my first one though.
Title: Re: Do you remember your first hammered coin you found? Post by: Tafflaff (Rob) on December 23, 2009, 10:26:43 PM My 1st came March 1st 2009 LiZ i Half Groat
(http://www.detectingwales.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=650.0;attach=1336) Title: Re: Do you remember your first hammered coin you found? Post by: handyman [Alan} on December 23, 2009, 10:32:47 PM mine was a hammered of guy of dampierre, 1250 to 1310 ish.
he was an amazing character - well worth reading up upon. Title: Re: Do you remember your first hammered coin you found? Post by: Chef Geoff on December 23, 2009, 10:39:46 PM I have some negatives somewhere, yes it was that long ago, I had been detecting for about 5 years without a sniff, then I got permission to detect a old 2 acre Glebe field in the middle of a small village, which was due for development, first day I found a Edward I farthing Which you could blow off your hand it was that worn. Over the next 10 months I recovered 164 coins from that 2 acres, 72 being hammered.
A site that dreams are made of, My detector at the time was a new Compass Coin Scanner, which was the new big thing that year, and in my mind is still the best detector that I ever owned, which goes to show that many field reports and personal recommendations on detectors are based as much as anything on the site as on the detector. The frustrating thing was that I had waited a year for the builders to start work on the site, went on holiday for 2 weeks, came back and half the top soil had gone. A month later I went to a club meeting were 2 members were showing 3 hammered coins they had found in a delivery of top soil, yes, it was from my site, and they only had 2 ton of it. Title: Re: Do you remember your first hammered coin you found? Post by: Sexy Legs (Leighton) on December 23, 2009, 11:05:37 PM Oh, I would love to find such a thing.
Title: Re: Do you remember your first hammered coin you found? Post by: Terry on December 23, 2009, 11:10:06 PM cheers neil it was a liz 1d on my first rally with DW. ONLY FOUND 2 SINCE
Kiwi Terry Title: Re: Do you remember your first hammered coin you found? Post by: The Doc on December 24, 2009, 12:22:13 AM No fairytale amazing coin for my first, but here it is, a Lizzie threepence, very worn and battered but I was chuffed to bits about getting something so old. It was found on Cardiff Scan Club land after I'd been detecting for about five months, with my White's Classic III. Picture shows the reverse, unfortunately the head side is completely gone.
Title: Re: Do you remember your first hammered coin you found? Post by: 150aceboy on December 24, 2009, 12:31:58 AM Have'nt found one yet Neil :'(
Ace ;) Title: Re: Do you remember your first hammered coin you found? Post by: betel23 on December 24, 2009, 12:36:20 AM You and the Doc will find one soon Paul.
He who waits grows old anyway lol Title: Re: Do you remember your first hammered coin you found? Post by: silky on December 24, 2009, 02:33:51 PM here is my first hammy double patard of charles the bold duke of brabant 1467 -77 mint : flanders found with garrett ace 250
Title: Re: Do you remember your first hammered coin you found? Post by: shunggav on December 24, 2009, 04:03:29 PM my first hammy was james 1 shilling cut to hell but enought make me have a smile on my face all day
Title: Re: Do you remember your first hammered coin you found? Post by: Mark on December 24, 2009, 05:59:59 PM My first (and my brothers too) was a Charles I shilling. We both chipped in to buy a Viking VK10 when we first started so guess it was both our first hammered.
Title: Re: Do you remember your first hammered coin you found? Post by: Mark on December 24, 2009, 06:00:36 PM Other side
Title: Re: Do you remember your first hammered coin you found? Post by: handyman [Alan} on December 26, 2009, 05:41:06 AM here is a real beauty found by a good detecting buddy of mine, it was his first hammered and it came out of the ground like that!
enjoy the detail Title: Re: Do you remember your first hammered coin you found? Post by: Legacy Hunter on December 26, 2009, 11:18:21 AM that is a nice clean detailed one well done
debs Title: Re: Do you remember your first hammered coin you found? Post by: simon c on December 26, 2009, 03:03:25 PM Ellizabeth 1st sixpence,still one of the best conditioned hammereds i've found.
Title: Re: Do you remember your first hammered coin you found? Post by: Legacy Hunter on December 26, 2009, 03:22:52 PM thats a nice one cant wait to find my first one
debs Title: Re: Do you remember your first hammered coin you found? Post by: Nick on December 26, 2009, 08:31:11 PM Mrs. Nick was there when I found it. She said my face went white. Par for the course I think !
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