My very first hoard

[david995]

if someones garden backs onto the field,  maybe someone from the house just chucked them into the field ?

[Resurgam]

                    Hmmm, or maybe a thief dumped them and made off with the notes and more valuable items. I will knock at one of the houses and make enquiries to see if I can expect to find anything of higher value and return it to them. 

[Val Beechey]

Chris, thinking along those lines, what do most people do with 'small change' from holidays.  Throw it in a drawer and forget it.  Maybe that's where it's come from, possibly when some one has moved house or passed away and the Rellies have cleared stuff out.
Bit of a mystery. Will be interesting to see if anything else turns up.

Val

[Resurgam]

                It is in deed very strange Val! Maybe folks would throw out the foreign coins but I would have thought that they would have kept the decimals and spent them. There was no sign of any box, tin, or package that the coins may have been kept in.

                I have had a number of pieces of copper drive bands off anti-aircraft shells in the same field but as I have said...............all the coins were minted well after the war. Perhaps the answer is going to be very simple explanation? Whilst recently detecting a building project on an old sports ground, I recovered over £30 in decimal coinage as well as plenty of pre-decimals. I also got many coins that were cut, chopped, and hacked. I was only when my wife, Margaret, said "grass mowers" that the little mystery of the cut coins was solved. 

               

[Richie sixpence]

Hi Chris
Congratulations on your first hoard 

Regards Richie sixpence 

[Resurgam]

                       Thanks Richie. Me thinks that there may be even more to come! 

[Dungbeetle]

Chris, myself and Grego went onto a newly cut field a few weeks ago. We both found quite a few Spanish, Greek and Maltese coins just behind a house and presume that they've been thrown out as not spendable now. It doesn't explain the  decimal coins that you found but that is probably why the yankee coins are there.

[probono]

I think I would go for the idea that they were dumped after a burglary or somesuch - when my parents' house was burgled, they took anything in what looked like jewellery boxes - but it was all full of the more special (for us) roman dig finds - so a few bronze buttons and the nicer fragments of drinking vessel glass. I can imagine the whole lot getting dumped somewhere.

Once when I was out walking with my mother, I came across a scatter of cufflinks in an alley - and it's quite possible that they too were from a theft - although it was also possible they were just lobbed over the wall as rubbish (although one was 9ct and one was solid silver).

[Resurgam]

Hi Chris & Probono,
                                 the solution to the puzzle of the coins in the field is still on hold but I am hoping that the farmer will gather in the winter wheat this week and I will be able to extend my search. Will keep you posted of any more finds on this web. 

[Richie sixpence]

                       Thanks Richie. Me thinks that there may be even more to come! 

I'm sure there will be Chris good luck with it my friend and HH 

[Resurgam]

                                I revisited the field on Saturday and went directly to the small area where the coins came from. I must have done a good job of investigating the coin spill; I was unable to find an other single coin in that location.

                                The standing wheat had been harvested in  and all straw removed from the field. Confronted by only stubble, I fanned out from the original small area and swung low and slow as I moved outwards. Not a single coin to be found anywhere within twenty yard of my starting point. Pondering the original find, I contemplated the fact that there had been no coins within two foot or so of the property fence that backed onto my field. Perhaps the coin spill was just about in the are that one would land in if you were to jump down from the fence!

                                 Before leaving for home, I had a quick chat with the house owners adult daughter and she informed me that the house had been burgled several time in the past but I would have to talk with her father to find out any details.

                                 If the burglars had accessed and left the property via the back fence, dropping coins has they left, I wonder if they may have dropped more valuable items on the property side of the fence?