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Well after a surprising email from a landowner inviting us to detect his fields, 4 of us set off to the east of the county. After exchanging pleasantries, We hit the first of several fields and it wasn't long before techony, [the hammered magnet] came up trumps again with a little beautie of a find and a nice crotal bell to boot. [I'm sure he'll be along later with the piccies and the very nice surprise as well.

In the meantime, diggerdave with a novice in tow, returned to the farm and quickly was asked to search the fields right next to the church. This proved to be a very productive coin shooting exercise, with everyone finding finds. I've never done so much digging in one afternoon. We certainly created a lot of local interest with someone from Seattle stopping to ask what we had found, several of the local villagers came round to see what was coming up. One lovely old dear, made a very determined effort to walk [with stick], down to see us and was well pleased that she had done so.

I had several coins from one hole, all decimal currency, a nice buckle and nine pence farthing. Novice found the penknife and toy gun part, plus a few other early 20th century pennies, threepences etc. Diggerdave, retired hurt and got stuck in a local traffic jam for half an hour, on his way home and Techony found a nice button ....... and i'll leave him tell you the rest of todays exciting day out

enjoy

Now diggerdave has just sent me these 3 piccies. Quite an interesting 'cap' object, with a nice pattern on it. Any idea what it could be?

his coinage totalled 1d  ;D ;D


now we await 'the hammered' magnets report..................

WELLDONE ALAN GREAT FINDS MUCKER  ;D

alan well done looks like you all had a good day out.viv

Well done you lot. Looks like you all had a good day. Better finding modern than nothing (except for Techony) give him the lemon prize.

The thingy looks like the top off a honey pot or similar.

Val

Thanks for the comments .... and ideas on the mystery lid. Thanks for the idea val, could it be the top of a condiment pot/ mustard pot

or something similar?

Nice going Alan, I would agree with your id of it being the top of a mustard pot ;)

Looks a bit too big for mustard and I was just eating a slice of bread and honey so it seemed to fit the bill.

They did have them for honey, jam, preserves ect. a little bigger than condements.

Val

Here's an example Alan. A bit more modern but similar..

   http://www.antiques-atlas.com/antique/antique_silver__glass_jam_or_honey_pot/as142a295 (http://www.antiques-atlas.com/antique/antique_silver__glass_jam_or_honey_pot/as142a295)


Val

I think it's too small for honey :D It's not even twice the size of an old penny and the spoon recess looks too small for a honey spoon/dipper and definitely too small for a jam spoon ???

Thanks for the comments guys n gals, much appreciated.

Now my good buddy techony sent me his piccies of the finds, so sit back and enjoy

and to follow up on the henry, he got a nice half crown of Willy 4 ...and last but not least, a real beauty of a coin.

Wow, that last coin is a stunner!! :)

like the sherriffs badge and the gun ;D

Wow good day Alan. That Bill and Mary is the best coin I have seen this year. Cracking Early Milled.

well done Alan. That William & mary is in fabulous condition and possibly worth quite a bit of money. I believe they were only struck in copper for two years 1692-  1694 the year they got married as Mary died the following year.

The copper coins were poorly struck and good examples are uncommon.They were also made with  Tin  too which are even more valuable!
I have seen 2x for sale on ebay recently .one for £300 and the other for £1500 !
Chard are looking for examples to buy
http://www.24carat.co.uk/frame.php?url=britannia4.html (http://www.24carat.co.uk/frame.php?url=britannia4.html)

Co-incidentally I found one in my garden last week but its in poor condition.
http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/SE/SE3452.html (http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/SE/SE3452.html)
http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=117054 (http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=117054)

 ??? What book are you reading Nick. :D
They were married for 17 years! The 2d was minted for 5 years (1689-94) and never as far as I know in tin, that was purely used for halfpennies and farthings ;)

Thanks for comments guys, we've returned the william & mary coin to the landowner for their enjoyment.

Apologies everyone I thought the last coin was a farthing the same as mine ?I was obviously not paying attention as usual. ::)

 Prior to 1692 half pennies and farthings were all struck in tin as I'm sure you are aware cheffy.

 Copper coinage was apparently  introduced in 1992 .  Mary died in 1694

I did make a typo about her marriage ...agreed. :-[ :-[ :-[..what  I intended to say  was that the copper coinage only lasted for 2x years of her reign ie 1692-1694  which is why they are scarce and valuable.

You're getting a bit testy in your dotage arn't you Geoffrey  ;D ;D ;D ;D

Sorry Nick lol. Problem is that newbies tend to believe what they read on the internet as we all do, so better to put things right from the beginning ;)
Yes those blinking tin things, found quite a few over the years but never one that you could truly read, as the chemicals really do have their wicked way with them, here's a couple of recent "bits".
(http://i693.photobucket.com/albums/vv294/Chef_02/Sun170411008.jpg)