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Title: small coin id? Post by: nick69 on May 02, 2012, 09:40:24 PM Hi, had a quick hour or two on a field that Charlieboy and myself thought we had done to death, but it keeps throwing coins at us especially with our new sovereignGT's.
Among the usual pennies and half pennies, I had a 1941 shilling, 1933 half crown,nice silver chain and this which is rather intriguing. ??? Its quite thin, oddly shaped and slightly smaller than a modern 5p. The reverse side has nothing viewable. Sure someone can tell me exactlly what it is. Cheers Nick Title: Re: small coin id? Post by: legio11augustus on May 02, 2012, 10:24:26 PM looks roman to me
Title: Re: small coin id? Post by: sugar on May 03, 2012, 12:45:43 PM the only person i can come up with AT THE MOMENT is JUSTIINIAN 1 with an obverse legend DNIVSTINIANVSPPAVG could be a nummis
still looking around babysitting so not much time to look around grrrrrrrrrrrr Title: Re: small coin id? Post by: nick69 on May 03, 2012, 02:08:02 PM Hi, I am quite chuffed that it could be Roman. It was such an insignificant piece of metal that came came out of the hole I could have so easily scrapped it into my junk pocket and binned it once home. :o
It still doesn't look much in my hand now its so small, much better in the photo with a bit of directional lighting. ;D Cheers Nick Title: Re: small coin id? Post by: nick69 on May 09, 2012, 05:48:44 PM Hi, sorry to bring this one up again but I am emailing pics and find details to my 'not so' local FLO and thought I'd include this if I can get some more detail about it.
Cheers Nick Title: Re: small coin id? Post by: Techony on May 09, 2012, 06:17:43 PM Hi Nick,
Sorry I can't help you with the id. However, please send this one and any others through to your FLO no matter how little information you may or may not already know about it. Sam Moorhead of the British museum has specifically requested that metal detectorists send in their Grots,, no matter how grotty, for recording. The PAS will, with his and many other experts help,identify them for us and record them accordingly. |