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Title: Tonights finds Post by: benny on August 03, 2011, 09:40:32 PM Went out for a couple of hours tonight,not expecting much,just needed to wind down after spending the day on a roof,but I unearthed half a roman coin(ID please if possible)which is the only roman thing I've found on the farm despite searching it for years.
Later I had a really strange signal,started digging it and thought its probably iron and scraped the soil back in the hole and carried on searching but got a couple of steps and thought to myself I've never found gold with the GMP so I don't know what the signal would sound like and curiousity got the better of me so I went back to it. I dug out a spade full of soil and the strange signal was still there so took another scoop out and scanned it again,it now said it was iron so I scanned the pile of earth next to the hole and the detector squealed! Think its a Mary groat(well,whats left of one anyway)and if it is its the first coin of Mary I've had. What do people think? Title: Re: Tonights finds Post by: Chef Geoff on August 03, 2011, 09:51:12 PM Nice going Benny and what a wind down. The Roman is Antoninus Pius with Victory on the reverse
Title: Re: Tonights finds Post by: Roman (Ray) on August 03, 2011, 09:57:41 PM welldone benny great finds butty.
ray. Title: Re: Tonights finds Post by: benny on August 03, 2011, 09:57:59 PM Nice one cheers Geoff!
Title: Re: Tonights finds Post by: Chef Geoff on August 03, 2011, 10:08:06 PM And it looks like your spot on with the Mary id ;)
Title: Re: Tonights finds Post by: The Doc on August 04, 2011, 12:20:06 AM And it looks like your spot on with the Mary id ;) I agree - Mary groat it is :) Title: Re: Tonights finds Post by: dragonsbreath(Paul) on August 04, 2011, 07:53:14 AM A couple of great finds well done indeed.......PaulB. 8)
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