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Title: Tiny hammy for id Post by: david995 on September 15, 2014, 05:53:11 PM Hi , i wonder if someone could please id this tiny hammy for me please ?
Title: Re: Tiny hammy for id Post by: Chef Geoff on September 15, 2014, 06:03:06 PM Another nice find David it's a Scottish James VI (James I) twelve pence (1590's) ;)
Title: Re: Tiny hammy for id Post by: bristolminelab on September 15, 2014, 06:03:54 PM very nice fella
Title: Re: Tiny hammy for id Post by: david995 on September 15, 2014, 06:07:03 PM Thanks geoff, thats a bit of a surprise as the area im detecting was supposed to of been deserted since about 1350 i will see what the historians think of that
Title: Re: Tiny hammy for id Post by: The Doc on September 15, 2014, 06:09:15 PM That's a great little find. I can't say I've seen one of these as a detecting find before :)
Title: Re: Tiny hammy for id Post by: david995 on September 15, 2014, 06:13:08 PM Thanks doc , perhaps its because its so tiny and also thin , a difficult one to detect very faint signal
Title: Re: Tiny hammy for id Post by: probono on September 15, 2014, 10:32:11 PM Nice find.
It also nicely points out what was happening to the Scottish economy in a previous age of independence - essentially Scottish money started out at parity to English money (if you think of the 'sterlings' of say Alexander III) - but by the time of the accession of James the (V)I to the English (and Welsh) throne, it had become debased to 1/12th that of the English money - and then it was pegged at that ratio until just after the Act of Union. Title: Re: Tiny hammy for id Post by: david995 on September 16, 2014, 02:33:05 PM Thank you for the info
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