This has probably been our best year ever. We have new land for 2008 & I can say now we will be having a prosperous new year (well as soon as the harvest is in Aug). It helped the only holiday I had this year was in a muddy field
1 Celtic Bronze Coin
1 Celtic Silver (pictured)
234 Roman Bronze Coins
8 Roman Silver Coins - including a Julius Caesar 49 BC, earliest coin ever!
39 Medieval Hammered Coins including my first Gold hammered
Spanish copper cob
Bronze age Axe head (pictured)
Viking Strapend (pictured)
Viking Stirrup Mount (pictured)
Saxon chip carved belt mount
First Saxon strap junction
Pictured in no particular order are the highlights of our year:
1 - 1800BC (over 3500 years old) complete Bronze Age Axehead - First bronze age item, although this year we had a further 2 pieces of axehead.
2 - Viking Stirrup Mount (10th century)- My first, our second ever (Dad had a plain one in Aug), rare with less than five recorded of this type. Mine is one of the best examples.
3 - Viking Strapend (11th century) - our first ever
4 - Rare Silver Denarius of Galba AD68-69
5 - Celtic Silver Unit of Cunobelin AD20 - 27th ever recorded
6 - Dutch Gold hammered cica 1351
TOO BUSY TO DETECT, YOU'RE TOO BUSY!!!
'No good comes from thinking about how much time we waste detecting, as wasted time is good soul time' - me 25/06/08
How do you find Gold coins? Reply: 'By finding lots of Silver ones..'
A real man thinks about detecting every 6 seconds
You too, now go out and smash that BDD coppa total.
TOO BUSY TO DETECT, YOU'RE TOO BUSY!!!
'No good comes from thinking about how much time we waste detecting, as wasted time is good soul time' - me 25/06/08
How do you find Gold coins? Reply: 'By finding lots of Silver ones..'
A real man thinks about detecting every 6 seconds
You had an awesome year, great finds! You found a few of my top wish list finds, will be hard to beat. HNY and HH, Mike
Thanks, this obviously hit a few of my top ten wish list. Still looking for that Gold Roman or Celtic coin so still something to aim for in 2008.
TOO BUSY TO DETECT, YOU'RE TOO BUSY!!!
'No good comes from thinking about how much time we waste detecting, as wasted time is good soul time' - me 25/06/08
How do you find Gold coins? Reply: 'By finding lots of Silver ones..'
A real man thinks about detecting every 6 seconds
man if those could only talk. I would just love to know who made and used that axehead. that gold is so intricately designed with the ship,sword,shield and writing it is hard to believe how old it is, not to mention it is in such great condition.
congratulations on such a great year, thank you for sharing, and I hope you have many more.
Crusader, simply awesome dude!!! #4&5 just blows me away. Yes, I like the gold but more impressed by the silver. Just rocks my brain to think about who held them last! High 5 dude!
"27th ever recorded"....I don't know where to begin.Awesome Year Crusader....I could only imagine having the opportunity to do so.Best of Luck in 08' and Happy New Year's!!!!
Well done Crusader and Crusader Dad!
I have learned a lot from reading your post and seeing your photos. Thank you for your help in identifying some of the stuff I found in Europe in 2007. Your finds keep me to returning to England to detect and with the current monetary exchange rate my portfolio manager is working overtime. lol
Happy New Year to you both!
Ron in Georgia
Congratulations...you and the gold guys without a doubt had some amazing finds and top the charts.... Obviously not to many of us can compete with your finds if any...especially in U.S. But I also took a look at the Bulgarians beach finds just posted(gold rings)...and I need to get out again soon... even if I just find clad and a few scrap value silvers....planning on digging more junk signals and run tests with new program...I want to double my gold finds this year...none of the silver coins I found were good enough to make my collection so I gave them to my son to play with and add to his collection... Have a great 08!
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Originally Posted by KirkPA
It was my best year ever too!!
