Cherry picking - Two Roman Silvers

[Westfront]

I had two sites on hand i wanted to scout today. Both were wheat fields and fresh drilled. I hit the first field with a roman villa site and noticed the whole area had footprints, row by row. Someone waited for drilling like i did and beat me by a couple hours as the soil where he dug was still damp. Whatever, i did the small site crossways to his rows and squeezed out some tiny lead a ringthing and a bronze coin in very good condition. The site is already hunted hard so i decided to move on to a nearby roman farm site.
You know it, same thing, footprints all over, accurate row by row. With only a hour left to spend i did the same like i did on the first site, walked crossways and managed a nice Denarius of Severus Alexander 222 AD and a bronze scrappy.
At home i cleaned the stuff i had in the pouch and the 'nice' Bronze i got on the villa turned out to be a Denarius of Caracalla 207AD. Low grade silver made it look like bronze.

Nails, WWII trash, lead and pottery

Button, ringthing, buckle frag

Coins

And thats how it looked first...

 

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[Mzjavert]

I just love those hammered Roman coins.

 

[david680]

That's pretty good cherry picking right there.

 

[Westfront]

That's pretty good cherry picking right there.

With only three coins found it was a great Bronze to Silver ratio.

 

[Benjamin52]

Amazing condition those silvers!

 

[Westfront]

Amazing condition those silvers!

Jep. And i just wanted to look where we detect next week...

 

[Diggin Dude]

Way to go!!! Well done, congrats and HH

 

[uglymailman]

Another nice round Lu. Were the silver coins deeper? Looks like they missed the fertilizer. Good luck.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Sweet finds, congratulations!

 

[DownNDirty]

Excellent-well done

 

[Stef45]

Wow! How beautiful those coins are! Congrats. Thats a dream find for most of us over here in the states.

 

[Relicific]

Nice Roman coins to say the least.
Congrats

 

[Old Pueblo]

Great coins!

 

[A2coins]

Amazing finds!!!!!

 

[Silver Saver]

Those are some nice looking coins! Nice recoveries!

 

[CRUSADER]

2 Roman Silvers in that condition is a great day, but sounds like you were too slow.
Tinpan asked why we are in a rush & competition is another good reason. Cru'Dad spotted 2 detectorist the other day on one of our shared Roman Sites, only difference was we had already gridded it all.
I think if you had been first we would have a much different post, oh well...

I'm working today but Cru'Dad is scouting & has already spotted that the 'Metal Working Site' has been deep ploughed. Now that is exciting.

 

[trapperart]

Congrats on some nice stuff

 

[Westfront]

Thanks all!

 

[Westfront]

2 Roman Silvers in that condition is a great day, but sounds like you were too slow.
Tinpan asked why we are in a rush & competition is another good reason. Cru'Dad spotted 2 detectorist the other day on one of our shared Roman Sites, only difference was we had already gridded it all.
I think if you had been first we would have a much different post, oh well...

I'm working today but Cru'Dad is scouting & has already spotted that the 'Metal Working Site' has been deep ploughed. Now that is exciting.

You're right, competition is a big issue here. Lots of detectorist in the fields. It's kind of a race sometimes. Results had been better for sure if i had time on saturday.
Good luck with Metal Working Site, i bet there is another stater waiting!

 

[Westfront]

Another nice round Lu. Were the silver coins deeper? Looks like they missed the fertilizer. Good luck.

Just as deep as usual. First cut with the spade got them out. Both had a layer of oxidation on, the Caracalla in a nice green tone like a bronze coin.