Could it be ! Update/ Possibly A Roman Scrappy ? Yep Roman !
I stoped at one of my oldest sites today after work ! It was right on the way home . I have poped a few nice dandy buttons and a fair amount of lead and a broken colonial buckle from this site in the past.The one and only good coin from this place was an 1866 two cent piece the first time I hunted it ! It has been pounded to death as it is public land on a major river dumping into casco bay .First settled in 1632. I had a little hot spot that got overlooked that I wanted to run the Minelab over. . I was there for an hour and a half and made 5 finds . a small cufflink piece, then I zeroed in on a flat button ,then a .58 round ball, next I dug a small furniture eschtchion piece 9 inches down . 2 feet from this I get another small but positive signal and pop a funny looking copper out about the same depth as the furniture piece . On one side I can only see a raised rounded shield 19 mm high with a few letters above the shield . The other side is badly pitted toast . The coin is not round . It is 26.97 mm in diameter at its widest point and 24.67 mm at its narrowest point . 1.75mm at it's thickest point and 1.09mm at its thinest point ! Weighing in at 5.6 grams . In the picsx if I get the lighting just right for you to see the raised shield it is hard to see the writing and vice versa . I made and etching and outlined the raised shield and what the lettering looks like to me with a mag glass . Though the a could be an R. It looks like a P directly above the shield with an S in front of it ! Or am I just seeing things . What do you think
'No good comes from thinking about how much time we waste detecting, as wasted time is good soul time' - me 25/06/08
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Don't quite know how to reply to it being possably A roman coin But I can live with unknown Roman coin what do you believe is the best means to get it authenticated ?? I saw the profile you are all referring to from the beginning yet didn't believe my own eyes ! Thanks for the replies ! I will change my post to possible unknown roman coin ! M.R.
Don't quite know how to reply to it being possably A roman coin But I can live with unknown Roman coin what do you believe is the best means to get it authenticated ?? I saw the profile you are all referring to from the beginning yet didn't believe my own eyes ! Thanks for the replies ! I will change my post to possible unknown roman coin ! M.R.
(I thought it looked to be a 1st C AD As or dupondus)
Here are my Dad's thoughts, which agree & gives a 'best guess': 'Vespasian AS and as it has a bust left with all the other types of Roman coin features probably about 71-74 AD.'
If not the above, you can be sure its a early Roman Coin
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'No good comes from thinking about how much time we waste detecting, as wasted time is good soul time' - me 25/06/08
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A real man thinks about detecting every 6 seconds
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