3rd Century Antoniniani Hoard - Roman

[DavidBeard]

Hi All,
I'll keep you posted.
They call it a hoard but its only 3 coins)



All within a few inches of each other so definitely been buried (or lost) together. and all in almost perfect condition - cleaned with a little lemon juice.
3rd century Antoninianus (these replaced the Denarius I think):

Philip I 244 AD


Valerian I 253 AD


and Salonina (Wife of Gallienus) 253 - 268 AD


IT'S OFFICIALLY TREASURE! Now taken off my hands and at the British Museum London - waiting for further news.

Best wishes,
David x

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Congrats on your Roman coin finds David!
The condition of the coins are truly amazing!

Dave

 

[leslie(nova scotia)]

yo D

From the land of the Bluenose......pretty sweet me bouy. have picked up about a dozen Roman on my last 2 trips to your area. Love the Gunniess normal!

 

[Metal Magnet]

wow, the condition on those is amazing.

 

[CMDiamonddawg]

those look great all cleaned up ! well done 8) dawg

 

[hikeinmts]

Yep.....not a hoard,,,,,,but a tremendous find. Great condition for found coins......but being silver it doesn't surprise me.
I have found silver like it was lost last weekend.
Hope you DO find a hoard. Good THing.

 

[JW15]

Wow! Sweet condition on those beauties!

 

[Westfront]

Thats museum quality! Well done! Congrats!

 

[umrgolf]

Wow, another amazing discovery Roman silver coin spill got to be a banner find

 

[DavidBeard]

Re: yo D

From the land of the Bluenose......pretty sweet me bouy. have picked up about a dozen Roman on my last 2 trips to your area. Love the Gunniess normal!

You've been to my area? We don't get many visitors around here, "...its just a local village for local people..." yep, the Guiness is good - pure velvet!

 

[CRUSADER]

Good silver content in them They were starting to debase them quite a bit & the Salonina's we have were not as nice as your example
Nice bunch, in a way we have been lucky that all our finds have been spread out, never had a tight bunch of silver

 

[{Sentinel}]

Terrific post and they're in terrific condition, that's a Banner day in any book there

 

[AGBlex]

did someone put those in plastic wrap a couple thousand years ago? wow nice coins

 

[DavidBeard]

did someone put those in plastic wrap a couple thousand years ago? wow nice coins

Looks like it....
These fields have been used just for pasture grazing for decades, the odd plough coming along every 9 to 15 years for re-seeding the grass. The odd muck-spreader speading a bit of manure now and again, pretty dry too, no chemicals, no intense-farming like on most farms so I'm quite lucky (and grateful) to have been given this to search. The Roman pottery fragments come up pretty clean too!

 

[jewelerguy]

wow those are nice

 

[HuntNdig]

congrats on the sweet finds!

 

[staydetuned]

Beautiful hoard... amazing to think how those three crisp little guys hung out so close to each other for 1800 years. Great work!

 

[DavidBeard]

Beautiful hoard... amazing to think how those three crisp little guys hung out so close to each other for 1800 years. Great work!

Thanks - As mentioned before, the soil here has had very little disturbance over the years. Looking forward to what else will be revealed over the coming years.