A day with the Romans

[Silver Searcher]

British summer time arrived with a bang today, warm winds bright sunshine and a freshly rolled Field to detect on (see picture one). This is the Field have been detecting on over the winter it has had sheep on for the past six months but today saw it in perfect condition for detecting, the fist good signal saw a nice pyramid bell pop out in the sandy soil (picture two) Michael my detecting partner had the first of his Roman coins (picture three) then I managed two bronzes in quick succession,( see picture four) about a hour or so went by with just the usual buttons and lead coming out then I had my find of the day a Roman Silver (see picture five) a denarius of Sabina (wife of Hadrian) Rome mint circa AD129 obverce is SABINA AVGVSTA HADRIANAVG PP daiem and draped bust right hair in plait down to neck. reverce is: CONCORDIA AVG. concordia enthroned left holding Patera and resting on statuette of SPES, conrucoiae (horn of plenty) beneath seat.( Thanks to Dug Finds for the ID of the Roman Silver)

 

[folkert]

Due to historical reasons, the coins of Carausius and Allectus are hardly found in the part of Germany, where I live. But I myself find them very interesting!

 

[Silver Searcher]

Due to historical reasons, the coins of Carausius and Allectus are hardly found in the part of Germany, where I live. But I myself find them very interesting!

Hi folkert... do you live any were near Kalkriese.

 

[folkert]

Hi , No I do not live near Kalkriese (it is about 350 kms away from Wiesbaden). But I am very fortunate to live in an area which has produced (and still produces) lots of roman finds (1st BC. to 5th century AD), pre-roman finds and of course finds from the Middle Ages (my favorite finds) to WW II (which I find absolutely boring).

 

[davesx]

Hi tyre.
What a beautiful sight that field is,
I bet you've got years of good detecting ahead.
Those are loverly coins.

dave.

 

[Silver Searcher]

Hi tyre.
What a beautiful sight that field is,
I bet you've got years of good detecting ahead.
Those are loverly coins.

dave.

Hi dave.... we have hit the field all through winter but this is how we found it when we turned up on Sunday morning, got about two weeks left before the crop shows through and the it will have to wait until harvest time. TK

 

[romeo-1]

Outstanding...I love to see the Roman silver!!!

 

[Salvager]

Great coins there! Gee wiz-I can't get over the history over there!

Have fun,
Salvager

 

[aarremaanalla]

Sundays field.jpg,thanks, what a lovely background for my desktop

Amazing coin and those fields are awesome, and you really have something to search.. do you hunt in the woods never or do you always take those fields?

 

[Silver Searcher]

Sundays field.jpg,thanks, what a lovely background for my desktop

Amazing coin and those fields are awesome, and you really have something to search.. do you hunt in the woods never or do you always take those fields?

Hi.... I have never really tried hunting the woods because as you can see by the pictures there's always plenty of fields, but I think I will make more of an effort in future especially as there are some woods very close to were I live. TK

 

[shelltox]

Cool, I never find Roman coins here in Texas

 

[SilverFox167]

Wow that Roman coin cleaned up nice.
Awesome finds!!

 

[Merf]

Fantastik finds T K --Hunting in England would be a blast.

 

[whitesid]

awesome finds

 

[VikingTom]

a truly wonderful find. Silver Roman coins are exceedingly hard to find, not quite as hard to find as gold ones but much harder than people would think. Almost all Roman coins are silver washed bronze coins. They get a small plating layer of molten silver poured over the bronze coin metal. Thsi is done in order to preserve silver which was a precious commodity. Copper and bronze were abundant and using them as a filler extrended the Roman silver reserves to around 30 times what it would have been if they had made pure silver coins and at the same time this process filled the need for silver in the economy. Copper and bronze are more durable metals as well extending the life of the coins.

Your coin is well readable and would be easy to identify within 1 to 2 years of the actual mintage year. You seem to be familiar with Roman coins, so this may be worth you looking up. Attribution is actually quite easy and tends to increase the value quite a bit. I found it to be a lot of fun back when i did it.

Again, a magnificent set of finds. Most of us will never find a single Roman. I had to purchase all my Byzantine Empire ,Roman, Greek and Indo Scythians .I am quite jealous of the excitement and bragging rites you have, and well deserve. Bravo

 

[VikingTom]

you know i noticed something else about this Roman Silver that seems unusual to me. I find that this silver coin has no mint mark from it`s mint. on a coin of this clarity you should be able to see the city of mint and the actual mint (A = Alpha, B = Beta etc.)
I wonder if this was locally minted in England by some Romans.... Just my two dinars worth...

 

[dugupfinds]

you know i noticed something else about this Roman Silver that seems unusual to me. I find that this silver coin has no mint mark from it`s mint. on a coin of this clarity you should be able to see the city of mint and the actual mint (A = Alpha, B = Beta etc.)
I wonder if this was locally minted in England by some Romans.... Just my two dinars worth...

Hi,
It doesn't have a mint because at this time all silver was controlled & minted in Rome, Italy. Also the early Roman silver were solid silver & they only silver washed later coins like antoninanus or debased the silver with other metals.

 

[Silver Searcher]

you know i noticed something else about this Roman Silver that seems unusual to me. I find that this silver coin has no mint mark from it`s mint. on a coin of this clarity you should be able to see the city of mint and the actual mint (A = Alpha, B = Beta etc.)
I wonder if this was locally minted in England by some Romans.... Just my two dinars worth...

Hi,
It doesn't have a mint because at this time all silver was controlled & minted in Rome, Italy. Also the early Roman silver were solid silver & they only silver washed later coins like Antoninus or debased the silver with other metals.

That's true Dug but was'nt it also the reason for washed silver was the amount of foreign campaigns that was ongoing made silver a rare commodity, I think at one time Rome almost becoming bankrupt due to lengthy wars.

 

[pgill]

Very nice finds TK..... does the farmer let you walk through his nicely ploughed field and leave boot prints
I for one would love to see more roman stuff...

God bless
Peter

 

[Silver Searcher]

Very nice finds TK..... does the farmer let you walk through his nicely ploughed field and leave boot prints
I for one would love to see more roman stuff...

God bless
Peter

Hi pgill..... in answer to your question yes they do but normally only till the crops show through