Benjamin52
Sr. Member
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These objects have been donated to the Transylvanian History Museum in Cluj -
Hi Tnetters,
What ya all up to ya dirt digging Bast**ds
Been a while because of winter.
Lets not waste time.
Weather got better, forest hunt.
Lets go from interesting to more interesting (my personal criteria), in order:
1. Roman Bronze and iron key. A pretty common artifact as I was told in the museum, but I find it cool that 2000 years ago they actually had lock mechanisms with fitting keys.
Bottom part is Iron, handle is Bronze, nice patina:
2. Bronze age axe head. (bronze) Unfortunately the attachment/ connector is missing from the back, so this is the shaft and blade basically.
My guess is that because the fragmentation edge has patina also, the object was broken either by use or ritually, to render it useless for the mortal and to be sacrificed to earth gods for good luck, etc. So broken back then, not during excavation.
Cool to find a tool/weapon that is around 3000 years old. Always a special moment for me, also because these bronze age axes are basically among the oldest objects of human history a metal detectorist can find:
3. Illyrian Dyrrhachion, (Drachma) of Meniekoe, from 229-30 B.C. Possible contemporary Dacian imitation.
A common coin of the Greek era which was often traded in the periphery and used as precursor for designs of Celtic, Dacian, Thracian coins.
This is likely to be a Dacian/Thracian imitation based on the silver quality, design irregularities and geographical context.
Weight is also 2.5g instead of the normal 3.1+g that were normal for genuine Greek coins:
Reference:
https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/dt...rachm_ca_22930_bc_silver/1005189/Default.aspx
For me its still a cool piece of history that shows the variety of coinage and how humans adapted, copied and replicated coinage.
Imitations like these are sometimes considered more rare, for me personally I would prefer to have a nice heavy and smooth shiny original with better silver quality, but hey, I'm not gonna bit*h around when I find ancient silver.
Thanks for lookin, keep pluggin away.
These objects have been donated to the Transylvanian History Museum in Cluj -
Hi Tnetters,
What ya all up to ya dirt digging Bast**ds
Been a while because of winter.
Lets not waste time.
Weather got better, forest hunt.
Lets go from interesting to more interesting (my personal criteria), in order:
1. Roman Bronze and iron key. A pretty common artifact as I was told in the museum, but I find it cool that 2000 years ago they actually had lock mechanisms with fitting keys.
Bottom part is Iron, handle is Bronze, nice patina:
2. Bronze age axe head. (bronze) Unfortunately the attachment/ connector is missing from the back, so this is the shaft and blade basically.
My guess is that because the fragmentation edge has patina also, the object was broken either by use or ritually, to render it useless for the mortal and to be sacrificed to earth gods for good luck, etc. So broken back then, not during excavation.
Cool to find a tool/weapon that is around 3000 years old. Always a special moment for me, also because these bronze age axes are basically among the oldest objects of human history a metal detectorist can find:
3. Illyrian Dyrrhachion, (Drachma) of Meniekoe, from 229-30 B.C. Possible contemporary Dacian imitation.
A common coin of the Greek era which was often traded in the periphery and used as precursor for designs of Celtic, Dacian, Thracian coins.
This is likely to be a Dacian/Thracian imitation based on the silver quality, design irregularities and geographical context.
Weight is also 2.5g instead of the normal 3.1+g that were normal for genuine Greek coins:
Reference:
https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/dt...rachm_ca_22930_bc_silver/1005189/Default.aspx
For me its still a cool piece of history that shows the variety of coinage and how humans adapted, copied and replicated coinage.
Imitations like these are sometimes considered more rare, for me personally I would prefer to have a nice heavy and smooth shiny original with better silver quality, but hey, I'm not gonna bit*h around when I find ancient silver.
Thanks for lookin, keep pluggin away.
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