Cold comfort

[robfinds]

Was very cold this aft. thought my toes and fingers were going to drop off !. These are the finds, a Elizabeth 1 penny, a lead token and a poor condition Roman silver.

HH robert.

 

[shaun7]

Rob, nice finds, the Elizabeth is very good. How many do you find without the portrait! Shaun, hope you understand now about hammered coins, I thought you were an expert in them!

i've only ever found one! 19th century copper is more my field

not forgetting large pieces of iron

 

[robfinds]

Rob, nice finds, the Elizabeth is very good. How many do you find without the portrait! Shaun, hope you understand now about hammered coins, I thought you were an expert in them!

Good question I would say roughly 70% of my lizzie hammered coins have very weak portraits. If I don't go detecting in the morning (party tonight) I will have a look at my collection tomorrow and find out for you.

 

[CRUSADER]

Rob, nice finds, the Elizabeth is very good. How many do you find without the portrait! Shaun, hope you understand now about hammered coins, I thought you were an expert in them!

Good question I would say roughly 70% of my lizzie hammered coins have very weak portraits. If I don't go detecting in the morning (party tonight) I will have a look at my collection tomorrow and find out for you.

I have a party of 1 tonight with my albums, so I had time to check:

20 out of 29 with weak portraits, same coins only had 3 weak shield reverses. (don't include ones I gave the farmers)

I wonder if it had to do with a low relief obverse die & a high relief reverse die, meaning that future wear what readily occur on the portrait side

 

[shaun7]

Rob, nice finds, the Elizabeth is very good. How many do you find without the portrait! Shaun, hope you understand now about hammered coins, I thought you were an expert in them!

Good question I would say roughly 70% of my lizzie hammered coins have very weak portraits. If I don't go detecting in the morning (party tonight) I will have a look at my collection tomorrow and find out for you.

I have a party of 1 tonight with my albums, so I had time to check:

20 out of 29 with weak portraits, same coins only had 3 weak shield reverses. (don't include ones I gave the farmers)

I wonder if it had to do with a low relief obverse die & a high relief reverse die, meaning that future wear what readily occur on the portrait side

where do you get yor albums from? i have to move all my finds from the mantle piece for the xmas decs!
i need one anyway for all my latest additions which i don't keep up there! too worried they'll get knocked off and go up the hoover!

 

[CRUSADER]

Rob, nice finds, the Elizabeth is very good. How many do you find without the portrait! Shaun, hope you understand now about hammered coins, I thought you were an expert in them!

Good question I would say roughly 70% of my lizzie hammered coins have very weak portraits. If I don't go detecting in the morning (party tonight) I will have a look at my collection tomorrow and find out for you.

I have a party of 1 tonight with my albums, so I had time to check:

20 out of 29 with weak portraits, same coins only had 3 weak shield reverses. (don't include ones I gave the farmers)

I wonder if it had to do with a low relief obverse die & a high relief reverse die, meaning that future wear what readily occur on the portrait side

where do you get yor albums from? i have to move all my finds from the mantle piece for the xmas decs!
i need one anyway for all my latest additions which i don't keep up there! too worried they'll get knocked off and go up the hoover!

You better be quick & get them from woolies closing down sale. Make sure you don't get PVC inserts, as they damage the coins. They are cheaper than the velvet trays which I pay £12 a tray (only 40ish hole trays), thats for the nicer coins

 

[shaun7]

Rob, nice finds, the Elizabeth is very good. How many do you find without the portrait! Shaun, hope you understand now about hammered coins, I thought you were an expert in them!

Good question I would say roughly 70% of my lizzie hammered coins have very weak portraits. If I don't go detecting in the morning (party tonight) I will have a look at my collection tomorrow and find out for you.

I have a party of 1 tonight with my albums, so I had time to check:

20 out of 29 with weak portraits, same coins only had 3 weak shield reverses. (don't include ones I gave the farmers)

I wonder if it had to do with a low relief obverse die & a high relief reverse die, meaning that future wear what readily occur on the portrait side

where do you get yor albums from? i have to move all my finds from the mantle piece for the xmas decs!
i need one anyway for all my latest additions which i don't keep up there! too worried they'll get knocked off and go up the hoover!

You better be quick & get them from woolies closing down sale. Make sure you don't get PVC inserts, as they damage the coins. They are cheaper than the velvet trays which I pay £12 a tray (only 40ish hole trays), thats for the nicer coins

they do them in woolies? what do you mean by pvc inserts? i was thinking about a folder with plastic pages containing pockets! do you mean those

 

[CRUSADER]

Rob, nice finds, the Elizabeth is very good. How many do you find without the portrait! Shaun, hope you understand now about hammered coins, I thought you were an expert in them!

Good question I would say roughly 70% of my lizzie hammered coins have very weak portraits. If I don't go detecting in the morning (party tonight) I will have a look at my collection tomorrow and find out for you.

I have a party of 1 tonight with my albums, so I had time to check:

20 out of 29 with weak portraits, same coins only had 3 weak shield reverses. (don't include ones I gave the farmers)

I wonder if it had to do with a low relief obverse die & a high relief reverse die, meaning that future wear what readily occur on the portrait side

where do you get yor albums from? i have to move all my finds from the mantle piece for the xmas decs!
i need one anyway for all my latest additions which i don't keep up there! too worried they'll get knocked off and go up the hoover!

You better be quick & get them from woolies closing down sale. Make sure you don't get PVC inserts, as they damage the coins. They are cheaper than the velvet trays which I pay £12 a tray (only 40ish hole trays), thats for the nicer coins

they do them in woolies? what do you mean by pvc inserts? i was thinking about a folder with plastic pages containing pockets! do you mean those

I think most of them are OK now, but the old style used to react with the coins (damaging them). Worth checking before buying.

 

[shaun7]

Rob, nice finds, the Elizabeth is very good. How many do you find without the portrait! Shaun, hope you understand now about hammered coins, I thought you were an expert in them!

Good question I would say roughly 70% of my lizzie hammered coins have very weak portraits. If I don't go detecting in the morning (party tonight) I will have a look at my collection tomorrow and find out for you.

I have a party of 1 tonight with my albums, so I had time to check:

20 out of 29 with weak portraits, same coins only had 3 weak shield reverses. (don't include ones I gave the farmers)

I wonder if it had to do with a low relief obverse die & a high relief reverse die, meaning that future wear what readily occur on the portrait side

where do you get yor albums from? i have to move all my finds from the mantle piece for the xmas decs!
i need one anyway for all my latest additions which i don't keep up there! too worried they'll get knocked off and go up the hoover!

You better be quick & get them from woolies closing down sale. Make sure you don't get PVC inserts, as they damage the coins. They are cheaper than the velvet trays which I pay £12 a tray (only 40ish hole trays), thats for the nicer coins

they do them in woolies? what do you mean by pvc inserts? i was thinking about a folder with plastic pages containing pockets! do you mean those

I think most of them are OK now, but the old style used to react with the coins (damaging them). Worth checking before buying.

thanks! i thought you mean't scratching

 

[woody50]

Rob, nice finds, the Elizabeth is very good. How many do you find without the portrait! Shaun, hope you understand now about hammered coins, I thought you were an expert in them!

Good question I would say roughly 70% of my lizzie hammered coins have very weak portraits. If I don't go detecting in the morning (party tonight) I will have a look at my collection tomorrow and find out for you.

I have a party of 1 tonight with my albums, so I had time to check:

20 out of 29 with weak portraits, same coins only had 3 weak shield reverses. (don't include ones I gave the farmers)

I wonder if it had to do with a low relief obverse die & a high relief reverse die, meaning that future wear what readily occur on the portrait side

Don't have to wonder, that was the problem with the dies... There are other coins with the same problems. I guess the Celtic guys got it good anyway, if the outside design wore away, there was always the inside design to show which tribe...

 

[phantomfinder]

Very nice , I would love too find coins like that...

 

[MalteseFalcon]

Even poor condition roman silver is still pretty awesome!

I completely agree!