English, Scottish and French finds.

[robfinds]

Detected today between two villages fairly close to home. The finds were a fairly mixed bunch. The site tends to produce plenty of 17th century material, and today was no different. The copper coins are top centre, what I think is a 17th century Scottish copper coin, bottom left a farthing of Charles II , and bottom right, a copper farthing of James I. The broken silver coin, looks like a penny of Edward III, 1327-77. The button is French, the loop on the back is a bird cage type, it probably dates to the Napoleonic era. This area does curiously, produce these French buttons from time to time. Robert.

 

[Westfront]

French buttons in UK? Wonder how they got there. Looks like a high dome button with birdcage what dates it somewhere between 1804 and 1844.

 

[robfinds]

French buttons in UK? Wonder how they got there. Looks like a high dome button with birdcage what dates it somewhere between 1804 and 1844.

Hello Westfront, nice to hear from you, hope you are well. I've had a few French buttons in this area, over the years. I think they are either soveniers , taken by British troops from the French after battles . Or maybe from French prisoners of war. The French prisoners in England would have been put to work in the fields. Robert.

 

[Scrappy]

Very nice smorgasbord of copper. Sounds like that village was well traveled.

Great finds Rob

 

[pepperj]

Nice results for a hunt Rob, liking the coppers and button. Too bad the Hammie was broken, best of luck on the next outing.

 

[against the wind]

Very nice assortment of finds.
Congratulations

 

[Mackaydon]

If you can post a pic of the reverse side of the Scottish coin, I may be able to help you with its ID.
Then again, you may have already ID-ed it.
Don......

 

[CRUSADER]

If you can post a pic of the reverse side of the Scottish coin, I may be able to help you with its ID.
Then again, you may have already ID-ed it.
Don......

Charles I ‘Turner’ Twopence 011197

It might be a Scottish Turner??

The link is not the right obverse legend, just representative.
Rob's is [C]AR D G SCOT etc...

 

[robfinds]

If you can post a pic of the reverse side of the Scottish coin, I may be able to help you with its ID.
Then again, you may have already ID-ed it.
Don......

Hello Don, Cru's done it. Here's a picture of the other side anyway. Robert.

 

[robfinds]

Charles I ‘Turner’ Twopence 011197

It might be a Scottish Turner??

The link is not the right obverse legend, just representative.
Rob's is [C]AR D G SCOT etc...

Nice one Cru. This area turns up a lot of 17th century finds.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Very nice hunt, congratulations!

 

[Mackaydon]

robfinds,
Yes, Cru's ID seems spot on. The complete legend would read CAR DG SCOT ANG FRA ET HIB R.
There were three different reverses of this coin; all had to do with the spelling of one word: LACESSET, or LACESSIT, or LACESST
Don.....

 

[robfinds]

robfinds,
Yes, Cru's ID seems spot on. The complete legend would read CAR DG SCOT ANG FRA ET HIB R.
There were three different reverses of this coin; all had to do with the spelling of one word: LACESSET, or LACESSIT, or LACESST
Don.....

Cheers Don, We find a lot of Scottish coppers in the North of England. Robert.

 

[CRUSADER]

Nice one Cru. This area turns up a lot of 17th century finds.

Interesting.

We don't get so many Scottish coins down here, but I think I've had about 2 of that type maybe 3.

 

[Mackaydon]

Cru,
If you have 2 or 3 varieties of that coin, you may have one of the fourth variety; showing the (extremely rare) bust of Charles I on the obverse versus what the OP is showing above (noted as Seaby's 5603a--Part 4, First Edition 1972: Coins and Tokens of Scotland).
Don......

 

[CRUSADER]

Cru,
If you have 2 or 3 varieties of that coin, you may have one of the fourth variety; showing the (extremely rare) bust of Charles I on the obverse versus what the OP is showing above (noted as Seaby's 5603a--Part 4, First Edition 1972: Coins and Tokens of Scotland).
Don......

From memory I think mine are the standard type. I wasn't sure if that was a bust or not on Rob's coin. Nice if it is??

 

[sutphin]

FLAMING BOMB < AWESOME FINDS

 

[A2coins]

Amazing finds ... Thanks for the great post!!!!​