Farm House Garden & Roman Site...

[CRUSADER]

Started the day in the back garden of an old farm house. My hunch that it would produce some old finds was way off. At one point I thought I had been teleported to a US State Park, with US coins out numbering UK. I had a small spill of 1 Qter, 2 X 5 Cents Crud'Dad did get our largest Lead Weight, not sure on age but looks 200+ (2 Hours)
We then moved to a field that used to be ploughed & now is sown with grass & had been recently cut for Hay. To our surprise the grass was already 4 inches tall & we nearly turned the car around to try elsewhere. Glad we didn't as we had a great result for only 1hr 45mins:

9 Roman Coins (equally last months total in less than 2 hrs)
Constantius I AE follis. DIVO CONSTANTIO PIO / MEMORIA FELIX London Mint (a nice album coin we need & a hard to get Emporer for us)
Belt Mount
Lead Token
Tudor Button

Very happy with this result in June!

 

[Taranis]

MEMORIA FELIX Lugdunum mint...
Very very nice! Congrat Cru!

 

[CRUSADER]

MEMORIA FELIX Lugdunum mint...
Very very nice! Congrat Cru!

Thanks, we thought we had cleared the site last year. Its not a great site, only about 30-40 coins & no silver, but it just proves that we miss stuff as well as anyone.

 

[Westfront]

Bautiful Follis! Amazing amount of US coins. How old? The weight is a good one for the lead crate! Well done!

 

[Taranis]

I like the much small one better, than to fetch a silver a lot.

 

[CRUSADER]

Bautiful Follis! Amazing amount of US coins. How old? The weight is a good one for the lead crate! Well done!

1980s - I hoped for a silver

 

[ticm]

Hey how did you find those pesky ole us coins.

 

[CRUSADER]

Hey how did you find those pesky ole us coins.

Well it wasn't teleportation like I first thought, but probably a kid playing with useless foriegn holiday change.

 

[szasza85]

Nice constantinus
AVE Rome

 

[ticm]

Well it wasn't teleportation like I first thought, but probably a kid playing with useless foriegn holiday change.

LOL

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

Sweet Roman, love the fact that not all crappy zincs stay in our country. That's 6 less that I have to dig.
Carl

 

[CRUSADER]

Sweet Roman, love the fact that not all crappy zincs stay in our country. That's 6 less that I have to dig.
Carl

I know, I was hoping for a Wheatie

 

[Westfront]

Well it wasn't teleportation like I first thought, but probably a kid playing with useless foriegn holiday change.

My first thought was that the coins where somewhat WWII related, a chance for getting silver from that place.... Years ago i found a wallet and a coat in a trench with some change and a pic in it. But not able to track down the owner...think he died there....

 

[leprechaun]

Thats an awesome coin for sure crusader,and an interesting weight.Great hunt.

 

[HISPAN]

Nice Constantius Follis !!!

 

[BuckleBoy]

Beautiful Roman.

 

[Talon]

What is the coin looking thing in picture number 6 with a grid like or waffle pattern to it?

 

[K Zack]

Very nice day, I just could not imagine finding a coin that old.
Thank you for sharing.
Kevin

 

[CRUSADER]

What is the coin looking thing in picture number 6 with a grid like or waffle pattern to it?

Thats the Lead Token, it has a simple geometric flower on the reverse. These are extremely difficult to date, as they were made for hundreds of years & had lots of difference uses when there were shortages of small change (which was fairly constant). This I think would be circa 17th C.

 

[oldsoapy]

Well it wasn't teleportation like I first thought, but probably a kid playing with useless foriegn holiday change.

Think you are right about the kids theory. Any kid with a coin he can't spend will almost certainly loose it! Hutch.