goldnow
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UPDATE;...Spent one man hour and two dog hours going over and around the area I found the Roman coin two days ago. The chestnut leaves are 4 inches thick, so I'm not getting the depth I would like, but still came up with something interesting only five paces uphill from the Roman coin hole. I have added two more pictures below of the find.
It is bronze, and a rim piece of some sort of vessel or vase. It looks to be, I'm guessing/hoping/praying it also is Roman, as that would lend some good hope to find the "unmentionable" first on anybody's list. It came out of the ground pretty much as you see it, with no crud, decay, or whatever, with a light green patina on the inside side.
Anybody here can identify it?
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Frustrated, as Wifey took the car, I decided to tweek the Tesoro for some deeper hits on my own land that I have done relentlessly since August. Surprisingly, I got a few whatsits, a couple of old coins, and then a crusty unreadable coin, on land I've been over a couple of times.
Dropped the crusty coin into some olive oil, waited, did some thumbnail rubbing, and I think, I hope, I got my oldest coin so far, a Roman. (My oldest to date is a silver circa 1600.) The crusty was only 5" down in undisturbed land.
The first two pics are the coin out of the ground after a light rinse.
The rest of the pics are "afters" in different angles. The back has not been cleaned , but it looks like a man standing with a staff (2nd to last pic).
Not being able to get an ID from the internet, Romans being an endless-never-ending subject, I was hoping someone could help me date and identify this find.
It is bronze, and a rim piece of some sort of vessel or vase. It looks to be, I'm guessing/hoping/praying it also is Roman, as that would lend some good hope to find the "unmentionable" first on anybody's list. It came out of the ground pretty much as you see it, with no crud, decay, or whatever, with a light green patina on the inside side.
Anybody here can identify it?
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Frustrated, as Wifey took the car, I decided to tweek the Tesoro for some deeper hits on my own land that I have done relentlessly since August. Surprisingly, I got a few whatsits, a couple of old coins, and then a crusty unreadable coin, on land I've been over a couple of times.
Dropped the crusty coin into some olive oil, waited, did some thumbnail rubbing, and I think, I hope, I got my oldest coin so far, a Roman. (My oldest to date is a silver circa 1600.) The crusty was only 5" down in undisturbed land.
The first two pics are the coin out of the ground after a light rinse.
The rest of the pics are "afters" in different angles. The back has not been cleaned , but it looks like a man standing with a staff (2nd to last pic).
Not being able to get an ID from the internet, Romans being an endless-never-ending subject, I was hoping someone could help me date and identify this find.
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means the title "augustus" then their name -- think macs got it
