First silver hammered of the year

[hodge]

A spur of the moment decision to get out detecting this morning resulted in a totally unexpected find. I only had the morning free as I'd made a commitment to do one or two jobs at home today. I went to a field that I'd detected on a number of times before, and had found a reasonable number of old coins - including hammered silver coinage of Edward 1st & 2nd. I'd set a deadline of 11:30am at which I'd pack up & get off home to get the jobs done. Only found 4 coins in the 2 1/2 hour session, these were pre-decimal pennies dated to 1875 & 1953, a halfpenny of 1872...and the big one... a Silver Groat of Edward IV, date range of 1464 - 1870. Validated at www.ukdfd.co.uk - (reference 23462)
A very nice coin, and my first silver of any type in 2010.

 

[hodge]

I got the date range wrong... should be 1464 - 1470 (not 1870!!)

 

[CRUSADER]

Might as well start with a bang - a Groat Only have a couple in 20+ years!

You should see our first for the year

http://www.ukdfd.co.uk/ukdfddata/showrecords.php?product=23462&cat=all

 

[Deno]

That is nothing short of amazing. I am so envious of you guys in
these exotic places digging up all this fantastic stuff.

Congratulations you dog. That is just to neat.

 

[Deepdiger60]

That coin is fantastic for something that's around 540 years old a great find for sure and its silver !! Good hunting Jim

 

[Silver Searcher]

Great way to kick off the new year I bet that blew the headphones of

SS

 

[civil war hunter]

That's going to be a Banner!

 

[hodge]

That's going to be a Banner!

That would be great, thanks for the suggestion...
hodge

 

[hammered]

Nice groat hodge . What a great way to start the year.

hammered

 

[shaun7]

Lovely coin

I think I might get one of them on Wednesday and then top it off by winning the lottery

 

[Iron Patch]

Now there's a UK digger that can get it done!

I bet you've dug a few cartwheels in your day as well.

 

[Silver Searcher]

Now there's a UK digger that can get it done!

I bet you've dug a few cartwheels in your day as well.

And it only took 5 minutes

 

[shaun7]

Now there's a UK digger that can get it done!

I bet you've dug a few cartwheels in your day as well.

And it only took 5 minutes

It wasn't that funny SS

 

[umrgolf]

maybe he'll write you a poem too

 

[Iron Patch]

maybe he'll write you a poem too

Don't tempt me, very possible another poetic beatdown could happen!

 

[umrgolf]

maybe he'll write you a poem too

Don't tempt me, very possible another poetic beatdown could happen!

You call that poem a beatdown? im not surprised you have low standards

 

[gold eye]

great looking siler coin now get out and find a gold coin .happy huntng Ron aka gold eye

 

[jdsarasin8194]

Do hammereds have much value?

 

[seger98]

WOW Nice find!

 

[pepperj]

Nice Hammered,
But what's a Cartwheel.