Found in WiLTSHIRE in the U.K.

[dragonsbreath]

Found on a roman site in amongst the roman stuff lol

 

[dragonsbreath]

Also found this

 

[Rob (B.C.)]

Oh man! That Roman silver is nice...great detail!

The clad quarter is a bit of a let down on a field like that...LOL

 

[allen]

i think id rather find one of the roman coins !!
that is a sweet coin !!

 

[shaun7]

Very nice Roman silver

Do you know anything about the coin?

 

[coinmaster2db]

Found on a roman site in amongst the roman stuff lol

While that coin may be somewhat rare in your country, that's a pretty common find over here. (I've always wanted to say that to a digger in the U.K.) Now the second coin, that's another story. AWESOME FIND!!!!!!!

 

[romeo-1]

It's an American Invasion!

 

[CRUSADER]

http://www.quadrigaancients.com/2008/kjun/Elagab31.jpg
ELAGABALUS, 218-222 AD. AR antoninianus of 218 AD
Obv: IMP CAES M AVR ANTONINVS AVG. Radiate, draped bust right.
Rev: FIDES EXERCITVS. Fides seated left, holding eagle and standard, another standard before her

Very nice to get a nice high silver content My kinda coin - Congrats

 

[WilliamBoyd]

Aah, Elagabalus

The Greatest Caesar in the history of Rome.

 

[dragonsbreath]

Thanks guys for the comments i have found about 10 Denarius over

the years but this is my first silver Ant.

And in awesome condition too i am assuming that it may be scarce because

of the condition comments would be welcomed.

had a couple of Constantine bronzes in good condition too plus my first

neolithic flint blade and if you know anything about Celtic "minims" in bronze

i have been told i have found one of these too but its only about 6mm dia

uniface design dots and small hatched area and a mini saucer shape any ideas

Crusader and other U.K. guys

will post but at high resolution you cannot see too much.

 

[Silver Searcher]

Can you show us both sides it could be a Styca

SS

 

[CRUSADER]

Thanks guys for the comments i have found about 10 Denarius over

the years but this is my first silver Ant.

And in awesome condition too i am assuming that it may be scarce because

of the condition comments would be welcomed.

had a couple of Constantine bronzes in good condition too plus my first

neolithic flint blade and if you know anything about Celtic "minims" in bronze

i have been told i have found one of these too but its only about 6mm dia

uniface design dots and small hatched area and a mini saucer shape any ideas

Crusader and other U.K. guys

will post but at high resolution you cannot see too much.

The Ant is in Very Fine+ condition, scarce to find but not scarce in coin collecting terms. Problem is the market is flooded with the nice ones that come from Eastern Europe. Not that it bothers me as a non-seller, the condition is about as good as you could hope for & that is all that matters to me

The minum, hard to tell from photo. The only way to tell them apart from the later Roman Bronzes is that it should be slightly 'dish' shaped, if its flat is Roman.

 

[cedarratt]

Interesting find, I can tell you for sure that it was not left there by a time traveler as the newer coins these days do not hold up well in the Dirt. I was wondering what yall do with all the bronze Roman coins yall find?

 

[dragonsbreath]

Thanks for the replies and Crusader it is uniface only and definately dish shaped cheers PaulB.

 

[CRUSADER]

Thanks for the replies and Crusader it is uniface only and definately dish shaped cheers PaulB.

There's your answer

 

[bigtim1973]

Man that is a very nice Roman coin!!!! I bet that quarter was dropped from one of those guys that go to the UK from here in the USA on one of those metal detecting trips!!! Tim

 

[Hardy]

Pesky Americans