Large Hammered Silver...Now straightened!

[shaun7]

Hammered picked me up this morning and we went to a farm I was doing earlier on in the year. For the first hour or so I thought it was going to be a repeat of last week with Cru

I moved into another field and my first signal was a Lizzy Sixpence 1561. My first big hammered coin

Not too many other finds, but a big surprise when I dug half of a Roman coin. This would have been even bigger than the Sixpence

 

[shaun7]

Re: Large Hammered Silver

Hi Shaun, very nice silver, and that from the hard stubble. We had also a few good lands with stubble, it was hard but still got some nice stuff from them. Seems like much of the plowing was late this year due to the intense rains the past months.

Thanks Woody, yes the stubble was tough and long I think that's why there were so few smaller finds. Ian got a small hammered, but he had the larger coil. I'm thinking of getting one myself


Pepperj, I have a neighbour who's a jeweller! I'm going to go and ask him if he could do it. The phone book's a goo idea
though

A £200+ coin...be carefull :P

SS

Do you know what the Spink number is

 

[Silver Searcher]

Re: Large Hammered Silver

Hi Shaun, very nice silver, and that from the hard stubble. We had also a few good lands with stubble, it was hard but still got some nice stuff from them. Seems like much of the plowing was late this year due to the intense rains the past months.

Thanks Woody, yes the stubble was tough and long I think that's why there were so few smaller finds. Ian got a small hammered, but he had the larger coil. I'm thinking of getting one myself


Pepperj, I have a neighbour who's a jeweller! I'm going to go and ask him if he could do it. The phone book's a goo idea
though

A £200+ coin...be carefull :P

SS

Do you know what the Spink number is

What's the Mint Mark?...and the Dia....

SS

 

[shaun7]

Re: Large Hammered Silver

Hi Shaun, very nice silver, and that from the hard stubble. We had also a few good lands with stubble, it was hard but still got some nice stuff from them. Seems like much of the plowing was late this year due to the intense rains the past months.

Thanks Woody, yes the stubble was tough and long I think that's why there were so few smaller finds. Ian got a small hammered, but he had the larger coil. I'm thinking of getting one myself


Pepperj, I have a neighbour who's a jeweller! I'm going to go and ask him if he could do it. The phone book's a goo idea
though

A £200+ coin...be carefull :P

SS

Do you know what the Spink number is

What's the Mint Mark?...and the Dia....

SS

I think the mint mark is Pheon? And it's 27-28mm

 

[Silver Searcher]

Re: Large Hammered Silver



It looks like 2559.....Rose and Date, large flan inner bearded circle..19mm bust 3D with hair swept back.

F...£125..

VF.£475..

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[woody50]

Re: Large Hammered Silver

Hi Shaun, very nice silver, and that from the hard stubble. We had also a few good lands with stubble, it was hard but still got some nice stuff from them. Seems like much of the plowing was late this year due to the intense rains the past months.

Thanks Woody, yes the stubble was tough and long I think that's why there were so few smaller finds. Ian got a small hammered, but he had the larger coil. I'm thinking of getting one myself
Pepperj, I have a neighbour who's a jeweller! I'm going to go and ask him if he could do it. The phone book's a goo idea
though

Sorry for being dense Shaun, but what does a telephone book have to do with a large silver coin?

I believe Pepperj was joking about straightening it between two heavy books. Of course, I would never do it

Well we do it quite often, but not between phone books, but between two boards of soft wood. The thing to be sure of is the amount of silver in the coin. Every king could choose how much silver and copper/or other metal he wanted in his coins. As a rule the early coins had the most silver, although there are exceptions. Check that first before you do anything.

 

[shaun7]

Re: Large Hammered Silver

Hi Shaun, very nice silver, and that from the hard stubble. We had also a few good lands with stubble, it was hard but still got some nice stuff from them. Seems like much of the plowing was late this year due to the intense rains the past months.

Thanks Woody, yes the stubble was tough and long I think that's why there were so few smaller finds. Ian got a small hammered, but he had the larger coil. I'm thinking of getting one myself
Pepperj, I have a neighbour who's a jeweller! I'm going to go and ask him if he could do it. The phone book's a goo idea
though

Sorry for being dense Shaun, but what does a telephone book have to do with a large silver coin?

I believe Pepperj was joking about straightening it between two heavy books. Of course, I would never do it

Well we do it quite often, but not between phone books, but between two boards of soft wood. The thing to be sure of is the amount of silver in the coin. Every king could choose how much silver and copper/or other metal he wanted in his coins. As a rule the early coins had the most silver, although there are exceptions. Check that first before you do anything.

Thanks Earl, but I really haven't got the nerve to do it anyway

It's my favourite one

 

[Silver Searcher]

Re: Large Hammered Silver

Hi Shaun, very nice silver, and that from the hard stubble. We had also a few good lands with stubble, it was hard but still got some nice stuff from them. Seems like much of the plowing was late this year due to the intense rains the past months.

Thanks Woody, yes the stubble was tough and long I think that's why there were so few smaller finds. Ian got a small hammered, but he had the larger coil. I'm thinking of getting one myself
Pepperj, I have a neighbour who's a jeweller! I'm going to go and ask him if he could do it. The phone book's a goo idea
though

Sorry for being dense Shaun, but what does a telephone book have to do with a large silver coin?

I believe Pepperj was joking about straightening it between two heavy books. Of course, I would never do it

Well we do it quite often, but not between phone books, but between two boards of soft wood. The thing to be sure of is the amount of silver in the coin. Every king could choose how much silver and copper/or other metal he wanted in his coins. As a rule the early coins had the most silver, although there are exceptions. Check that first before you do anything.

Thanks Earl, but I really haven't got the nerve to do it anyway

It's my favourite one

Trying to straighten it with out annealing first...would be disastrous

SS

 

[Bill D. (VA)]

Straightening your coin

I used the hot oil method a couple years ago to straighten 3-4 hammered sixpences. Heat some cooking oil in a pan and drop the coin in for a couple minutes to get it good and hot. Then pull it out with tweezers and quickly roll it with a wooden rolling pin, or use a rubber mallet to pound it into shape. Worked great for me. Let us see some pics after your done. Very nice find BTW! Bill

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

Re: Large Hammered Silver

Nice piece of silver !!

Keep @ It and HH !!

 

[Silver Searcher]

Re: Straightening your coin

I used the hot oil method a couple years ago to straighten 3-4 hammered sixpences. Heat some cooking oil in a pan and drop the coin in for a couple minutes to get it good and hot. Then pull it out with tweezers and quickly roll it with a wooden rolling pin, or use a rubber mallet to pound it into shape. Worked great for me. Let us see some pics after your done. Very nice find BTW! Bill

Or just use a blow torch and 14lb hammer

SS

 

[shaun7]

Re: Straightening your coin

I used the hot oil method a couple years ago to straighten 3-4 hammered sixpences. Heat some cooking oil in a pan and drop the coin in for a couple minutes to get it good and hot. Then pull it out with tweezers and quickly roll it with a wooden rolling pin, or use a rubber mallet to pound it into shape. Worked great for me. Let us see some pics after your done. Very nice find BTW! Bill

Thanks Bill, I like the oil idea! Not so much the mallet

I won't be practising on this one though

 

[woody50]

Re: Large Hammered Silver

Thanks Woody, yes the stubble was tough and long I think that's why there were so few smaller finds. Ian got a small hammered, but he had the larger coil. I'm thinking of getting one myself
Pepperj, I have a neighbour who's a jeweller! I'm going to go and ask him if he could do it. The phone book's a goo idea
though

Sorry for being dense Shaun, but what does a telephone book have to do with a large silver coin?

I believe Pepperj was joking about straightening it between two heavy books. Of course, I would never do it

Really I wasn't joking Shaun. I've done that in the past place the coin half way through the book and give it a good smash. The paper protects the coin from the impact of the hammer, the coin straightens. ( Try it on a greenie)

What I would do Shaun is the following. Find a old coin that is all worn down and bent. Like a love token. Then use the heating method that Bill told us about (I have used that too, oil gets warmer than water) and the telephone books that you mentioned. Then heat it up, put it between and slam it with a hammer. Don't think that the professional guys do not use this! Try it. Of course the 6 pence coins don't have a high silver content such as hammered coins have so it could be a less of a good result. But just try it once and you will see.

 

[Silver Searcher]

Re: Large Hammered Silver



If you want to ruin that coin shaun then follow the bad advice given above

SS

 

[woody50]

Re: Large Hammered Silver

If you want to ruin that coin shaun then follow the bad advice given above
SS

Its not bad advice at all, I was just saying to try it on a old worthless coin and see for yourself what happens. In fact I have not given any advice at all, just repeating what others had said before me and not to listen to everyone but just make a test and figure it out yourself, and that with a coin that has totally no value (only silver value). And saying that I don't trust "professionals", because I know a few and how some of them do things.

 

[treashunt]

Re: Large Hammered Silver



Very cool!

 

[DavidBeard]

Re: Large Hammered Silver

Great find Shaun Well done - may there be many more!
Best wishes from 'rainy, wet' Derbyshire.

 

[Silver Searcher]

Re: Large Hammered Silver

If you want to ruin that coin shaun then follow the bad advice given above
SS

Its not bad advice at all, I was just saying to try it on a old worthless coin and see for yourself what happens. In fact I have not given any advice at all, just repeating what others had said before me and not to listen to everyone but just make a test and figure it out yourself, and that with a coin that has totally no value (only silver value). And saying that I don't trust "professionals", because I know a few and how some of them do things.

It wasn't aimed at you Earl but there is a lot of advice how to straighten this coin, most of it Shock treatment, which you can not do with a Hammered coin.
What might work on a old coin, does'nt mean that it would work on this coin, it took me over 2 hours to straighten this coin, and it had a crack and was completly folded over

SS

 

[shaun7]

Re: Large Hammered Silver

Thanks for all the advice and reply's

 

[CRUSADER]

Re: Large Hammered Silver

Well I liked the sound of both methods, so I heated it in oil & suck it in my yellow pages & hammered it.

Notice I got one that was already stressed & I think it got no worse, you decide

However, the bend is in the wrong place on yours to try this.

 

[shaun7]

Re: Large Hammered Silver

Well I liked the sound of both methods, so I heated it in oil & suck it in my yellow pages & hammered it.

Notice I got one that was already stressed & I think it got no worse, you decide

However, the bend is in the wrong place on yours to try this.

Yeah, it goes to far over and would double in on itself