Lower-Middle Section - Day 4..........

[CRUSADER]

The weather was bitterly cold today & the ground which was soft yesterday had frozen solid. By the end of 3.5 hours my hands no longer functioned even with gloves on!

It was well worth getting cold for!

3 hammered - 2 Lizzy Halfgroats & 1 Edward III Halfpenny

Dad got his first Roman Silver of the year -
Julia Domna Denarius AD196 - Minted Laodicea
Reverse type we haven't seen - Diana holding flaming torch

I would have gone home happy with the great conditioned Pewter 18th century button - Queens Own IV Dragoons (one for IP)

7 scrappies
17th Century Token
Nice Late Medieval square coin weight

Great day in freezing weather, look forward to the warmer spell tomorrow with Shaun7 (I hope!)

 

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[Bavaria Mike]

You amaze me with the variety of finds you come up with! Amazes me even more that you rarely pull a nice looking coin missed by the plow and fertilizer. Those fields must have been farmed since day one. Do you ever try forests or stream runs? I do not care to hunt forests but will do it when I have to as we have mostly tall pine trees and no old forests over 80 years old. HH, Mike

 

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[CRUSADER]

Good day again, told you the XPs called the hammered hoover

Well, you say that but is 3 all, so the Cortes is keeping pace (at the moment). But I do expect be the end of the year to out do Dad.

You amaze me with the variety of finds you come up with! Amazes me even more that you rarely pull a nice looking coin missed by the plow and fertilizer. Those fields must have been farmed since day one. Do you ever try forests or stream runs? I do not care to hunt forests but will do it when I have to as we have mostly tall pine trees and no old forests over 80 years old. HH, Mike

No I tried woods & had no success.

 

[crazyjarhead]

I'd say it was worth the cold to haul in treasures like that

 

[woody50]

You amaze me with the variety of finds you come up with! Amazes me even more that you rarely pull a nice looking coin missed by the plow and fertilizer. Those fields must have been farmed since day one. Do you ever try forests or stream runs? I do not care to hunt forests but will do it when I have to as we have mostly tall pine trees and no old forests over 80 years old. HH, Mike

Yes I have noticed that also (rarely find a nice looking coin) and feel for sure the land has been used since the roman times. There were or are many places that were not farmed in the middle ages, the finds there are better it seems.

I have searched woods and streams in England a few times, but since everyone there hunts hunts hunts the woods are full of shells, they drive you crazy. There could be good stuff someplaces but I have not yet found it. The same with streams, never found anything interesting.

 

[woody50]

how would the coin weight have been used? ie: did it weigh single coins or the weight in silver of a few

Hi Shaun, another learning lesson from me...!!!! Hope you had luck with Cru today, wish I was with you guys....

About 98% of coin weights were used to weigh gold coins, as Cru says not only England but Europe and beyond. Only a few silver coin weights were ever made, I guess because of a shortage of gold in those years they made large silver coins, and needed weights to insure they were not clipped too much. Here is a photo of a SILVER coinweight that I found last year, they are massive things! :

 

[woody50]

Hi Cru, nice finds for sure. Wish we could dig here, but its impossible. Hope for next week. I hope you had fun with Shaun today! Funny that you guys are not getting the real freezing weather there, we cannot get into the ground at all...

 

[mlhudson]

YOU GOT MID-EVIL WITH THE DIRT, LOL KEEPA DIGGIN

MLHUDSON

 

[dneyedli@res1.mts.net]

Excellent finds! Crusader, I got a question for you. What do you call those pieces of brass that have WR (crown) PATENT? I have quite a few. Some have VR (Victoria?) as well. I just assumed they were from guns or the cover plate that goes over old padlocks. I never did properly I.D. them.
I love those hammered and Romans!
Dave.

 

[CRUSADER]

Excellent finds! Crusader, I got a question for you. What do you call those pieces of brass that have WR (crown) PATENT? I have quite a few. Some have VR (Victoria?) as well. I just assumed they were from guns or the cover plate that goes over old padlocks. I never did properly I.D. them.
I love those hammered and Romans!
Dave.

Its a lock plate cover. Mine William IV & yours Victorian

 

[camb1]

WTG on another great hunt.

 

[shaun7]

how would the coin weight have been used? ie: did it weigh single coins or the weight in silver of a few

Hi Shaun, another learning lesson from me...!!!! Hope you had luck with Cru today, wish I was with you guys....

About 98% of coin weights were used to weigh gold coins, as Cru says not only England but Europe and beyond. Only a few silver coin weights were ever made, I guess because of a shortage of gold in those years they made large silver coins, and needed weights to insure they were not clipped too much. Here is a photo of a SILVER coinweight that I found last year, they are massive things! :

thanks woody, i had a great day with cru( might take him a while to get over it)
thats what i was thinking about the coin weights (about the clipping and such)

 

[CRUSADER]

how would the coin weight have been used? ie: did it weigh single coins or the weight in silver of a few

Hi Shaun, another learning lesson from me...!!!! Hope you had luck with Cru today, wish I was with you guys....

About 98% of coin weights were used to weigh gold coins, as Cru says not only England but Europe and beyond. Only a few silver coin weights were ever made, I guess because of a shortage of gold in those years they made large silver coins, and needed weights to insure they were not clipped too much. Here is a photo of a SILVER coinweight that I found last year, they are massive things! :

thanks woody, i had a great day with cru( might take him a while to get over it)
thats what i was thinking about the coin weights (about the clipping and such)

Not so much the clipping, as the amount of fakes.

 

[woody50]

how would the coin weight have been used? ie: did it weigh single coins or the weight in silver of a few

Hi Shaun, another learning lesson from me...!!!! Hope you had luck with Cru today, wish I was with you guys....

About 98% of coin weights were used to weigh gold coins, as Cru says not only England but Europe and beyond. Only a few silver coin weights were ever made, I guess because of a shortage of gold in those years they made large silver coins, and needed weights to insure they were not clipped too much. Here is a photo of a SILVER coinweight that I found last year, they are massive things! :

thanks woody, i had a great day with cru( might take him a while to get over it)
thats what i was thinking about the coin weights (about the clipping and such)

Not so much the clipping, as the amount of fakes.

That is correct Cru! Nice you letting Shaun look around with you. Waiting to hear just how cold it was!

 

[woody50]

how would the coin weight have been used? ie: did it weigh single coins or the weight in silver of a few

Hi Shaun, another learning lesson from me...!!!! Hope you had luck with Cru today, wish I was with you guys....

About 98% of coin weights were used to weigh gold coins, as Cru says not only England but Europe and beyond. Only a few silver coin weights were ever made, I guess because of a shortage of gold in those years they made large silver coins, and needed weights to insure they were not clipped too much. Here is a photo of a SILVER coinweight that I found last year, they are massive things! :

thanks woody, i had a great day with cru( might take him a while to get over it)
thats what i was thinking about the coin weights (about the clipping and such)

Oh oh.... Did you skunk him again?
I am sitting on the edge of my chair (and butt of course) in great expectation waiting for your post!

 

[shaun7]

how would the coin weight have been used? ie: did it weigh single coins or the weight in silver of a few

Hi Shaun, another learning lesson from me...!!!! Hope you had luck with Cru today, wish I was with you guys....

About 98% of coin weights were used to weigh gold coins, as Cru says not only England but Europe and beyond. Only a few silver coin weights were ever made, I guess because of a shortage of gold in those years they made large silver coins, and needed weights to insure they were not clipped too much. Here is a photo of a SILVER coinweight that I found last year, they are massive things! :

thanks woody, i had a great day with cru( might take him a while to get over it)
thats what i was thinking about the coin weights (about the clipping and such)

Oh oh.... Did you skunk him again?
I am sitting on the edge of my chair (and butt of course) in great expectation waiting for your post!

see my post woody in todays finds!

 

[tomted62]

Very nice coins!!

 

[woody50]

see my post woody in todays finds!

OKDOKIE

 

[KirkTN]

Hey Crusader, thanks for the welcome back. Outstanding finds. I can only hope to find coins that old someday.

 

[kdismuke1]

SUPER FINDS. BEST OF LUCK. YOUR POSTS ARE SUPER.

 

[BuckleBoy]

Three Hammered AND a Roman??!! Now THAT's a GREAT start to ANY year!


I don't know how I missed this post! I must've thought I'd seen the lower section day four, or was it middle section day three? :P


Nice work, Cru. How's the weather over there?



Regards,



Buckles