My last two days later in silver.

[vince76]

These last two days I searched the both areas for half a day each. With the GPS tracker I could find new paths. The bronze coins keep coming but being in a hill near the surface the most of them is almost flat.
Somehow I got used with them but not with the shine of the silver.
These two days each area paid me with a silver coins.

Now I can rest for a while

Drachm of Dyrrachium. 260 B.C.




Drachm of Dyrrachium 150 B.C. - 100 A.D.




Iron cross. Maybe medieval.



Some lead stuff.



some more pics






I wanted to say: My last two days paid in silver.
Don't know how to correct it!

 

[vince76]

What a great day detecting for relics and a huge 2 silver coin bonus, congratulations!

Thanks Pro.
These areas are my piece of mind.

 

[vince76]

Wow! Those are some incredible finds! I particularly love the silver Drachm of Dyrrachium. 260 B.C.

So cool!
I voted banner for that one.

Thanks mate.
I am gratefull for your vote. It would be great if i could find more Drachms.

 

[vince76]

Cool find Vince, can you post a top-down photo so we can see both sides of that half of the bullet? I can't tell from the side-view if there may be more faint embossing that might give a better understanding. It looks like it may be a crude representation of a "Fulmen" or lightning flash from a thundercloud, an image the Romans and Hellenistic Greeks liked to use, where the message to the victim was that getting struck with the bullet was like getting struck by lightning, or by Zeus or Jupiter himself!

Thanks a lot Plumbata.
Your info is a lot interesting but i can't have another pic. I have left everything at home and for the moment i'm not there.
I can tell you another interesting fact.
Why did you choose Plumbata as your nickname? Does it have a meaning for you?
I can explain you the meaning in Albanian.
Plumb - Lead - Bullet
Ata - Them or There
Plumbata - Lead, bullet for them - Kill them

 

[Plumbata]

That is interesting Vince, I've seen many good artifacts are discovered in Albania (Obviously that's where your Dyrrhachium silvers came from) but that translation isn't my reason. I collect Neolithic through Medieval weapons and tools, and the Plumbata was a very effective long-range light throwing Javelin used in the Roman military by their lightly armored and swift-moving auxiliary troops to harass the enemy before their heavy infantry moved within range. It was a lead-weighted barbed dart, and the lead weight also had a molded socket for the short wood shaft. Since lead is quite soft, if the Plumbata missed the target, it would often bend or break so the enemy could not throw the javelin back at the Romans. This example of Roman military technology always impressed me. Here is a better picture of the example in my collection that I bought when I was 15, it is from Germany and likely from the 3rd or 4th century: