Our oldest and best silver yet today

[Rip_Uk]

Today's outing we stumbled across our best coin find: a William III 1690 Silver Sixpence. Its in quite good condition.

We also found:

A piece of silver that may have been a coin but it is smaller and looks clipped at the edges
various other coins - two old pennies and two I cant make out.
3 buttons
A couple of drawer pulls or handles
A 6D (Sixpence) token marked T.Hyde & Sons. Cant find out much about this.
A small brooch
A buckle and other various items.

 

[Westfront]

Nice silver! How do you get driving band fragments? Is there an artillery shooting range close or could it be AA shells from Battle of Britain?

 

[Rip_Uk]

Nice silver! How do you get driving band fragments? Is there an artillery shooting range close or could it be AA shells from Battle of Britain?

Thanks. not sure about the artillery shell. You are referring to the middle picture?

 

[Westfront]

Second row, middle pic. The othere side has thicker ribs in the other direction i guess. We dig them by the hundred in all sizes here.

 

[CRUSADER]

Actually the Will is in very good condition, normally you would have about 20 near blank ones made into a love tokens before you got that! Good start, it can only get older.

The smooth silver was most like a completely worn coin, not sure why they trimmed it though. They often come up countermarked by silver smiths to put back into circulation.

I believe the shrapnel piece is from a anti-aircraft type shell.

The 6d Token looks late 1800s, early 1900s.

 

[Rip_Uk]

Second row, middle pic. The othere side has thicker ribs in the other direction i guess. We dig them by the hundred in all sizes here.

Oh that is strange finding that then. It does have thicker ribs in the other direction.

I have found a fragment like this before on another site smaller.

Thanks for the info

 

[Rip_Uk]

Actually the Will is in very good condition, normally you would have about 20 near blank ones made into a love tokens before you got that! Good start, it can only get older.

The smooth silver was most like a completely worn coin, not sure why they trimmed it though. They often come up countermarked by silver smiths to put back into circulation.

I believe the shrapnel piece is from a anti-aircraft type shell.

The 6d Token looks late 1800s, early 1900s.

We were very happy with the silver coin you can read everything on it.

 

[Westfront]

I usually have a 15 to 1 driving band/coin ratio....and a box full i can't lift in the shed...Like your silvers alot more!

 

[CRUSADER]

Your be surprised, the token might be your best/most valuable find. They are very collectable to those that know.

 

[Rip_Uk]

I usually have a 15 to 1 driving band/coin ratio....and a box full i can't lift in the shed...Like your silvers alot more!

hehe, Im afraid shell fragments dont have much value. Do you find a lot of ammunition casings?

 

[Rip_Uk]

Your be surprised, the token might be your best/most valuable find. They are very collectable to those that know.

I do like to find a token, they tell more of a story. Maybe we should look into this more to try and find the source.

 

[CRUSADER]

I do like to find a token, they tell more of a story. Maybe we should look into this more to try and find the source.

Already on the case, you need expensive out of print books, even with my library I've not got them.

 

[CRUSADER]

Always good to have the right contacts:

[FONT=&quot]Thomas Hyde and Sons – Birmingham market 1900-1940. Had a son Henry S. Hyde who also issued tokens[/FONT].

 

[park pirate]

Nice old coin...

 

[Rip_Uk]

Always good to have the right contacts:

[FONT="]Thomas Hyde and Sons – Birmingham market 1900-1940. Had a son Henry S. Hyde who also issued tokens[/FONT].

Nice researching. Thanks

 

[Westfront]

hehe, Im afraid shell fragments dont have much value. Do you find a lot of ammunition casings?

I dig them so it don't take me much to throw them into a box. I don't want to dig them again the next time on that field and i get some gas money from them.
This box is from last year, roughly 35 Kg

This is the bucket i started 2014

This are thousands of holes i dug....do you call that a lot?

 

[Rip_Uk]

I dig them so it don't take me much to throw them into a box. I don't want to dig them again the next time on that field and i get some gas money from them.
This box is from last year, roughly 35 Kg

This is the bucket i started 2014

This are thousands of holes i dug....do you call that a lot?

Omg. That is a lot of ammunition!

 

[CRUSADER]

Nice researching. Thanks

Believe it or not there is still plenty that is not on the internet, that's when you need the right man with the right knowledge. I do plenty of researching but when it comes to specialist items, I prefer to learn from the leading collectors/experts. Means I have less to learn.

Sadly it's not a rare one & only worth £2, but never over look them, some are much more valuable & to the untrained eye (me included) look just like that one!

Anyways, always nice to have a full ID & as your finds improve, so will your skills in finding good spots.

 

[Rip_Uk]

At the minute this place is the best for me to get ID's but learning slowly.

£2 is still something I suppose until we hit the rares.

 

[ivobg]

the worn off look like the russian ,,wired'' money
check them in google