Roman coins

[robfinds]

Well been back to the hammered gold field, didn't find anymore but I will keep searching you never know. What I did find though was 10 roman coins in one area of the field. Roman bronze coins of this type are fairly common finds, makes you wonder why they lost so many of these coins ?. Also had a worn George 111 copper and a lead cloth seal late medieval. As I said I'm going to keep searching this field for a while yet.
ps. will post some pics. of the hammered gold coin when it comes back from straightening.

HH Robert.

 

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[Woodland Detectors]

Very nice indeed!

 

[t-bucket]

WTG cool finds !!!!!

 

[ohannos]

Te romans are not in bad condition at all, WTG.
Cant wait for the updated pics ot the hammered gold

 

[Silver Searcher]

Better than average condition the Roman coins Rob did you get a value on the Goldy

 

[shaun7]

looks like you've found a good field rob i'm still looking for one in my area

 

[Trond]

Beautiful coins.

 

[CRUSADER]

I have often wondered the same thing, did they go around throwing them in the fields

 

[Deno]

Those are amazing. You guys over there are so lucky. But then again if I did live there I would be divorced and unemployed because I would be hunting all the time.

 

[robfinds]

Better than average condition the Roman coins Rob did you get a value on the Goldy

No should be easy after straightening, not the one I first thought though (no flag at stern).

 

[crazyjarhead]

It's hard to say why so many were lost. Maybe when the Roman empire fell they were just dumped

 

[robfinds]

It's hard to say why so many were lost. Maybe when the Roman empire fell they were just dumped

possible, but why weren't they just melted down bronze/copper was valuable.

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Nice Roman bronze coins! Congrats and HH, Mike

 

[kdismuke1]

NICE FINDS.

 

[capt1989]

You guys across the big blue have the opportunity to find coins thousands of years old and because it happens frequently it seems that some of the appreciation of the history involved gets lost in the process. Our young nation does not offer us the same opportunity. I think that you are very lucky indeed! Good luck with the field and HH.

john

 

[Silver Searcher]

It's hard to say why so many were lost. Maybe when the Roman empire fell they were just dumped

possible, but why weren't they just melted down bronze/copper was valuable.

To be honest Rob, I think we find so many because 400 years of occupation that's a lot of legioners wages, early on pay for a legioner ranged from 300 sestersie(75 denari) right up to 3000 denari by AD5, then we have all the smaller Bronzes that came along, follis,Ae bronzes, quinarius, billon, minums and so on,and as you know some of them bronzes are really small they must have lost thousands and thousands of them

 

[robfinds]

You guys across the big blue have the opportunity to find coins thousands of years old and because it happens frequently it seems that some of the appreciation of the history involved gets lost in the process. Our young nation does not offer us the same opportunity. I think that you are very lucky indeed! Good luck with the field and HH.

john

sadly some of the appreciation does get lost, but i can still remember my first Roman coin. The thing is detecting in England can be like detecting in a very large museum absolutely anything can come up anywhere.

 

[robfinds]

It's hard to say why so many were lost. Maybe when the Roman empire fell they were just dumped

possible, but why weren't they just melted down bronze/copper was valuable.

To be honest Rob, I think we find so many because 400 years of occupation that's a lot of legioners wages, early on pay for a legioner ranged from 300 sestersie(75 denari) right up to 3000 denari by AD5, then we have all the smaller Bronzes that came along, follis,Ae bronzes, quinarius, billon, minums and so on,and as you know some of them bronzes are really small they must have lost thousands and thousands of them

i agree but don't forget the population was tiny compared to today, something dosen't add up.

 

[shaun7]

at the risk of sounding stupid again

why does everyone talk in terms of soldiers wages
surely not all the romans here were soldiers?

 

[Silver Searcher]

at the risk of sounding stupid again

why does everyone talk in terms of soldiers wages
surely not all the romans here were soldiers?

Not all shaun......but they also had a huge entourage with them who required payment. A legion of Romans consited of 5240 men 6000 including non-combatents.