Roman Lion Site - Day 6 - SILVER...

[CRUSADER]

Nice cool day very little wind & no rain.
We have finished this field for now after covering 98% of the Roman Scatter. The last piece we may come back to if our options are limited but its not worth us gridding for 1 scrappy every acre.
4 Hours & 15 Minutes;

Decorated Tombac Button
19 Roman Bronze Coins - Couple of album ones
Silver Ant. of Tacitus AD275-76 (New reverse type for us) Only ruled for 8 months from ''25 September 275 - June 276 A.D''.

So another Cru'team hunt.

 

[DownNDirty]

Very nice coins, even for you & Cru dad.

 

[Patriot Relics]

Keep it up Cru, you dig Roman's like we dig zlincs lol

 

[CRUSADER]

Keep it up Cru, you dig Roman's like we dig zlincs lol

Yeap it works in the same way as the US Coin Shooters, dig enough zlincs & wheats & the silver will show up. On this field it was about 50/1.

 

[CRUSADER]

I was going to ask if that was silver plate. Very nice. The bottom right looks billon, yes?

Not in the true sense of the description although many bronze coins did have very low silver content. We find that many of the Emperor's & their mints had very differing bronze mixs, so much so that they all discolour in differing ways, so it can be possible to guess a coin type, like a Victory Left by its patina even if the detail is gone. (This can of course be crossed checked with size & weight)

 

[pepperj]

Well done the Roman coinage Cru. liking the brown toned ones.

 

[mindcrime1988]

Nice to see some of those coins still have excellent detail on them. I'm sure finding coins like that never gets old. Once again, thanks for sharing.

 

[Aureus]

Top left on the blue. It has some green patina so might be a copper-core - silver plated. But it counts

It does for sure. Great find. Especially being struck for a such short period.

 

[Aureus]

Nope, just bronze with museum wax.

I was wondering what type of wax do you use? There's a few different brands, I was thinking of buying it for some of my buttons.

 

[CRUSADER]

I was wondering what type of wax do you use? There's a few different brands, I was thinking of buying it for some of my buttons.

Its expensive but last years;
Micro-Crystalline wax - RENAISSANCE

They also do a surface cleaner called PRE-LIM, which you could use before waxing.

These are both professional Museum grade stuff which will not damage metal & is reversible.

 

[CRUSADER]

Well done the Roman coinage Cru. liking the brown toned ones.

In some ways they are better than the usual brown tones of the bronze patina types we see because of the RED iron rust hue. Which only adheres to coins in water-logged soil conditions which carry either naturally occurring iron (from iron stone) or maybe from the Roman Iron Nails.

 

[Scrappy]

Not in the true sense of the description although many bronze coins did have very low silver content. We find that many of the Emperor's & their mints had very differing bronze mixs, so much so that they all discolour in differing ways, so it can be possible to guess a coin type, like a Victory Left by its patina even if the detail is gone. (This can of course be crossed checked with size & weight)

Haha. That’s cool you can narrow types by patina. I have a similar saying “not all alloys are created equal”, whether it be bronze, pewter, etc...

Over here we notice it a lot with pewter blends.

 

[vince76]

Wow, great Roman coins! The soil has been very kind to them. Good job Cru'team

 

[CRUSADER]

Wow, great Roman coins! The soil has been very kind to them. Good job Cru'team

Yes, managed to avoid all the chemicals & farm machinery.