CRUSADER
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Firstly I've had a bit of a set back with my physio as I can't do any due to a mini flare up that I'm still nursing. Not sure when I can attempt another hunt.
This is actually Saturday's hunt for 4 hours on a random field & then the Field of 500 which only ended up with a few buttons, broken buckles & 2 scrappies.
Yesterday Cru'dad returned to the Roman Metal Working Site for 4.5 hrs & managed:
20 Scrappies
2 Roman Hob Nails (plus a lost one)
2 Iron Age Fibula (Brooches)
1 Roman Hair Pin Frag.
Plus a Silver Plated Roman Coin explain by Cru'dad below:
''The coin was an experimental denomination issued in AD312, called a Base Silver Argenteus or Centenionalis by Constantine I, at Trier containing 25% of silver – supposedly tariffed at 100 to the gold solidus (hence the name Centenionalis).
However, it was soon abandoned and that denomination name resurrected in AD318/9 to a small billon coin of similar appearance but containing only 2-3% of silver. There were also issues made for Maximinius II and Licinius with different Reverse designs at the same time at the Trier mint also subsequently abandoned. This is our first Constantine I silver we have ever found and rare to get as so few made. Unfortunately mint exergue has been corroded away as an STR type is very rare as opposed to PTR as rare. Reference: Sears 15859 and RIC VII TR 208a (where it is wrongly dated) as it should be in RIC VI featured with TR 826''
This is actually Saturday's hunt for 4 hours on a random field & then the Field of 500 which only ended up with a few buttons, broken buckles & 2 scrappies.
Yesterday Cru'dad returned to the Roman Metal Working Site for 4.5 hrs & managed:
20 Scrappies
2 Roman Hob Nails (plus a lost one)
2 Iron Age Fibula (Brooches)
1 Roman Hair Pin Frag.
Plus a Silver Plated Roman Coin explain by Cru'dad below:
''The coin was an experimental denomination issued in AD312, called a Base Silver Argenteus or Centenionalis by Constantine I, at Trier containing 25% of silver – supposedly tariffed at 100 to the gold solidus (hence the name Centenionalis).
However, it was soon abandoned and that denomination name resurrected in AD318/9 to a small billon coin of similar appearance but containing only 2-3% of silver. There were also issues made for Maximinius II and Licinius with different Reverse designs at the same time at the Trier mint also subsequently abandoned. This is our first Constantine I silver we have ever found and rare to get as so few made. Unfortunately mint exergue has been corroded away as an STR type is very rare as opposed to PTR as rare. Reference: Sears 15859 and RIC VII TR 208a (where it is wrongly dated) as it should be in RIC VI featured with TR 826''
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