Roman Metal Working Site - Day 5 - Nice ROMAN SILVER...

[CRUSADER]

Cru'dad & I continued on with gridding the site which is still on cultivated land. They must be due to drill it this week, so time is limited. We spend 5 hours digging & just when I had given up hope for a good Roman Silver, after all the low grade debased ones we have had recently - BAM - Got one! It's about as early as we normally get, other than the odd rare BC one.

Pictured today's metal working pieces to show evidence of the Site's name.
Jetton
34 Scrappies
2 broken Fibula
1 Roman Ring Frag.
1st C AD T Shaped Fibula (First of its type for the collection)
Silver Denarius of Vespasian circa 69AD.

 

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[Aureus]

That's a beautiful Roman silver!

 

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[VERMONTIS]

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[basque-man]

Amazing again................and again......................and again!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[CRUSADER]

Nice silver the brooch is a head stud brooch probably had enamaling inlay at one point.

SS

Funny enough that was Cru'dad's guess, but its an exact match for no.28, fig. 162 (T-shaped brooch, enamelled types, 1st-2nd C AD) in Hattatts book. Cheers

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Very interesting finds as always Cru, congrats on the Roman silver!
Love the look of this unique token and the T Shaped Fibula.

Dave

 

[CRUSADER]

Very interesting finds as always Cru, congrats on the Roman silver!
Love the look of this unique token and the T Shaped Fibula.

Dave

Its a Roman Coin;

Centenionalis of Decentius (we think, as the Obv legend is missing);
https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/anc...1/Default.aspx