DavidBeard
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Hi All,
I've had to do some prioritising these last few days - whether to go back to the 120 acres where I found the Elizabethan hammered or to go to the 8 acre pasture field on my local farm where I'd found the 2 Roman brooches and Charles I shilling earlier this year (now ploughed though, rolled and set). Which would you do? Yep the Roman did it for me too!
It wasn't long before I dug this beauty:
A sestertius of Atoninus Pius (I believe) and if I'm reading these books right and it is Antoninus that clear 'XIIII' relates to the year 150AD - Is that Salus standing feeding a snake on the back? - I know you experts will put me right if I'm wrong! I think there is enough detail to give it a positive ID. Weighs 19.5g and around 30mm in diameter.
Found another Roman (maybe) but this is well past its ID stage:
Weighs 6.8g around 25mm in diameter.
Other handfull of coins included George III, Victoria, George V, George VI & Elizabeth II:
Some Token with the number '18' (could be date) clearly visible and the letters 'C' and 'B' on the other side - Any Ideas?
A few buttons (naturally)
A couple of Musket Balls, Bag Seal, Remains of a Spindle Whorl and an Oval (Nippled) object?
A W.M.R.E. Locomotive badge:
and bits of other stuff, 3 Bullets, etc:
I well pleased I've found another Roman (or 2) -
It would be great if these seeds didn't germinate so quickly! I still may have time to get back to the 120 acres but then again, there's another field just up from this one (only 9 acres) been ploughed, rolled & set too! Next week we put the clocks back and there'll be no time for anything!
I've had to do some prioritising these last few days - whether to go back to the 120 acres where I found the Elizabethan hammered or to go to the 8 acre pasture field on my local farm where I'd found the 2 Roman brooches and Charles I shilling earlier this year (now ploughed though, rolled and set). Which would you do? Yep the Roman did it for me too!
It wasn't long before I dug this beauty:
A sestertius of Atoninus Pius (I believe) and if I'm reading these books right and it is Antoninus that clear 'XIIII' relates to the year 150AD - Is that Salus standing feeding a snake on the back? - I know you experts will put me right if I'm wrong! I think there is enough detail to give it a positive ID. Weighs 19.5g and around 30mm in diameter.
Found another Roman (maybe) but this is well past its ID stage:
Weighs 6.8g around 25mm in diameter.
Other handfull of coins included George III, Victoria, George V, George VI & Elizabeth II:
Some Token with the number '18' (could be date) clearly visible and the letters 'C' and 'B' on the other side - Any Ideas?
A few buttons (naturally)
A couple of Musket Balls, Bag Seal, Remains of a Spindle Whorl and an Oval (Nippled) object?
A W.M.R.E. Locomotive badge:
and bits of other stuff, 3 Bullets, etc:
I well pleased I've found another Roman (or 2) -
It would be great if these seeds didn't germinate so quickly! I still may have time to get back to the 120 acres but then again, there's another field just up from this one (only 9 acres) been ploughed, rolled & set too! Next week we put the clocks back and there'll be no time for anything!
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I bet most Sestertius by Marcus Aurelius (Emperor Antoninus Pius had a round beard ). 
