Shotgun Alley - Keeps on Giving...

[CRUSADER]

Spent another 11 hours & 15 minutes with Dad for 6 hours 15 minutes doing what we do best, sticking to the tight grid, missing as lttle as we can.
Its hard to type & happy dance at the same time but here we go.......

65 Roman Bronze Coins
Royal Farthing
17th C Token
17th C Thimble
Buckles
Roman Hair Pin
Broken Hammered
My smallest Roman Coin ever - 6.08mm, 0.33g (Pretty sure the XP is working OK)
2 Saxon Brooches
2nd C Roman Chicken Brooch (complete)
Roman Silver
Hammered Threepence of Lizzy - over stamp 1575/6 but its not overstamped, it reads 15756 (never seen one)

I think its time to rest, I mean go back to work.

 

[CRUSADER]

Silver...

Roman Coins added.

 

[rayrayvegas]

Saying your hunt was productive just doesn't seem like enough. Congrats on amazing finds.

 

[CRUSADER]

Saying your hunt was productive just doesn't seem like enough. Congrats on amazing finds.

It was 2 hunts, but still killer.

 

[CRUSADER]

BB asked a question the other day, 'do we get broken pieces that fit together'. I basically said, 'yes sometimes'.
Well the leather mount in the shape of a star burst was re-united today. Dad had the first piece on the way to the site the other day, & I had the other on the way back to the car.

 

[rayrayvegas]

It was 2 hunts, but still killer.

Your 2 equal my 20. Lol.Could not even imagine digging up the history you just did. Astounding.

 

[Westfront]

You get lots of stuff on the way back to the car! I would walk up and down to the car and back!
Your gridding system surely pays off! The chicken brooch is cool, the hammered is a beaut but i like the Faustina more. Never got that girl on a silver. Congrats!

 

[rodarian]

I'd say it's working, that is the tiniest coin i've ever seen. Love it all!

 

[WHADIFIND]

Excellent finds of course. But, MAN! You must be listening very, very closely to find some of those tiny things! LOL

Nice!

 

[pepperj]

Great assortment of finds once again, the hammered is one really nice silver along with the Roman. The chicken brooch is a great little find, very cool.

 

[Rick (Nova Scotia)]

Totally awesome, so much good stuff.
Congrats on your chicken complete with spring, must be some alloy in that to make it last.
Like to see a close up of the 5 figure date...that sounds like a unique piece too.

 

[CRUSADER]

Totally awesome, so much good stuff.
Congrats on your chicken complete with spring, must be some alloy in that to make it last.
Like to see a close up of the 5 figure date...that sounds like a unique piece too.

Good as I can get;

 

[Bill D. (VA)]

Wow - you guys keep pounding out the relics and coins. That's an absurd number of romans for one hunt. And I love that Lizzie with the error. I've never seen that before on a coin of that age. How do you think that happened?

 

[robfinds]

That looks like a good day Cru by any standards

 

[Argentium]

Oh Man ! The Lizzy and the Faustina are in Great Shape ! I'm stunned again by all these ridiculously good finds !!!!!!!!!

 

[Greylock]

That chicken brooch is a killer find. That 5 digit date hammered is pretty cool too. That place must be very exciting to detect.

 

[Ahab8]

Wow Cru sometimes I don't comment on your posts because I can only say how incredible they are in so many different ways but this site is incredible. Some of those buckles are very very nice as well. But that Lizzie error is a KILLER find. Congrats on another great hunt....even for you

 

[CRUSADER]

Wow - you guys keep pounding out the relics and coins. That's an absurd number of romans for one hunt. And I love that Lizzie with the error. I've never seen that before on a coin of that age. How do you think that happened?

No, it was 2 hunts of 11+ hours total.

I've got a couple of lizzy overstrike dates, where they re-work the die, but no idea why they did it like this one. None of my coin books covers these odd balls. So I know very little.

 

[CRUSADER]

Roman Coins added to post 2.

 

[CRUSADER]

That chicken brooch is a killer find. That 5 digit date hammered is pretty cool too. That place must be very exciting to detect.

Yes, exciting is the word.