The generous field

[robfinds]

Hello all, been detecting this pasture field for ages now and it still keeps giving finds. Had 3 hours this aft. and found a nice Georgian buckle and a cut quarter short cross (1180-1247). Luckily for me this field was ploughed land last year,that's why the finds are still in detectable range.
HH Robert.

 

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[Burdie]

It is neat to see old relics and coins that go that far back. Congrats.

Burdie

 

[spritch]

Great finds- Those quarters are tough to find but great once you do find them. Can't quite make out the king from the quarter but I'm not the expert on that. Keep on finding. (What part of England are you hunting?)
Stuart

 

[robfinds]

Great finds- Those quarters are tough to find but great once you do find them. Can't quite make out the king from the quarter but I'm not the expert on that. Keep on finding. (What part of England are you hunting?)
Stuart

Hello Stuart, should be able to id the king later by the curls in the hair but it's very tedious looking through the book. I detect in the north of England,I live in Rotherham South Yorkshire.

 

[CRUSADER]

Great finds- Those quarters are tough to find but great once you do find them. Can't quite make out the king from the quarter but I'm not the expert on that. Keep on finding. (What part of England are you hunting?)
Stuart

Hello Stuart, should be able to id the king later by the curls in the hair but it's very tedious looking through the book. I detect in the north of England,I live in Rotherham South Yorkshire.

I think the moneyer will help narrow it down. Looks like 'RUS?

 

[robfinds]

Great finds- Those quarters are tough to find but great once you do find them. Can't quite make out the king from the quarter but I'm not the expert on that. Keep on finding. (What part of England are you hunting?)
Stuart

Hello Stuart, should be able to id the king later by the curls in the hair but it's very tedious looking through the book. I detect in the north of England,I live in Rotherham South Yorkshire.

I think the moneyer will help narrow it down. Looks like 'RUS?

Yes thought that myself,but theres a bar going across the u(dosn't show up in the pic) that may make the moneyer Pieres .

 

[Africa]

Are you chaps saying that they ised to cut the complete coin into quarter sections and then use them like that but at a quarter of the value of the complete coin, if we did that to our coins here in South Africa, the government would lock us up But our money here is worth nothing, it is cheaper to in fact drill a hole through the centre of our money than to go out and buy washes.

However I do not deface money in this way.

To think that that belt buckle has withstood all these years in the ground and is still in such a fine condition is great.

 

[robfinds]

Are you chaps saying that they ised to cut the complete coin into quarter sections and then use them like that but at a quarter of the value of the complete coin, if we did that to our coins here in South Africa, the government would lock us up But our money here is worth nothing, it is cheaper to in fact drill a hole through the centre of our money than to go out and buy washes.

However I do not deface money in this way.

To think that that belt buckle has withstood all these years in the ground and is still in such a fine condition is great.

Yes that's what they did,at that time very few halfpennies or farthings were issued. So if a loaf of bread cost a farthing you had to have smaller than a penny to buy a single loaf.

 

[Africa]

Slightly off topic, but just for interest how much do you pay for a loaf of white bread and what does it weigh, I do not eat bread, but will find out what it costs here in South Africa and what it weighs.

 

[robfinds]

Slightly off topic, but just for interest how much do you pay for a loaf of white bread and what does it weigh, I do not eat bread, but will find out what it costs here in South Africa and what it weighs.

hello Africa, had to ask the wife, a white sliced loaf costs around £1.30 and weighs around 800g.

 

[Africa]

We pay R8.00 a loaf, so it is more expensive to live where you do compared to here in South Africa.

 

[BuckleBoy]

Welcome to TreasureNet, Africa!

I have good friends in Praetoria who sing in a choir under the direction of Petru Graebe. I look forward to reading your posts.


robfinds,

Any hammered silver is an Excellent find! Congratulations on your recoveries.



Regards,


Buckleboy

 

[spritch]

I found my reference book and I think that there is a good chance it is a King John. The short cross with four pearls, the curl of the hair and part of the beard and Rochester Monmeyer. My opinion (which isn't worth much being a yankee). Lookspretty closethough.

Stuart

 

[tymcmurray]

Generous indeed!!!
Congratulations on two very nice finds.

 

[robfinds]

I found my reference book and I think that there is a good chance it is a King John. The short cross with four pearls, the curl of the hair and part of the beard and Rochester Monmeyer. My opinion (which isn't worth much being a yankee). Lookspretty closethough.

Stuart

Cheers for the info Stuart. HH Robert

 

[TimC (North Alabama)]

Man, the 12th and 13th century, that's amazing and almost mind boggling to us state side folks.

Awesome!!

 

[artorius]

My understanding is that the long-cross penny became universal after the 1240s (in the reign of Henry III), so your quartered penny could be no later than that. Super find!

artorius