Very old hammered silver and other silver coins

[Aquila]

I was lucky enough to find some silver coins from field. Two of them are hammered . One looks like arab dirhem, might be as old as 800 A.D. Also nice Swedish silver öre from 1711 and silver 25 penniä 1890. Also clay pipes, coppers from last four hundred years and musketballs from the Great Northern War.

 

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[Digger82]

Your hammered coin looks very similar to the coins minted in Sweden between the year 995-1364, very nice finds by the way.

 

[JW15]

Congrats on the silver!! Well done!

 

[Nutriasub]

nice hammered, any more info on it?

 

[SouthJerseyRyan]

Love that hammered, beautiful find.

 

[CRUSADER]

Wow - British - Anglo-Saxon Penny - 'Aethelred the unready' I think, need to look it up Paid to the Vikings to go home without fighting (its an Anglo-Saxon Penny at the very least)

 

[CRUSADER]

Looked in the book, my hunch was right is a;

Aethelred II
978-1016
Second Hand Type

If you want a full ID (read PM)

 

[Silver Searcher]

Wow - British - Anglo-Saxon Penny - 'Aethelred the unready' I think, need to look it up Paid to the Vikings to go home without fighting (its an Anglo-Saxon Penny at the very least)

Yes it is Cru...second hand type, super find Æthelred II, the Unready (978-1016), Penny Second Hand type...WOW Danegeld This is a Banner Find, the History behind these coins

SS

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

Most excellent!

 

[Silver Searcher]

Everybody needs to vote Banner on this find. Viking Bribe money paid by Aethelred II, the Unready, or Danegeld The Danegeld ( /ˈdeɪn.ɡɛld/;[1] "Danish tax", literally "Dane's gold") was a tax raised to pay tribute to the Viking raiders to save a land from being ravaged. It was characteristic of royal policy in both England and Francia during the ninth through eleventh centuries, collected both as tributary, to buy off the attackers, and as stipendiary, to pay the defensive forces.

SS

 

[hammered]

Great find on the Aethelred Penny , considering the context of the coin, where it was found and the fact that it is Aethelred, this is most likely Danegeld, as SS says. A definite Banner vote from me
The end of Aethelred's reign came after the Battle of Assandun, against Knutr (Canute) in October of 1016. As luck would have it, I have secured permission to detect the farmland where the battle took place. I'm just waiting for the rape stubble to be ploughed up.
You need to hit that area hard Aquila, see if you can find some more


hammered

 

[Cool Hand Fluke]

A fascinating history lesson about this very interesting coin! Thanks all!

 

[Nate in Ga]

BANNER there needs to be more votes this is to me far more more interesting than a 1916d merc.

 

[ramjet2187]

Banner vote in.

 

[Arctica]

Excellent find .... Banner

 

[CRUSADER]

BANNER there needs to be more votes this is to me far more more interesting than a 1916d merc.

Glad you said it, lots of 1916D Mercs have made the banner, time for something different from a dark period in history.

 

[Nutriasub]

Thanks to the UK wise mans!!

thats incredible history behind the coin, my vote is in!!

Keep looking we need the other half

 

[Nate in Ga]

BANNER there needs to be more votes this is to me far more more interesting than a 1916d merc.

Glad you said it, lots of 1916D Mercs have made the banner, time for something different from a dark period in history.

bumping and banner voting again

 

[Aquila]

Thanks everybody. My best coin find this far. And special thanks to Cru for identifying it.

 

[steelheadwill]

Certainly banner material
Congrats on some great silver
Hats off for the info Crusader