1422-61 Henry VI hammered silver half penny - Saltire- Leaf issue SL.1

Obv hENRIC REX ANGLIx

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

1247 Henry III hammered silver voided long cross farthing

Obv /VND - London mint

1285/6 Edward 1st hammered silver farthing - new issue inner circle both sides - Type 28 Oval flan

Rev EDWARDVS REX A

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

Ancient gold ingot 11.7g, 34.99mm L - reported as treasure to museum

Perfect weight to make 2 full Celtic gold staters

Scottish 1249 Alexander III hammered silver farthing

Obv ALEXANDER REX

Rev /WI/ - moneyer Wilam of Fres mint

16thC gilded silver religious ring - reported to museum as treasure

+ FERE GOD + (means fear god)

4.6g, 21.05mm dia

1300-10 Edward 1st hammered silver farthing - Type 28

Obv + EDWARDVS REX

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON

1377-1399 Richard II hammered silver half penny - Type 2 (f)

Obv + RICARD x REX x ANGL'

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

1217/8 Henry III hammered silver short cross penny - Class 7a

Obv + hENRICVS REX

Obv + ROGER OF R CA - Moneyer Roger of R - Canterbury mint

1669 John Jackson, clothier of Witham Essex 'His half penny' hammered copper trade half penny

Ref Norweb 1428

1189 Richard 1st hammered silver short cross penny - Class 2

Obv + hENRICVS REX

Obv + VLARD ON CAN - Moneyer Vlard of Canterbury mint

1344 Edward III hammered silver penny - Florin issue

Obv +EDWAR ANGL DNS hYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

Soldino of Antonio Venier (ANTO.VEN-ERIO.DVX.)

Type 2 c. 1466-74
Doges – Tron, Marcello.

Obverse description: Doge kneeling left holding banner. Often mint control marks to right (a star/letters).
Obverse inscription: [Name of Doge] D.V.X.
Reverse description: Winged and nimbate lion of St Mark facing within a quadrilobe, holding book of gospels.
Reverse inscription: No legend.

Soldino of Antonio Venier (ANTO.VEN-ERIO.DVX.)

Type 2 c. 1466-74
Doges – Tron, Marcello.

Obverse description: Doge kneeling left holding banner. Often mint control marks to right (a star/letters).
Obverse inscription: [Name of Doge] D.V.X.
Reverse description: Winged and nimbate lion of St Mark facing within a quadrilobe, holding book of gospels.
Reverse inscription: No legend.

Soldino of Antonio Venier (ANTO.VEN-ERIO.DVX.)

Type 2 c. 1466-74
Doges – Tron, Marcello.

Obverse description: Doge kneeling left holding banner. Often mint control marks to right (a star/letters).
Obverse inscription: [Name of Doge] D.V.X.
Reverse description: Winged and nimbate lion of St Mark facing within a quadrilobe, holding book of gospels.
Reverse inscription: No legend.

1340 AD French Jetton

Crown introduced in 1340 by Philip VI (1328-50)

Royal Crown with annulet and rosettes across body of crown

Obv AVE MARIA GRACIA

Rev A-V-E-M

Rev Triple banded straight cross fleuretty

Ref Mitchiner 469

Soldino of Antonio Venier (ANTO.VEN-ERIO.DVX.)

Type 2 c. 1466-74
Doges – Tron, Marcello.

Obverse description: Doge kneeling left holding banner. Often mint control marks to right (a star/letters).
Obverse inscription: [Name of Doge] D.V.X.
Reverse description: Winged and nimbate lion of St Mark facing within a quadrilobe, holding book of gospels.
Reverse inscription: No legend.

Date: Medieval, 13th - 14th century - reported as treasure to museum

Large Medieval knopped silver annular brooch - each knop is decorated with flowers

2.8g, 30.58mm

Unique ID: NMS-D2A387

Similar to examples in Egan and Pritchard (2002, fig. 163 no. 1330 and 1333).

1805 German states Friedrich Wilhelm III - 3 Groschen silver coin

Obv FRID WILHELM III BORUS REX

1215 Henry III hammered silver short cross penny

Obv hENRICVS REX

Rev ** .ON LVNI - London mint

11,000 Stone Age flint scraper

1300-1310 Edward Ist hammered silver penny - Type 10ab

Obv +EDWARD R ANGL DNS hYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

1300-1310 Edward Ist hammered silver penny - Type 10cf

Obv +EDWAR ANGL DNS hYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

1247 Henry III hammered silver voided long cross half penny

Rev /ONC/AN - Canterbury mint

1413-22 Henry V hammered silver half penny

Obv hENRIC'x REX :ANGL'

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

1461 Edward IV hammered silver penny - Durham mint

B at centre of reverse cross

WWI Imperial service badge - Territorial force

The Territorial Force (TF) was created on 1 April 1908 from the old Volunteers and Yeomanry and was a pure home defence force

. In 1910/11 the Government polled units to see if there were members willing to serve overseas in time of crisis

If a unit had 90% of its establishment volunteer, the soubriquet' Imperial Service' was conferred. Prior to the outbreak of WW1 only three Territorial Force infantry battalions met this challenge, the first was the  7th (Imperial Service) Battalion, the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) followed by the  8th (Imperial Service) Battalion, the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) and the 6th (Imperial Service) Battalion, the East Surrey Regiment.

19thC silver livery ring

Irish 1216-1272 Henry III hammered silver voided long cross half penny

Star by the head of Kings scepter - Ref IH31D-015

Obv HENRICVS REX III

Rev V/ION - Moneyer Davi of Dublin mint

1509-23 Henry VIII hammered silver sovereign penny

Durham, Bishop Ruthall - TD by shield

19thC Portuguese copper 10 Reis

Obv PORTVGALIAE ET ALGARBIORUM P REGENS

Rev IOANNES DEI GRATIA

1413- 22 Henry V hammered silver half penny - broken annulets both sides of crown - Type 5

Obv +hENRICx REX ANGL

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

1377 -99 Richard II hammered silver half penny

Obv **x REX ANGLx

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

13.82mm

1300-1310 Edward Ist hammered silver penny - Type 10cf

Obv +EDWAR ANGL DNS hYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

1216 Henry III hammered silver short cross halfpenny

Obv hENRICVS REX

Obv ** ER.ON **

1344 Edward III hammered silver penny - Florin issue

Obv +EDWR ANGL DNS hYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

1792 Coventry copper half penny - Condor token

Obverse; Lady Godiva on horseback, 1792 below, PRO BONO PUBLICO above.

Reverse; Elephant and Castle, COVENTRY HALFPENNY above

Post Medieval cast copper alloy single loop buckle frame.

1500-1650 AD

Cast copper alloy buckle frame 1500 -1700

Cast copper alloy double-looped sub-annular shoe or knee buckle with bevelled internal edge

Circa 1650-1720

1485 - 1509 Henry VII hammered silver half groat - Archb Savage

Keys by neck

Obv *** GRAxREXxANG **

Rev CIVI/TAS/EBO/RACI - York mint

1351-77 Edward III hammered silver half penny - 4th coinage - Type 14 , annulet stops

Obv + EDWARDVS o REX o AN

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON

1247 Henry III hammered silver voided long cross hal penny

Obv hENRICVS REX III

Rev /VID/ON - Moneyer David of London mint

17thC James Tayspill of Colchester Essex hammered copper trade farthing

Ref Norweb 1242

Cleaned up silver Roman

It will probably come as no large surprise that the 2nd - the denarius needing the least cleaning - is Julia Mamaea - you can read a good deal of the legend as-is, the initial "IVLIA" is quite clear.  This precise combination of features on the reverse, "CONCORDIA" with Concord standing left, pouring libation from patera over small lighted altar and holding double cornucopiae; star in left field, is unique to her, so far as I have been able to determine in a quick search of the Severan women.  Also, the hair style is fairly distinctive, too.  Generally the Imperial women each had their own personal style or series of styles and didn't copy each other (except Lucilla who copied her mother, Faustina Jr, with a very round, low-placed bun and otherwise unadorned hair style).
One interesting characteristic is that I don't think that this coin has one of the "regularly used" obverse legends - there are simply too many letters in it for it to end in "AVG" as it appears to do, so this may be some sort of unusual legend variant which isn't recorded in Roman Silver Coins, at any rate.

Mark

1158 -1189 AD Henry II hammered silver penny ' Tealby' cross and crosslet type.

19.10mm,1.34g

- sent to EMC for recording

Many thanks for the excellent images of this find, which I have recorded as EMC 2013.0384.

This is class F, Ipswich, Turstain: probably from the same reverse die as BMC 361, which has a GI mint signature.

Best wishes,

Martin

1199- 1216 John hammered silver short cross half penny

Obv hENRICVS REX

Rev AN+ IOH - Moneyer Iohan of Canterbury mint

13thC Edward hammered silver long cross half penny

Obv EDWA ***

1180-1189 Henry II hammered silver short cross half penny - Class 1a

Obv hENRICVS REX

ReV NDE( + RA - Moneyer Ravdvl of London mint

1216 Henry III hammered silver short cross half penny - Class 8b

Obv hENRICVS REX

Rev + IOHAN - Moneyer Iohan of Canterbury mint

1660-1720 shoe or knee buckle

Stunning c13thC medieval silver seal matrix - Crossed hands and flowers - reported as treasure to museum

Lombardic lettering - Edward type E's and barred A's.

Appears to be be

"Esto Fidelis", which means 'be faithful'

2ndC Roman silver coin sent for ID - cooking to remove crust (Ed)

We will need to see what appears on the obverse - particularly in the legend - before I can be completely certain who this is beyond "an Antonine woman".  It's highly unlikely to be Faustina Sr. since the main body of her coinage is posthumous and the reverse type - PVDICITIA - would be a quality or virtue only of a living woman.  I suspect Faustina Jr. for the following reasons:

The shape of the head and the hair style seem to strongly suggest the Antonine era, and although it could be either Faustina Jr. (issued under Antoninus Pius or Marcus Aurelius), Lucilla or Crispina, the length of the obverse legend suggested under the encrustation is likely only on a coin of Faustina Jr.
Although PVDICITIA is a reverse type which could appear on any Imperial wife's coinage and did, in fact, appear on at least 75% of Imperial wives' coins, in a quick search I found this exact posture of Pudicitia only on a denarius of Faustina Jr.

But we'll have to wait and see what the cooker reveals on the obverse.

Mark

Huge 1stC Roman AS coin in great shape - sent for ID

31.74mm, 15.57g

I'll fire you off a quickly here and get back to you with more detail - this is a Sestertius of Marcus Aurelius as Caesar under Antoninus Pius - he was very young - no beard in evidence - so this is probably right around 138-140 when he was first adopted and elevated.  The reverse shows his wife (I believe - or adoptive mother - as both were named) Faustina portraying "Fecunditas" or "Pudicitia", or some other of the semi-deity personifications of abstract value, and a child - either one of M. Aurelius' children or one of his adoptive-siblings.

This would be part of what is known as "The Dynastic Series" wherin the Antonines all tended to put family members, particularly little children, on the reverses.  One of the Faustinae is portrayed with 6 (my god!) children and infants in arms and gathered around he feet on a sestertius reverse.

Mark

I just realized I had intended to get back to you with some details on this piece.  Too bad it's been in the plowsoil layer so long, if it were not so chipped around the edges, this would be a really decent sestertius.

This is, as I already said, Marcus Aurelius as Caesar under Antoninus Pius.  This piece dates to 148-9 if I am not mistaken. Although enough of the obverse legend is legible to be certain what it is - in this case: AVRELIVS CAE - SAR AVG PII F. Even though this date seems a little late for the beardless portrait, it doesn't seem that this reverse type appears before 148.  The reverse legend - which is mostly all off-flan, unfortunately, leading to whatever uncertainty may be unavoidable - should read TR POT III COS II; PIETAS (in exergue) S - C.  I was hoping I could tell you that the child was an early portrayal of Commodus or Lucilla, but Faustina and Aurelius' 1st child was born in 147.  Lucilla was born in 149, at the end of Aurelius' 3rd Tribunician Powers era - or during the very last days this coin could have been struck bearing the presumed date, but well before she would have been portrayed standing at Pietas side rather than as a babe-in-arms - and Commodus did not come along until 161, so this is an allegorical child of some sort.  Unfortunately, I don't know what the child signifies beyond Pietas' raised right hand "extending her influence over the children of the union", although Pietas can be assumed to be Faustina portrayed as Pietas. 

So, as close as I can come to being sure given the remaining legend fragments, for references this would be RIC II 1281a; BMC 1849; and SRCV 4807.

Mark

1351-77 Edward III hammered silver half penny - 4th coinage - Type 14

Obv + EDWARDVS REX AN

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON

1784 Initialled and decorated silver spoon - maker CH - London

Charles Hougham London

Royal fusilier button ?

Honi soit qui mal y pense (Old French: shame upon him who thinks evil of it)

1247 Henry III hammered silver voided long cross half penny - Class IIIa

Obv hENRICVS REX III

Obv /MO/NC - Moneyer Adam of Carlisle mint

1294-99 Edward Ist hammered silver penny - Egg wasted S - Class 8a

Obv +EDWAR ANGL DNS hYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

1356-1361 Edward III hammered silver penny Pre treaty- Quadrefoil with pellet in centre of reverse cross, large annulet on breast - Archiepiscopal issue - Series G, d

Obv EDWARDVS ****

Rev CIVI/TAS/EBO - York mint

Stunning 13thC seal matrix - hanging pendant type with back suspension loop

+ S CECILIE * PILIOT

Seal of Cecile Piliot

1641-3 Charles 1st hammered silver penny - mintmark 2 dots

1300-1310 Edward Ist hammered silver penny - Closed E, outcurving h- Cross pattee - Crown 1 - Type 10 cf3

Obv +EDWAR ANGL DNS hYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

Medieval Edward hammered silver penny

Obv +EDWR***

Rev CIVI/**/*OR - Canterbury mint

13thC Edward hammered silver penny

Obv ** hYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

Georgian solid gold thimble

4.67g, 22.75mm H

1427 - 1430 Henry VI hammered silver penny - Rosett- Mascule issue (ii) - Quatrefoil with pellet at centre of reverse cross - Satires by hair, Stops are satire and mascule

Obv hENRICVS x REX ANGLIE

Rev CIVI/TAS/EBO/RACI - York mint

Copper half crown( 30 pence) - 1689 James II Irish 'gun metal' emergency coinage

Obv 2 - JACOBVS II DEI GRATIA - Rev 2

Rev Crown and 4 sceptres , XXX above crown, month below

MAG BR FRA ET HIB REX (date)

1344 Edward Ist hammered silver penny - Florin issue

Obv +EDWAR ANGL DNS hYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

1361- 69 Edward III hammered gold qtr noble - Treaty period - Lis in centre of reverse cross - Curule shaped X - Cross potent

Obv + EDWARD DEI GRA REX ANGL

London mint

1.59g, 18.43 mm

1485- 1509 Henry VII hammered silver half groat - Long cross forchee

Archbishop Morton - rosette stops in legend

Rev /TOR/ - Canterbury mint

70BC Morini Boat Tree type Celtic gold qtr stater - sent to CCI for recording

1.45g,12.54mm

Reported as hoard to museum

Trinovantes Celtic gold 1/4 stater 50BC - sent to CCI for recording - reported as potential hoard

0.70g, 13.65mm

70BC Morini Boat Tree type Celtic gold qtr stater - sent to CCI for recording

1.46g, 11.41mm

Reported as hoard to museum

Medieval Edward hammered silver penny

Obv **** DNS hYB

Rev CIVI/TAS/***

1414 - 22 Henry V hammered silver half penny - broken annulets by hair

Obv +hENRIC x REX ANGL

Rev CIVI/TAS/LON/DON - London mint

10- 40 AD Cunobelin Celtic bronze unit sent to CCI for recording .CCI 13.0723

Right facing horse

Late Saxon c10thC stirrup strap mount Class A Type 11a

Sub triangular mount depicts a Lion looking upwards with its front paw raised and tail curled between its legs and over the backESS-7FC982 STIRRUP & ESS-7FCBB7 STIRRUP

1247 Henry III hammered silver voided long cross penny - Class Vc

Obv hENRICVS REX III

Rev WIL/LEM/ONC/ANT - Moneyer Willem of Canterbury mint

2ndC Roman knee brooch

2ndC Roman silver coin - cooking to remove crust - sent to Mark Lehman for initial ID and just resent it to him now the crust is coming off

You know, I'm sure, that with as few definitive features showing (legend letters, etc) as this piece is exhibiting in its current state, this has got to be a guess no more inherently accurate than throwing darts in the dark, but on the basis of the silhouette of the head and the star in the field next to the standing figure on the reverse, it seems like there is a good chance that this is one of the later Severan emperors - Elagabalus or Severus Alexander. 218-222 & 222-235 respectively.
I'll be able to tell you a good bit more, I believe, after this comes out of the cooker.
Mark

This is Elagabalus, definitely.  221 AD, Mint of Rome. 

Reverse which is actually: Providentia standing left, holding rod and cornucopiae, globe at feet - this also changes the references to the following: RIC IV 42; RSC 189b; SRCV 7534.

Obverse: IMP ANTONINVS PIVS AVG. Laureate draped and cuirassed bust right.

Just cleaned up what looked like a crusty bronze and it is a silver washed Roman with great detail - just sent off to Mark Lehman for his views

Well, you weren't, technically speaking, incorrect to call this a "silver Roman" as it was made to be a silver denomination.  Antoninianus (double denarius) or as some folks call them at this point in the 3rd century, "Aurelianianus".  Although Aurelian did make significant reforms which pulled the fragmenting Western Empire together for another 2 centuries or so at a time when everything could have come apart and the descent into feudalism have begun all the earlier, I won't comment on how silly this particular re-naming of the Antoninianus is.  He did reform the coinage, stabilizing the size and purity - and increasing the silver content slightly as well as introducing new silvering techniques which were far more long-lasting.

However, the total silver in it was highly unlikely ever to have been more than about 5% total - and so, unless you want it to come out "orange" like the other antoninianus which you sent the photo of today - I would give it a pass on "cooking".  This particular piece is from one of the successors of Aurelian - one of the so-called Illyrian Emperors - Probus, 276-282 AD.

As far as I can tell - and it's pretty obvious at first glance that not much of the reverse is clearly visible - the reverse type is RESTITVTOR EXERCITI - although it's not altogether impossible that it's RESTITVTOR ORBIS or RESTITVT ORBIS - just hard to tell at this point how the legend ends.  In either case it's one of those 2-figure "presentation" scenes with either (for the ORBIS types) a female figure personifying (? what? - depends on the details we can't see) some allegorical concept presenting a wreath to Probus who stands facing her.  Or, if it's the EXERCITI types, Mars (most likely) presenting a globe - possibly with a figure of Victory atop it - to the emperor.

Probus tended to "get on a kick" with his reverse types and issue dozens of very minor variations in obverse bust, reverse scene, wording and spelling of legends, field marks and exergual lettters, from eight or ten mints, so even when everything is completely clear and visible it's often a chore to figure out exactly which mint any specific variety should be attributed to.  If it's the EXERCITI type, possibly Siscia or Cyzicus - the ORBIS types were common and numerous at all the mints.

Mark

Correction to the last - taking another look at the obverse legend, I am now going to say this is Carus, 282-283 AD. rather than Probus.  Except that he was nowhere nearly so prolific a minter as Probus and this is far more likely to be RESTITVT ORBIS than any of the other possibile reverses I previously named, everything else is still pretty much the same as I said in the last email.

Carus is a good bit scarcer than Probus, too - and neither of them is exactly "over-represented" in the typical range of finds you show me.

Mark

4thc Roman bronze with great detail sent for ID

This is the typical billon restored Centenionalis of either Valerian I or Valens (fairly unlikely, but there is a small possibility it might be Gratian as well).  The reverse type is GLORIA ROMANORVM  with the emperor dragging a captive and carrying a labarum.  The mintmark is for the mint at Siscia - which was enormously prolific in this period.  The RIC for this period requires 6 or 7 pages of charts to list all the variants and combinations of field marks and exergual mint marks for the Centenionales of Siscia from this era.

The exergual marks appear to be fairly simple - BSISC with no field marks. That means it is relatively early in the series and so dates to around 364-368 AD.  Unfortunately I can't be certain who's on the obverse at this point - not enough of the legend is visible, but my guess - given the spacing of the few letters I can see - would be that Valens (364-378 AD) is the more likely possibility.

Mark

Huge Sestersius sent for ID - very unusual obverse.

20.24g, 29.40mm

Chris,

Luckily this is a rather unusual reverse type - ie: only associated with one emperor - so that was a big help in determining which of the bearded 2nd century emperors we're dealing with.  The reverse type is Minerva walking to the right, looking back, and carrying a branch in her right hand, a shield and spear in her left.  The rather long legend none of which appears on this specimen would be MINER AVG P M TR P XIIII IMP VIII COS V P P S - C.

That identifies this one as Commodus and the type dates to around 191, towards the end of his rule when he began to seriously lose it.  Eventually believing himself to be the reincarnation of Hercules, he even went so far as to have himself portrayed on the coinage wearing the Herculean lion-skin headdress al-la Alexander the Great and competed in the wild animal killing events in the arena.  It wasn't too long before he was done-in by a (formerly) trusted retainer as part of a palace intrigue, stabbed in the bath, New Years day, 193.

Mark

Interesting early skier pewter button or Scott of the Antarctic expedition  ?

At any rate, there's not a lot I can say about this piece - I will say I believe it's Hadrian, from the portrait, but as you can see, there is no visble legend and almost nothing at all visible on the reverse.  Hadrian's reign was from 117-138 AD. and he did some construction in your part of the World, If I recall correctly.

Edwardian rose gold hollow stud

0.48g

1670-1685 coin weight - 27 shillings to weigh Portuguese 4000 Reis - moidore

Obv S 27

Simple Script S beaded/toothed border

1670-1685 coin weight - 21 shillings to weigh gold guinea

Obv S 21

Simple Script S beaded/toothed border

1679 Charles II milled silver three pence

1272 Edward 1st hammered silver penny

EDWAR ANGL DNS HYB

Rev CIVITAS LONDON - London mint

Cooked Roman silver sent for ID

Impressive find! By now, however, you should recognize the so-called "Tribute Penny" - it shows Livia(?) seated - and here there is some question as to who was intended, whether an actual person, a deity or a personification, or possibly even an actual person portraying a personification. Livia is the standard guess, however. This type was virtually the only pattern of denarius Tiberius issued during his lengthy reign from 14-37.

I don't have a reference which breaks it down as to assumed dating, but some base dating parameters for these on the style of the portrait and the kind of legs that are on the chair on the reverse. The decorations on the legs of this chair are unlike any I have ever seen on these before, BTW.

What I would personally guess, based on the resemblance to Augustus of the portrait on this piece, that it is from earlier in his reign.  On his very first coins his portrait is virtually indistinguishable from Augustus' since he was somewhat reluctant to assuming the purple in general and feared that if he made too geat of a change in familiar representations of the Imperium he would not be accepted by the people.  It wasn't until later in his reign that his portrait began to take on the more distinctive and "mature" features which seem to have been closer to the way he actually looked.

Mark

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