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Thank you 🙂  It's great to walk over a coin that nobody has held for close to 1800 years.  I only find about one denarius per year so I will treasure it, just like the others I have.

Thank you. That looks correct. 👍

I found this today in Lincolnshire, England. I must confess that I don't recognise the ruler. It is a shame  it is a little debased which has become corroded. Can anyone identify it please?

James Ist

Edward IV Groat

One of my Scottish

I don't but before they are cleaned it is hard to judge how they turn out. I agree, surely it was a mistake not to keep my 1a.

22 minutes ago, John Conduitt said:

Very interesting. I love the photos, it really brings it to life. It must have been a little awkward with the farm workers around!

What proportion of the 2800 are left?

Probably about 2500 John

As this thread is about British hoards here is my own favourite coin from the Rauceby Hoard.   It has a couple of special things about it.  Firstly it is the only LON coin with an unbroken POPVLI, secondly the LON is not horizontal which I like.  It also has plenty of silvering.  I believe it will be a plate coin in the next edition of 'The London Mint of Constantius and Constantine'.   It is, of course, the first of the LON coins minted.

On 8/6/2022 at 3:05 PM, Victor_Clark said:

 

"Please note that this hoard [Rauceby Hoard] was excavated; a full report on the excavations is held by the Historic Environment Record, Lincoln."

https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/857468

Actually the main hoard was not excavated - the empty pot was excavated.  All the coins were removed by the finder (me) and taken away to safety, all 30Kg, in my rucksack. All the coins were handed over to the County Finds Officer on the next working day, two weeks later an excavation removed the broken pot and found a second group of 10 much earlier coins.  It was not possible to leave the main hoard in situ because the field was being harvested and several farm workers saw the hoard and it's location.  The British Museum had all the coins from 2017 to 2021 and each type was photographed in an uncleaned state. In some cases there were over 60 similar coins in the hoard eg RIC VI 6b so not all were photographed.  These images of rare types have been shared within the numismatic academia.

The BM selected about 10% of the hoard to retain (gap fillers, unique and rare types). These were independently valued by the TVC and they rewarded the finders and land owner. Nearly 2800 were disclaimed!  My Rauceby Hoard coins now appear on Ebay, Roma, Naville and CNG and I am pleased that these pieces of history end up in the hands of enthusiasts everywhere.

With hindsight perhaps I could have stored all my sold coin images.  I probably have pictures of about 80% of the 180 I have already sold, in my defence I am a terrible coin photographer, as my ebay pages demonstrate. 

I will put in a minimum bid early on in case it slips through 🤞 and place my maximum bid in the last few seconds. 

I'm based in the UK. I sold four Roman coins on ebay to a customer in Italy which took 26 days to arrive, using Royal Mail/USPS. Pretty poor service. Last Sunday I posted two Roman coins to another ebay customer in Toronto, Canada. This time using Fedex and another local courier service to get it to the Fedex hub near London. It was delivered on Wednesday, taking under four days to arrive. Well done Fedex! 

Maximian. Trier. 289AD. RIC VI 288. 

IMP MAXIMIANVS P F AVG: Bust of Maximian, laureate, helmeted, cuirassed, left, holding sceptre in right hand and shield in left hand

GENIO POPV-LI ROMANI or GENIO POP-VLI ROMANI: Genius, wearing modius, nude, chlamys draped over left shoulder, standing left, holding patera in right hand and cornucopiae in left hand

Galerius. Lyon mint. 303AD

MAXIMIANVS NOB C Bust of Galerius, laureate, cuirassed, left

GENIO POP-VLI ROMANI or GENIO POPV-LI ROMANI: Genius, wearing modius, nude, chlamys draped over left shoulder, standing left, holding patera in right hand and cornucopiae in left hand

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