🥇 BANNER 1586 Elizabeth I Hammered Sixpence

[toasted]

Still in disbelief right now after tonights hunt at my best site for early stuff. Accomplished two things I never really thought I had much chance of doing. A hammered English silver and a 16th century one at that It also appears to have been bent like what they call love tokens over in England. Thanks for looking and so glad I could share my excitement with everyone

 

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[Gene Mean]

Congrats on a great recovery! That should pump you up for a while!

 

[Noah_D]

Woah. That is just amazing. Thanks for sharing!

 

[Erik in NJ]

Fantastic! Yes that is an English love token for sure. I found one made out of a silver six pence in England, but finding one here is extremely rare.

 

[RabidCaveman]

Wow!!!! Excellent find!

 

[Mudflap]

Wow! What a find!

 

[mikefromIllinois]

Incredible. Finding a 1500's coin in the U.S. Congrats.

 

[mindcrime1988]

Man I love those hammered coins. Congrats.

 

[Aureus]

Amazing coin! Banner!

 

[Silver Tree Chaser]

16th century coin - not many of those turning up in the US. Big congrats. Big respect for an impressive recovery. Use for a love token is all the more impressive. Voting banner as well.

 

[toasted]

Amazing coin! Banner!

16th century coin - not many of those turning up in the US. Big congrats. Big respect for an impressive recovery. Use for a love token is all the more impressive. Voting banner as well.

Thanks for the votes. Cleaned it up a bit more so that the date really pops and added that pic to original post. You can clearly see Elizabeth on the obverse but she is pretty smooth. I believe that is pretty common on the Elizabeths

 

[smokeythecat]

A true beauty! There aren't that many places still left to find these in the US.

 

[Truth]

Omg CONGRATULATIONS Toasted!!!! That is just simply amazing. Wow way to make up for lost time. I’m totally freaking out for you16th century hammered in US soil in AMAZING. I tip my hat to you [emoji145]

How many times can I say BANNER!!!!!!

 

[Truth]

I’m trying to I’m trying to vote for you for a banner except I don’t have a laptop and all I have is a cell phone right now. I go through Tapatalk so I went online on my phone and went through treasure net that way but it doesn’t show a banner button. So please please please moderators either tell me what I’m doing wrong Or push that banner for me please

 

[Centsless Detecting]

And my wife wonders why I want to move out east... That's super awesome. I've never voted for banner before but I will now.. Huge congratulations on a 1500s silver on the WRONG side of the pond

 

[pa-dirt_nc-sand]

Congrats on a truly amazing banner find!

 

[relicmeister]

Fantastic! Yes that is an English love token for sure. I found one made out of a copper coin in England, but finding one here is extremely rare.

Why would one be found here at all? Colonial coin collector?

 

[Erik in NJ]

Typically very worn coins were used for love tokens for some reason. Mine was a very worn 6 pence.

Thanks for the votes. Cleaned it up a bit more so that the date really pops and added that pic to original post. You can clearly see Elizabeth on the obverse but she is pretty smooth. I believe that is pretty common on the Elizabeths

 

[Erik in NJ]

Why would one be found here at all? Colonial coin collector?

Why would anything be found anywhere? Someone at some time lost it. I'm assuming it wasn't a contemporary drop and that the coin was 100 or 200 years old when dropped--I'm assuming it wasn't a recent drop.

Toasted will have to tell us what types of finds were in its vicinity to get an approx date of loss.

 

[CRUSADER]

BIG CONGRATS

On a coin that is really hard to find in the US.

You are right its a Love Token. Hammered Love Tokens do turn up but they are much less common than the later ones. So, its a double whammy.

As a Love Token it's a little more easy to guess why someone hung onto it, probably with them on the sea crossing. Hammered coins stayed in circulation for a long time, so tough to guess when it was lost. Plus making it into a Love Token took it out of circulation, so theirs an added layer there.