🥇 BANNER 2000 YEAR OLD GOLD COIN...UPDATE

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Today was my last day off as I return to work tomorrow (after an extended X-Mas Holiday :wink: ). Thankfully there was a break in the wet & very windy weather. I'm glad I didn't try yesterday, as the only road/lane to the field had a huge tree blown across it (cut & cleared now), must have been yesterday which would have blocked my way back with the bike. :o
I spent 4 hours on my own continuing the rather difficult land I started to grid recently. I was having a bad few hours & my mind was dreaming up a likely good find from this field, the best I was hoping for was a complete Medieval Buckle. You never expect a Gold Coin but it was furthest from my mind & I had no clues that this field was going to do anything this good :o It's taken Dad & I over 2 years to find another Gold Coin, but I'm so glad 2012 is made already, so the pressure is off for the rest of the year :laughing7:

Other finds of the day:
4 Scrappy Roman Coins
2 Lead Tokens
Tudor Clothes Fastener (Rose)
Leather Mount (circa 17th C) – Man in the moon & star to right
17th C Lead Cap (powder flask)

There are less than 50 Recorded examples of this type :headbang:
Celtic Gold Quarter Stater
CUNOBELINE
AD10-20AD
Wild Type Horse Right

Corn Ear
VA-1935.01
CA[MV]
Minted - Camulodunum (Colchester)

Let me tell you, I was so pleased with the coin, it got a Rex Hunt Kiss (but no throwing back) :laughing9: :blob8:

My first ever Celtic Gold Coin (some years ago) was this very same type, however it was a full Stater & this is a Quarter. So now I have the full set 8) - I pictured it next to my first coin to show how much smaller this one is :icon_thumright:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Celtic-Catuvellauni-gold-quarter-stater-Wild-type-/120696388043
See one listed for sale above.
 

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Re: 2000 YEAR OLD GOLD COIN...

Very nice shiney! Way to set the bar high this early in the year!
 

Re: 2000 YEAR OLD GOLD COIN...

Banner!
 

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:hello2: Absolutely beautiful coin you got there mate. Have a fantastic 2012 ............. even if you find nothing else this year it wouldn't matter...yer made...lol. Congrats again on salvaging an important piece of history.....banner without doubt :blob7:
 

Re: 2000 YEAR OLD GOLD COIN...

Wow! Any gold coin is good! Especially that! AWESOME FIND!!!
 

Re: 2000 YEAR OLD GOLD COIN...

Have to say Crusader, your persistence pays off. And what a nice way to clear that melancholy feeling when you have a handful of nothing!
Congrats to you. Hope they don't define it as "treasure". It would be nice for you to keep it rather than wait a year or so and then never see again be cause it went to catalogue in the British Museum.
 

Re: 2000 YEAR OLD GOLD COIN...

BooYEAH! Great find! Looks good on the banner!
 

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Thats a keeper :headbang:
 

Re: 2000 YEAR OLD GOLD COIN...

WOW !!
Cru, that is just awesome.
If there is a "Made the Banner" record, do you own it?
Mark
 

Re: 2000 YEAR OLD GOLD COIN...

:headbang: late getting to this, but great find.
 

Re: 2000 YEAR OLD GOLD COIN...

wow fantastic find. that is beautiful.

I'm very envious of the digs you guys have.

Congrats

:icon_thumleft:
 

Re: 2000 YEAR OLD GOLD COIN...

wow since i have joined t-net i have sat back and watched all the stuff you pull from the ground in amazement. only dreaming of digging the kind of finds you do. but living in canada that will never happen. so i instead dream of finding gold rings (haven't found one yet! but have found many pull tabs)
i have found some neat items but nothing that compares to your finds. congrats and thanks for sharing your finds with us
 

Re: 2000 YEAR OLD GOLD COIN...

Spectacular find!
Hope the rest of 2012 is as good to you.
 

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CRUSADER said:
nuggy said:
Thanks I knew someone else had predicted it (couldn't remember who). Because I remember reading it & thinking, not a chance on this land :laughing9: How wrong can I be...

Hey it was an easy prediction really - Confucius says "he who spend time researching diligently, and then puts the coil over the ground for long hours will get the gold". Well maybe it wasn't Confucius, but it was some wise man.

Have a awesome 2012 Nuggy
 

Re: 2000 YEAR OLD GOLD COIN...

Wow, that is tiny! Congrats!!!!
 

Re: 2000 YEAR OLD GOLD COIN...

What a Beaut! Droooooooollll... :o
 

Re: 2000 YEAR OLD GOLD COIN...

Jolly good show :headbang: Beautiful coin Jim
 

Re: 2000 YEAR OLD GOLD COIN...

Congrats on a find most of us can only dream about! Pretty soon your banner finds will be 2 pages long! :laughing7: The Hogge
 

Re: 2000 YEAR OLD GOLD COIN...

Awesome. what a way to start off the year!
 

Re: 2000 YEAR OLD GOLD COIN...

You almost had me feeling bad for you cause you hadn't found a gold in so long. That is a beautiful coin!!!! Congratulations man, you deserve it!!! - Daniel
 

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