Farm Shop Field - Day 2........UPDATED

[CRUSADER]

Completely different day & it almost could have been a different field, shows what a difference a few hundred metres makes! Spent 5 hours (10 man hours), digging lots of lead & a fair few buttons but very little else.
I saved the day with a lovely Halfpenny of Richard II 1377-99

We had our first large scrappy from this field, funny as it boarders a Roman road.

 

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[shaun7]

Re: Farm Shop Field - Day 2........

Completely different day & it almost could have been a different field, shows what a difference a few hundred metres makes! Spent 5 hours (10 man hours), digging lots of lead & a fair few buttons but very little else.
I saved the day with a lovely Halfpenny of Richard II 1377-99

We had our first large scrappy from this field, funny as it boarders a Roman road.

that looks like a good day to me, i know you've had worse

the hammered is beautiful

 

[Silver Searcher]

Re: Farm Shop Field - Day 2........

Loverly hammered

 

[DMN]

Re: Farm Shop Field - Day 2........

So, what do you do with the coins which are more recent. I notice you and Shaun and a few of the others in England get those old coins of 'recent' vintage (18th and 19the cent. +) but they seem to be worn. Do you make any efforts to clean them or do they sit in a box waiting and accumulating?

I will always get a kick out of the fact you gents get those 6-, 7-, 800+ yr old coins. To see them in generally pristine condition is even more amazing.

 

[CRUSADER]

Re: Farm Shop Field - Day 2........

So, what do you do with the coins which are more recent. I notice you and Shaun and a few of the others in England get those old coins of 'recent' vintage (18th and 19the cent. +) but they seem to be worn. Do you make any efforts to clean them or do they sit in a box waiting and accumulating?

I will always get a kick out of the fact you gents get those 6-, 7-, 800+ yr old coins. To see them in generally pristine condition is even more amazing.

The blank or worn Georgian coppers get recycled, sold as scrap. The rest sit in various boxes. No I never bother cleaning them, most of them are past it anyways.

Yes to get a very thin hammered silver coin from a ploughed field in this condition is indeed a small miracle.

 

[woody50]

Re: Farm Shop Field - Day 2........

Neat Hammered Cru! Also see quite a few bag seals, and yes, it is funny that you don't find more roman coins there....

 

[DANGLANGLEY]

Re: Farm Shop Field - Day 2........

Do you make any efforts to clean them or do they sit in a box waiting and accumulating?

The blank or worn Georgian coppers get recycled, sold as scrap. The rest sit in various boxes. No I never bother cleaning them, most of them are past it anyways.

That was something I have been meaning to ask. Also, have you ever considered selling the ones that you have extras of? I bet you could make quite a bit selling them.

DANGLANGLEY

 

[CRUSADER]

Re: Farm Shop Field - Day 2........

Do you make any efforts to clean them or do they sit in a box waiting and accumulating?

The blank or worn Georgian coppers get recycled, sold as scrap. The rest sit in various boxes. No I never bother cleaning them, most of them are past it anyways.

That was something I have been meaning to ask. Also, have you ever considered selling the ones that you have extras of? I bet you could make quite a bit selling them.

DANGLANGLEY

Yes, I do sell bulk lots of coins with some details on them.

 

[allen]

Re: Farm Shop Field - Day 2........

congrats on that sweet old silver
good job on those neat relics

 

[robfinds]

Re: Farm Shop Field - Day 2........

Nice Richard 11 hammered Cru ru

 

[Ed-NH]

Re: Farm Shop Field - Day 2........

That hammered is just fantastic! I like the buckle bits too. Congrats on a successful day.

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Re: Farm Shop Field - Day 2........

Good to see you have scrounged up some land to detect and making some finds, hard to get on the fields now. HH, Mike

 

[davesx]

Re: Farm Shop Field - Day 2........

Great little hammered, lost before they got the clippers out.
Dave.

 

[CRUSADER]

UPDATED:

Had time to look in the album & this is my first Richard II Halfpenny, I have 2 Pennies of this king, but this is a first