Middle Anglo-Saxon Site - Day 3....

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We are now someway out of the best area, but there is enough around to hold our interest. Dad got an hammered early in his short hunt of less than 2 hours, & I only did 3.

2 Jettons
2 Rose Farthings
18th C Silver Button - scrace find
WWI era Button - can't ID it, but its one I need
Will III Love Token (Dad got one last time & I got this one, role reversal on the hammered as well...lol)
Henry III Cut halfpenny
bits....

 

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[stefen]

Middle Anglo-Saxon is historically what dates?

And the love token coin dates are?

Thanks
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[Argentium]

That's gotta be a bit unusual to find silver love tokens in successive hunts on the same field ! Are they almost always made of
a silver sixpence ? Over here they were popular from about 1850's to 1890's - and were more often than not engraved with
initials or perhaps a brief inscription. I've seen them made from dimes & quarters and I purchased a Victorian half sovereign
(1869) that has the word Mother engraved on the obverse - it was a pendant now missing the loop up top . Nice Finds .

 

[CRUSADER]

Middle Anglo-Saxon is historically what dates?

And the love token coin dates are?

Thanks

7-9th C AD - Hard period to find, only Early Saxon is harder.

This was was made in the late 1700s, as its a smooth sixpence.(although some thing they were deliberately smoothed) Poorer classes used copper & very rarely gold is used, but those ones tend to be engraved & not crooked like the more common type.

 

[CRUSADER]

That's gotta be a bit unusual to find silver love tokens in successive hunts on the same field ! Are they almost always made of
a silver sixpence ? Over here they were popular from about 1850's to 1890's - and were more often than not engraved with
initials or perhaps a brief inscription. I've seen them made from dimes & quarters and I purchased a Victorian half sovereign
(1869) that has the word Mother engraved on the obverse - it was a pendant now missing the loop up top . Nice Finds .

The custom of giving a bent coin as a love-token is known from the 17th century in England. The coins were usually smoothed to obliterate the monarch’s head and then bent twice; sometimes they were engraved with initials or symbols such as hearts or knots. If the sweetheart accepted the youth's advances she kept the token; if not she disposed of the coin. The tradition is referred to in the children's rhyme "There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile, he found a crooked sixpence on a crooked stile."

PS. It is unusual, in fact this is the 4th one from the bottom of this field. Might suggest the girls are chucking them from the old path into the field, or 1 fussy girl.............lol

 

[Argentium]

That's very funny - "One fussy girl chucking them ..." Thank's for that !