More Bronzes

TORRERO

30+ YEARS, XP DEUS I & II ARE MY GO TO MACHINES
Nov 17, 2004
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XP DEUS I & II
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting

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This small beautiful coin dug in Spain does not appear to be Roman,
Maybe someone can give me insights as to its origin and maybe value ?
I called this my "Chess Piece" coin !! for obvious reasons ... but I have no Idea who claims this beauty.
Wow. That does look archaic and unlike any Roman coin I've seen though I know the early republican coins features animal motifs and Spain was conquered pretty early. If you do manage to identify it please let us know, I'm going to have a search myself for at least similar types.
Out of interest what part of Spain are you detecting?
Would love to have a search there, I lived in Majorca for a few of years in the mid 90's but I was in my 20's then and metal detecting would have bored the life out of me.
So much history though with Moorish artefacts like the coin you found recently, where I lived was Alcudia the Al bit being a Arabic influence, but Phoenicians, Greeks, visigoths.....
Maybe next year when im on holiday in Palma Nova I'll get a chance but I'm unlikely to get my detector through the airport. Not because of the authorities but becuase if my Missus saw it she would break it in half 😆
 

Out of interest what part of Spain are you detecting?
WAS detecting... All of these coins came from Spain when I was stationed there in the 90's
I returned from Spain in 1996 and have not been back..
Almost ALL these coins, Spanish-Arabic-Roman and anything else were dug within 100 miles of Puerto De Sainta Maria
outside of Cadiz and Jerez de la frontera, South of Seville Spain.

I don't know the laws now but even back then we were sometimes run off of places by the Guardia Civil...
 

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