🥇 BANNER Roman Gold Ring again!!!!!!

[Westfront]

Went back to the No. 1 field today and standing the storm was worth every minute. Barely could hear the signals in the headphones...
This site isn't producing much but the finds are excellent. Gridding the area of the main building yields an ok Sestercius and a stunning ring. Roman gold is very hard to come by and this is the second gold ring from this site!

 

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[CRUSADER]

The question is: If ALA is rigth is the meaning of F a cohort? All letters looks like they have the same gaps. Should the F then needs a bit more gap like ALA F?

Its all guess work at this stage, but they didn't always have gaps when abbreviating.

 

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[FloridaHunter]

Nice find. It looks like the Greek alphabet to me.

1st letter appears to be our modern "L" or "D" if it is a solid triangle.
2nd letter appears t be our modern "I" or "T"
3rd letter again, appears to be our modern "L" or "D" if it is a solid triangle.
4th letter "F"

 

[Silver Searcher]

Dads thoughts on the unbarred A's:

I am sure it is ALA with the As having no cross bar. Silver Searcher may not realise that the Romans often used an inverted V as an A. If they did not then the Greek letter theory would hold good. However, you only have to look at the Domitian coin exampled on Wildwinds to see how the As are inverted Vs. So the ring is likely to be earlier e.g when the Romans used inverted Vs.

I think I have seen enough unbarred latin letters, the amount of hammered I have had over the years. The letters look more Greek than latin.

SS

 

[Imnengr]

Awesome find! Could it be related to the Roman Calvary ALA FLAVIA ? Roman Officer Permanent Collection Ancient Roman Rings about 2/3 of the way down.

 

[Chuck In Oregon]

Congratulations on your wonderful find. I've found Roman before and even one silver Roman coin but gold? Wow. I'm impressed and happy for you.

Chuck

 

[Gfrrt]

awesome finds!

 

[geo4472]

all i can say is wow what great finds

 

[Perichas De La Seca]

Congrats very nice!!!