Roman Wood Site - Day 4...

[CRUSADER]

Although I thought I had finished on this field for this year I decided to extend the edges & pick up any last scatter. I'm gald I did. (4.5 Hours on my own)

13 Roman Bronzes - the best 2 (horse reverses, best album coins of this type) were found by a hunch I had, I had found 1 coin in a thin tree line between 2 fields that had Roman Sites & I remembered I had not tried the grass strip on the edge of the field.

Roman mini Axe Head - for chopping tiny trees (only my 2nd good one)

Roman Nails etc...

 

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[Silver Searcher]

Wildwinds has the first coin listed as Ric Vol1 141V AD 310-312......Constantine I AE follis, 310-312 AD. London. CONSTANTINVS AVG, helmeted and cuirassed bust left, spear over shoulder, shield on left arm / ADVENTVS AVG, Constantine on horseback, riding left, right hand raised, left holding spear upwards, horse pawing seated captive to left. Star in right field. Mintmark PLN. RIC VI Londinium 141 var (unlisted bust type for this series).

I checked the text to see what it sold for, but alass there was no link to it. I could only find one listed on the site, A very nice find

SS

 

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[bill from lachine]

Crusader,

Nice mix of old finds as usual.....since I'm a sucker for the oddball finds I'd have to go with your minnie me axe as the best of the lot....lol.

Regards + HH

Bill

 

[Silver Searcher]

Crusader,

Nice mix of old finds as usual.....since I'm a sucker for the oddball finds I'd have to go with your minnie me axe as the best of the lot....lol.

Regards + HH

Bill

You know I got carried away with the two scarse coins, and forgot about the axe, Votive tools and weapons were made to be placed in sacred pools and other locations, in order to win the favour of the supernatural powers which were believed to be present. So perhaps you are close to a temple site

SS

 

[stewielouie]

Sweet coins!! Congrats!

 

[hammered]

Nice one Cru, you seem to find as many roman coins as I find utility buttons.


hammered

 

[CRUSADER]

You know I got carried away with the two scarse coins, and forgot about the axe, Votive tools and weapons were made to be placed in sacred pools and other locations, in order to win the favour of the supernatural powers which were believed to be present. So perhaps you are close to a temple site

SS

We are in a very special area that has been in use since the Iron Age & then finished right after the Roman's left. This site is part of 4 very close sites, one of which is the field we call Brooch Field. There is no obivious spring or pond but it might be under recent development. The area is just off a main Roman Road & was visited by Soldiers. (this is the same field as the Panther Head)

 

[CRUSADER]

Wildwinds has the first coin listed as Ric Vol1 141V AD 310-312......Constantine I AE follis, 310-312 AD. London. CONSTANTINVS AVG, helmeted and cuirassed bust left, spear over shoulder, shield on left arm / ADVENTVS AVG, Constantine on horseback, riding left, right hand raised, left holding spear upwards, horse pawing seated captive to left. Star in right field. Mintmark PLN. RIC VI Londinium 141 var (unlisted bust type for this series).

I checked the text to see what it sold for, but alass there was no link to it. I could only find one listed on the site, A very nice find

SS

Thanks
As we know RIC is an old series of Volumes & many coins have been found by us detectorist since, so they will be not as rare as indicated. However, mine are pretty good ground finds (condition wise) & I still think they will be in the scrace bracket.

 

[Silver Searcher]

Thanks
As we know RIC is an old series of Volumes & many coins have been found by us detectorist since, so they will be not as rare as indicated. However, mine are pretty good ground finds (condition wise) & I still think they will be in the scrace bracket.

The text is from 2010, so I doubt if there has been many since then, if not any. It would be interesting to see if any turn up on outher coin sites, and in that condition it would make a scarse coin, very desirable.

SS

 

[CRUSADER]

Noteworthy:

Look at the 2 coins carefully, they are the same denomination, produced at the same Mint, by the same Emporer, only about 2 years apart, yet one is much smaller in size & weight. It shows how rapidly coins could depreciated as the decline of the Empire began.
For an interesting read on one of the best known Emporers, see below:
Emperor Constantine

 

[CRUSADER]

The text is from 2010, so I doubt if there has been many since then, if not any. It would be interesting to see if any turn up on outher coin sites, and in that condition it would make a scarse coin, very desirable.

SS

Do you mean on wildwinds (the date is when they got permission to use the image/data)?:

'Constantine I AE follis, 310-312 AD. London. Obv: CONSTANTINVS AVG, helmeted and cuirassed bust left, spear over shoulder, shield on left arm. Rev: ADVENTVS AVG, Constantine on horseback, riding left, right hand raised, left holding spear upwards, horse pawing seated captive to left. Star in right field. Mintmark PLN. RIC VI Londinium 141 var (unlisted bust type for this series). Courtesy of Chip Gruszczinski, Aug, 2010.'

If so the above is missing a CONSTANTINVS 'P' AVG. I don't think they have an exact one of mine on that site. I was talking about when RIC was published.

However, as Wildwinds have no examples, it's a great sign.

 

[HISPAN]

three coins more for their album!

 

[birdman]

As always ,I am blown away on your daily finds.