Strange black coin found last week

[woody50]

Found this coin on a field in England last week, didn't even know it was a coin until I was cleaning up the finds today.
Or at least I think its a coin.....

Specs -
Mass : 1.76g
Dimensions : 19mm (The chips appears to be broken off during production, color is continuous)
Color: a deep black patina, very hard to make a photo....
Material: it is a metal, normal weight. There is no place on the coin where I can see what sort of metal is under the patina, so deep is the patina.

Any ideas anyone?

 

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[PBK]

Looks like a Celtic potin, c. 200-150 B.C.

Compare it to the one shown at:

http://hillsdaledigital.cdmhost.com...SOROOT=/p4030coll6&CISOPTR=11&CISOBOX=1&REC=3

 

[woody50]

Looks like a Celtic potin, c. 200 B.C.

http://hillsdaledigital.cdmhost.com...SOROOT=/p4030coll6&CISOPTR=11&CISOBOX=1&REC=3

Wow PBK, did not even think about that, although the area is roman (roman road, villa, tumulus) and Celtic is often found
nearby those areas. Thanks much....!

 

[Angelo]

PBK...Why did it take you 4 minutes to ID? Watching the Tea Water Boil?

Nice One!!

Tony

 

[shaun7]

hello woody

was that found where you were staying ?

thats an incredible find nice one!

 

[dex378]

Wow, oldie !!!!

 

[TimC]

Fantastic find. WTG

TimC

 

[CRUSADER]

That Potin is in amazing condition. I have never had 1 & you got it in 1 week

 

[shaun7]

That Potin is in amazing condition. I have never had 1 & you got it in 1 week

to be fair thats about four of your weeks and ten of mine

 

[CRUSADER]

That Potin is in amazing condition. I have never had 1 & you got it in 1 week

to be fair thats about four of your weeks and ten of mine

Yeah, but you would have the best iron nail collection.

 

[B|lker]

Awsome digs.

Theres no way i would find anything like that on this rock.

 

[woody50]

Awsome digs.

Theres no way i would find anything like that on this rock.

Which rock is that B|lker?

 

[woody50]

hello woody

was that found where you were staying ?

thats an incredible find nice one!

Hi Shaun, yes I found it on that dense/ heavy/ sticky/ gummy/ 'hard as a rock when dry'/ clay soil...soil?, at the place the prof and I were staying. I remember it because, just like the fields by the Cru, I found a bunch of buttons, and I remember saying to myself a funny black button, but at least one with a little pattern on it; better than all the plain ones. I guess I should take my reading glasses with me, but just like many I always think I don't need them!

But before this find never really had seen one, and this one is real funny, completly BLACK as the night is. I talked last night with one of my searching buddies and he had also found one a time ago, but that one looked just like a normal coin.

DOES anyone know, are the Potins brons/copper/silver And have any of you every found a coin with real BLACK patina? (I had not).

 

[CRUSADER]

hello woody

was that found where you were staying ?

thats an incredible find nice one!

Hi Shaun, yes I found it on that dense/ heavy/ sticky/ gummy/ 'hard as a rock when dry'/ clay soil...soil?, at the place the prof and I were staying. I remember it because, just like the fields by the Cru, I found a bunch of buttons, and I remember saying to myself a funny black button, but at least one with a little pattern on it; better than all the plain ones. I guess I should take my reading glasses with me, but just like many I always think I don't need them!

But before this find never really had seen one, and this one is real funny, completly BLACK as the night is. I talked last night with one of my searching buddies and he had also found one a time ago, but that one looked just like a normal coin.

DOES anyone know, are the Potins brons/copper/silver And have any of you every found a coin with real BLACK patina? (I had not).

These coins are traditionally known as potins, from the French term for a bronze alloy with a high (above 25%) tin content; cast bronze is perhaps a better description, since their tin content is usually not that high.

Taken from this site:
http://web.arch.ox.ac.uk/coins/cci9.htm

 

[woody50]

Thanks for the info Cru!

 

[shaun7]

i'll bet your glad you took the time to clean that"button"

is that your oldest coin woody?

 

[woody50]

i'll bet your glad you took the time to clean that"button"

is that your oldest coin woody?

Hi Shaun, yes I guess it is!