Found Roman Silver Today

Today was a good detecting day. My son and i went out to a really nice forest not far from our home, where we had never detected before. 2 hours of searching yielded the usual assortment of old buttons, bullets, and modern coins, AND my first roman silver in many years- a denarius of Trajan with Victoria seated on the reverse. I have not cleaned it so you can see what they look like when they come out of the earth after 1800 years. We also found a 1 gulden piece from Wuerttemberg, second in 2 weeks. I am very happy with the denarius, it is always impressive to find a memento from the distant past.
Hope you enjoy,
Eduard

 

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Those are great finds, you seem to be hitting some productive areas lately.

 

yeah, nice find! another reason for me to get a medal detector, not that i'll find roman coins here, but i know a guy who found some double eagles before.

 

nice find! congrats!

 

wow..., that trajan is going to clean up nice....grats and I must tell you I am green with envy

 

Sweet finds Eduard! :thumb:

You are so lucky to live where so much history is waiting to be found.

Ribbit

 

that gulden might clean up nicely as well..its looks to be in okay shape for a coin buried for a good long time

 

Thank you all for your comments.

Wanted to show you guys how the Denarius cleaned up. I only used water, nothing else and it cleaned up pretty good. This is only the fourth denarius i have ever found, so they are not that common a find, at least for me. I am really excited with it. We could not believe when we found it yesterday.

Let us see what the next few outings will bring, i am going thru a streak of good luck at the moment! 7 silver in just 5-6 weeks, and a very rare copper 2 pfennig as well.

 

oh yeah...that cleaned up great...when you clean up the gulden...post it if you feel like it, I wouldnt mind seeing how it cleans up...

 

That realy does look lovely, what a great find :bow:

 

find some gold next !

 

Randy, i already have!

 

:hail: thats cool.


whats your favorate coin you've found?

 

Why wasn't the denarius black when he pulled it out of the ground? I thought that stuff would all tarnish pretty quick?

 

AMAZING finds... wow... I need to buy a metal detector and move to europe ASAP!!!!

 

I wanted to thank Ardatirion for idenfying the Roman coin i found a few weeks ago as being from Lyon. It has been soaking in olive oil, and slowly, slowly, some more detail is starting to show. Most of the name is visible, and seems to be a Constantinus. I will continue to soak it, see if it improves.

Another pleasant surprise was what i thought was a blank disk of metal, which i also had in olive oil, and this tiny object has revealed itself as being a coin as well! It has a radiate head on the obverse (Sol?), and as yet unidentifed on the reverse.

Lastly, the two 1-gulden coins from Wuerttemberg i found, are now both cleaned. They turned out OK i think after some more or less gentle cleaning.
Regards,
Eduard

 

Eduard,

Those are all very nice finds! Congrats! I bet your son was really excited when you found them. Please keep us apprised of more new finds and thanks for sharing!


Frank

 

That other ancient is an excellent barbarous imitation from the 3rd century AD. These were produced primarily between the reigns of Gallienus and Probus.

 

Ardatirion, thank again for identifying the smaller coin. The reverse shows very little detail at the moment. Hopefully a few more weeks in olive oil will reval more detail.

Frank, yes, my son was extremely excited! He was jumping up and down in the middle of the woods.
In fact, i felt a bit sorry for him because when i detected the signal for what turned out to be the denarius, i offered for him to dig it up. But he was busy digging up his own signal so declined. His signal turned out to be trash. So he missed the beautiful experience of retrieving a shiny silver disk flopping out of the earth. And this happened again a while later when i detected the 1-gulden coin......poor lad!
Next time...

 

VERY, nice finds!! I really like that denarius, congrats!! :thumb:

Phoenix