UK cut quarter hammered coins

I have found several cut quarter hammered coins while metal detecting here in the UK. Are there any specialist collectors or websites for such items? My latest such finds are shown below. Cut quarters of Stephen, Ethelred 2nd long cross and helmet types.

 

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Cool items. I also detect but here in the States. No hammered Silve for me. Oldest silver coin is a worn 1/2 reale.

 

Hi SensibleSal, Thanks for your kind comments. Out of interest, how old is your half reale and what realistically are the oldest coins you could expect to find where you are located? Where I live here in Somerset in the UK, the oldest coins tend to be Iron Age or Roman. My oldest coin find is this M. Furius roman republican denarius dating to 119bc .

 

Hi @David Woodhouse . First step with any hammered English coins is to own English Hammered Coinage" by J.J. North. This is the seminal work and essential. I am probably teaching my grandmother to suck eggs....
I collect hammered coins in the UK and find cut coins extremely frustrating as my time is limited. I once did a search by taking an image , posting it and then running a Google QR search and it correctly identified the coin from a quadrant.
Recently I read about Roman coins being discovered in the USA, clearly not lost by Romans but maybe part of traders bullion.
Your denarius is extraordinarily early for a UK find predating occupation by decades.
Well done on a fantastic find!
I live 4 hours drive from you by road but only 20 miles by sea!