MD day..WHAT A FIND!!!

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  1. galba68

    galba68 Well-Known Member

    Today, my friend and I was fortunate to find under Celtic fibula, beautiful ceramic pot, 29 cm in diameter..Its very hard to find this kind of pottery in one piece..during the day , I found 3 roman asses, two hadrians and tiberius..
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    galba68, Dec 13, 2018
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  3. Ryro

    Ryro Trying to remove supporter status

    Beautiful pottery! You have a lucky friend.
    I really like the portrait on your coin as well:woot:
     
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  4. ominus1

    ominus1 Well-Known Member

    wow...what finds!:)
     
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  5. Justin Lee

    Justin Lee I learn by doing

    Amazing, galba!
     
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  6. Mat

    Mat Ancient Coincoholic

    Awesome, congrats.
     
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  7. Mike Margolis

    Mike Margolis Well-Known Member

    real nice
     
    Mike Margolis, Dec 13, 2018
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  8. Okidoki

    Okidoki Well-Known Member

    +1
     
    Okidoki, Dec 13, 2018
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  9. Shrews1994

    Shrews1994 Collecting is my passion.

    So you dug a random whole and so happendly found pottery and Roman coins? That's so cool but
    Okay where we're you when you dug this up? That's just unreal. Wish I could dig a whole and find this. Good job on finding this.
     
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  10. Mike Margolis

    Mike Margolis Well-Known Member

    @galba68 is a seasoned technician/professional of using a metal detector and knowing where treasures may be found.
     
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  11. galba68

    galba68 Well-Known Member

    the ceramic pot was below the celtic fibula, my friend felt, during digging, that he have something else..and, I find coins during metal detecting, of course..
     
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  12. Shrews1994

    Shrews1994 Collecting is my passion.

    Sweet! I still need to get a metal detector!
     
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  13. galba68

    galba68 Well-Known Member

    ha ha mike ..good one..dig here, dig there...
     
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  14. ancient coin hunter

    ancient coin hunter 3rd Century Usurper

    Great finds @galba68 - just amazing. Here's one I found by metal detecting in my backyard. Oh wait...just kidding!

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  15. Mike Margolis

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  16. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan 48-year collector Moderator

    WOW- I know some heart rates shot up when that pot was first seen!

    One of my best finds was underneath something else like that. I was on an old plantation site here in Georgia when I dug an old 1870s rimfire rifle cartridge from several inches deep. But I still kept getting a strong signal after it was removed from the hole.

    Another eight or ten inches below the old cartridge, out came a very rare US Light Dragoons belt plate from the War of 1812, which was in rough shape (it was pewter and corroded), but it was perhaps only the second or third intact specimen known. I sold it on eBay for $990, and the dealer who bought it told me he would've gone as high as $1,250.

    Another time I "accidentally" found a very ancient prehistoric (Paleolithic) stone projectile point, many thousands of years old, while digging a rusty nail target from an old churchyard.
     
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  17. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan 48-year collector Moderator

    PS- one day you'll uncover another pot like that - perhaps a little bigger - and the contents will look something like this...

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  18. Theodosius

    Theodosius Fine Style Seeker

    great finds!

    Alas, the only tool that has helped me find large quantities of ancient coins has been a credit card. :)

    John
     
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  19. panzerman

    panzerman Well-Known Member

    I hope you do:happy:
    For me, there is no point getting a metal detector. Where I live you would only find junk. They have been looking for 200+ years on Oak Island off nova Scotia still NOTHING:nailbiting:
    However, where I was born in Germany (Julich) there are great chances of finding Roman/ Medieval/ coins.
    John
    PS: With my luck....probably would only find junk.
     
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  20. dougsmit

    dougsmit Member

    We have seen a major change in the hobby since metal detectors have become commonplace. Imaging what would be found if ceramic or glass could be detected as well. Today we have MRI units that allow us to see inside people in a way not imagined when Xrays were new. I imagine a century from now there will be portable and affordable ground penetrating radar systems that will change the game again.
     
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  21. Michael K

    Michael K Well-Known Member

    And so in the municipality where this was found, archaeological antiquities belong to the finder? Who owns the land? What are the statutes?
    Are there other areas where the ownership would be disputed?
     
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