Thanks for your reply Panzer man and the coin in the photo is gorgeous. I totally agree that when additional coins appear on the scene they...
Thank you The Eidolon and Scottishmoney for your replies and the photos of your cut coins. Being a Scot myself, who was born in Glasgow but now...
Good point Heavymetal. However, it doesn't resemble the versions made by Lauer which look like the original milled coins. My example is very thin...
Mr Numismatist, good call. I weighed 8 coins separately and all came in around 1.3-1.4g but the suspect coin weighed 0.9g. As you say it may be...
I don't understand why the detail on these 2 examples are convex rather than concave like the first. All 3 coins were issued in consecutive years...
I found the silver 3d below while metal detecting about 30 years ago. I am hoping that someone can tell me why the detail on the coin is concave...
This is more like what I think is a fragment. The centre portion of a Cnut pointed helmet type where the whole of the outer has gone.[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
PaddyB, I slightly disagree with you description of the Harold in that it was intentionally cut in half then sustained some edge damage. I would...
Good point GDJSMP. I'm surprised there isn't already a standard set of definitions such that everyone's talking the same language to improve...
Following on from my previous post about cut coins and fragments, at what point would you consider that a coin has become a fragment. I have...
Spark 1951, thanks for your comment. As you say, identification is key and it sometimes requires quite a bit of detective work to get a result....
They are all English with the earliest being an 11th century King Cnut through to A 16th century Henry 8th.
I often find the remains of coins that have been damaged or deliberately cut in the plough soil while metal detecting. I enjoy finding and adding...
I found this sceat many years ago and tried reading the runes on it. The result was EPA. I assume that was the name of the king on the obverse....
Barry Sherlock is a goldsmith from Torquay whose coin restorations are second to none.
Beautiful coins Dafydd. Strangely enough on first looking at the photo of the 3 coins together, my eyes were drawn to the middle one mainly...
These 2 were found fairly close to each other. One is black, the other quite shiny.[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Very nice coin John.
Dafydd, thanks for the background to the pomegranate mark. It would never have crossed my mind that a mintmark could have such religious...
I doubt that the scratches are anything to do with cleaning and more to do with being scrubbed over by earth and stones when ploughing took place.
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