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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 1990984, member: 12789&quot;]The Portable Antiquities Scheme is very fascinating, allows for much more research by professionals, largely keeps stuff documented and out of the black market.&nbsp; Sure wish they had something similar in Eastern Europe with the Black Sea coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have an Irish halfpenny from 1672 that was found in Shropshire in 2007 and was documented through the PAS as the find was reported because of the unusual aspect of finding an Irish merchants token in rural Shropshire.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would love to be able to go through these coins one by one to see the different Emperors etc.&nbsp; Several years ago I purchased a hoard of English hammered coins that were likely buried in the mid 1270s as there were the first coins of Edward I in there, but nothing later.&nbsp; The earliest coins dated to the Danish invasions and were apparently still circulating at that late date.&nbsp; Most of the coins were from Canterbury which was nearby to where they were found.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hoards are fascinating because they clearly demonstrate the circulation patterns of coins - some for several hundred years and great distances from where they were minted.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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