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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2763998, member: 10461&quot;]OK, so I didn&#039;t have pix of my holey Charles I piece, but, on the topic of Charles I in general, I thought I&#039;d post my favorite (and presently <i>only</i>) coin of his.&nbsp; Though not holed, it&#039;s a very low-end example like my &quot;holeys&quot; above.&nbsp; But the reason <i>why</i> it&#039;s my favorite Charles I coin (and indeed one of my favorite coins, period) should be evident when I repost the text below...</p><p><br /></p><p>....................................................</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot; Since the topic came up in another thread, and Google Maps made it easy, I&#039;ll share a shot of the field where the <b>ca. 1641-43 hammered silver penny of Charles I</b> was found. The picture below of Little Bromley, Essex, is from September of 2012, so a little more than a year before I found the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>A 1730s George II farthing was much farther out in the field. Somebody else with us that day found another small hammered silver postmedieval penny or halfgroat- his was an Elizabeth I.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin doesn&#039;t look like much, but the price was right- it cost me about 45 seconds of kneeling and digging in the then-muddy potato field shown below.</p><p><br /></p><p>I need to shoot better and larger pix of the coin. I think there is even some shaky video of the find on one of my camera SD cards. These small pictures are from the UK (Colchester) detecting club&#039;s page:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.colchestertreasurehunting.co.uk/2013Novfindpics/charles1stpenny2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="http://www.colchestertreasurehunting.co.uk/2013Novfindpics/charles1stpenny.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Charles&#039; portrait here, as with many of the earlier Elizabethan hammered pieces, is worn pretty flat, but the shield is clear. It is quite a tiny little coin, but it gave a solid signal on the detector.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1730s George II farthing came up in another, farther portion of the field which had obviously held an 18th century house site at one time. This same field had been the source of several Celtic gold staters in years previous! &quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/littlebromley-chas1penny-findspot-png.568268/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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