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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 7970469, member: 10461&quot;]In the time before I bought <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/swiss-cantons-z%C3%BCrich-silver-city-view-1-2-thaler-1-gulden-of-36-schillings-1739.362160/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/swiss-cantons-z%C3%BCrich-silver-city-view-1-2-thaler-1-gulden-of-36-schillings-1739.362160/">this coin</a>, I would not have known where you meant when you said “Turicum”, and would have had to look that up.&nbsp; But since I <i>do</i> own that coin, I instantly knew which European city you live in, or near. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I’d love to see it someday.</p><p><br /></p><p>For what it’s worth, I never found a Roman coin when I went <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/highlights-of-my-2013-metal-detecting-week-in-england.287138/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/highlights-of-my-2013-metal-detecting-week-in-england.287138/">detecting in England</a> for a week.&nbsp; I <i>thought</i> I had found an Æ3 at one point when I dug a small, greenish disc. (We were on a site where I had seen someone else find a <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/marcus-aurelius.301519/page-2#post-2828474" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/marcus-aurelius.301519/page-2#post-2828474">Marcus Aurelius sestertius</a>).&nbsp; But my “Roman Æ3” turned out to merely be an 18th century flat button with its shank broken off.</p><p><br /></p><p>So the only Roman coin I’ve personally found was in a very unlikely place, on a colonial site in the Southern United States.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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