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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2579390, member: 10461&quot;]I envy your being able to detect in Europe!&nbsp; That week in England was my one and only opportunity to hunt in the Old World, and was the fulfillment of a lifelong dream, even though my finds were quite modest compared to those of the other people in the group.</p><p><br /></p><p>Truth be told, I&#039;m a bit of a &quot;washed-up has been&quot; as a detectorist.&nbsp; I was very avid about it for 25+ years, but don&#039;t get out much anymore.&nbsp; I still remember it fondly, though, and like to relive my past adventures.&nbsp; And I&#039;m not <i>totally</i> done with it yet.</p><p><br /></p><p>I note you routinely find Roman coins, which is awesome.&nbsp; I only saw one dug (by someone else) when I was in England- in the very first hour I was there.&nbsp; It was a Marcus Aurelius <i>sestertius,</i> though - not a smaller late-Roman piece, which was really cool!&nbsp; On one site (near the sestertius find spot, a few days later) I thought I&#039;d finally found a small Roman, but it turned out to be one of those 18th century flat buttons with the shank broken off.</p><p><br /></p><p>As it happens, <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/diggers-diary-the-arcadius-anomaly-repost-from-one-of-my-old-treasurenet-threads.287141/#post-2579398" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/diggers-diary-the-arcadius-anomaly-repost-from-one-of-my-old-treasurenet-threads.287141/#post-2579398">I <i>have</i> found one Roman coin</a>, but bizarrely enough, it was right here in <i>Georgia!</i> (the USA Georgia, not the Eurasian one.)&nbsp; So my oldest coin was found in the New World.&nbsp; That 1300-1310 Edward I penny at the top of this thread is the oldest I&#039;ve found <i>in situ</i>, dropped at the time it would have circulated.&nbsp; The Roman I found here in Georgia was on a colonial site, and likely lost by a collector in the late 1700s or early 1800s, based on the context of the site where I found it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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