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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 7875644, member: 10461&quot;]I don&#039;t think it was clipped so much as just struck on an odd-shaped flan.&nbsp; Dinky little thing, right?</p><p><br /></p><p>It does look a bit like the c. 1641-43 Charles I penny I dug while metal detecting in Little Bromley, Essex.</p><p><br /></p><p>(I am an American, for whom that weeklong <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 trip</a> to your side of the pond was the adventure of a lifetime.&nbsp; I envy your opportunity to do that all the time!)</p><p><br /></p><p>I thought mine was an Elizabethan penny when it first came up.&nbsp; Someone else did find an Elizabeth I penny on the other side of the field.&nbsp; I found a 1730 farthing as well.&nbsp; Other people had reportedly found multiple Celtic gold staters there in the past.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mine, like yours, has a weak portrait.&nbsp; I gather that is not so unusual.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1357364[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></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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