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<p>[QUOTE="Numisnewbiest, post: 3655456, member: 99613"]<a href="http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/56154" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/56154" rel="nofollow">http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/56154</a></p><p><br /></p><p>An exceptional gold solidus of Emperor Constantine I, the first of its type ever discovered in Britain, <a href="https://www.dnw.co.uk/auctions/catalogue/lot.php?auction_id=525&lot_id=63500" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.dnw.co.uk/auctions/catalogue/lot.php?auction_id=525&lot_id=63500" rel="nofollow">will be sold at auction</a> by the finder and landowner. It was discovered by a metal detector hobbyist in June of this year in Wanstrow, Somerset. June 7th was the first time he’d searched that field near an old Roman road. Wielding a second-hand metal detector, he first found a Roman brooch and some pieces of lead ore (the Roman road was used to transport lead from nearby mines). Then, a foot under the surface, he found a single gold coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]982365[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Numisnewbiest, post: 3655456, member: 99613"][URL]http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/56154[/URL] An exceptional gold solidus of Emperor Constantine I, the first of its type ever discovered in Britain, [URL='https://www.dnw.co.uk/auctions/catalogue/lot.php?auction_id=525&lot_id=63500']will be sold at auction[/URL] by the finder and landowner. It was discovered by a metal detector hobbyist in June of this year in Wanstrow, Somerset. June 7th was the first time he’d searched that field near an old Roman road. Wielding a second-hand metal detector, he first found a Roman brooch and some pieces of lead ore (the Roman road was used to transport lead from nearby mines). Then, a foot under the surface, he found a single gold coin. [ATTACH=full]982365[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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