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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 4957737, member: 10461&quot;]When I was <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</a> over there in the UK in 2013, I avidly wanted to find a Roman coin, of course.</p><p><br /></p><p>In one field that had produced a Marcus Aurelius sestertius for another digger (which I <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-meditations-of-my-new-marcus-aurelius-sestertius-why-the-ones-we-love-most-hurt-us-most.368563/#post-4956049" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-meditations-of-my-new-marcus-aurelius-sestertius-why-the-ones-we-love-most-hurt-us-most.368563/#post-4956049">mentioned</a> recently), I found a small but thickish round disc with a green patina on it, and my adrenaline surged.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was certain I had just popped a late Roman Æ3!</p><p><br /></p><p>But it turned out to be an 18th century flat <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi88.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fk173%2Flordmarcovan%2FDiggers%2520Diary%2FExport6.png&amp;hash=8e2bdb937d06ee328c6ae4c2008d5833" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi88.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fk173%2Flordmarcovan%2FDiggers%2520Diary%2FExport6.png&amp;hash=8e2bdb937d06ee328c6ae4c2008d5833">button</a>, minus the shank.&nbsp; *sigh*</p><p><br /></p><p>I never found a Roman coin over there.</p><p><br /></p><p>Instead, <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/diggers-diary-the-arcadius-anomaly-repost-from-one-of-my-old-treasurenet-threads.287141/" 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/">I found one <i>here</i></a>... in <i>Georgia, </i>of all places.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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