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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2602482, member: 10461&quot;]Neat thread.&nbsp; Since Charles I opened the conversation, I will post the only Charles I coin I presently own.</p><p><br /></p><p>This ca. 1641-43 hammered silver penny of Charles I doesn&#039;t look like much, but the price was right- it cost me about 45 seconds of kneeling in a muddy potato field in Little Bromley, Essex, UK... digging.</p><p><br /></p><p>For this is one of my November 2013 <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/">detector finds</a>, which were recently featured.</p><p><br /></p><p>So this one did indeed migrate to America- just a wee bit later than some of its earlier cousins that circulated in places like Jamestown and Plymouth.</p><p><br /></p><p>I need to shoot better and larger pix of it.&nbsp; These are from the UK (Colchester) detecting club&#039;s page:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.colchestertreasurehunting.co.uk/2013Novfindpics/charles1stpenny2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="http://www.colchestertreasurehunting.co.uk/2013Novfindpics/charles1stpenny.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Charles&#039; portrait here, as with many of the earlier Elizabethan hammered pieces, is worn pretty flat, but the shield is clear.&nbsp; Such a tiny little coin, but it gave a solid signal on the detector.</p><p><br /></p><p>A 1730s George II farthing came up in another portion of the field which had obviously held an 18th century house site at one time.&nbsp; This same field had been the source of several Celtic gold staters in years previous!</p><p><br /></p><p>PS- for no other reason than my own amusement, and the fact that Google Maps makes it easy, I&#039;ll share a shot of the field where the coin was found.&nbsp; The Google Maps picture is from September of 2012, so a little more than a year before I found this coin.&nbsp; The George II farthing was much farther out in the field.&nbsp; Speaking of Elizabethan, I think somebody else with us that day found another small hammered postmedieval penny or halfgroat- his <i>was</i> an Elizabeth I.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]568268[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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