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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 22865350, member: 10461&quot;]<b><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">England: silver penny of Edward I &quot;Longshanks&quot;, ca. 1300-1310, London mint</font></font></b></p><p><b><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></b></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">My personal metal detecting find, dug in a farm field in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendring_District" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendring_District" rel="nofollow">Tendring district</a> of Essex.&nbsp; Though I&#039;ve <i>bought</i> better examples, this <i>found</i> coin was in my opinion the most exciting thing that came up during 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/">metal detecting trip</a> to England.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">The sun had just set when the detector signaled on this target, and I found myself without my headlamp, fumbling in the gathering gloom.&nbsp; Out in this pastoral field on a mild November evening, it got really dark, really quick.&nbsp; I did manage to find the coin in the hole by touch, perhaps five or six inches down, and recover it.&nbsp; Feeling it in my hand (the first hand it had touched in about 700 years!), I immediately knew I had dug my first coin of the trip, and from its thinness, I knew I had a hammered medieval coin at that.&nbsp; </font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Breathless, I rushed across the field where I saw the light one of my fellow detectorists was using.&nbsp; He did not hear me approach in the darkness, and I nearly scared him out of his shoes when I came up on him from out of nowhere!&nbsp; Borrowing his light, I was finally able to examine my treasure, and was, as you can imagine, quite exhilarated.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_I_of_England" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_I_of_England" rel="nofollow">Edward I of England</a> (aka &quot;Longshanks&quot; and &quot;The Hammer of the Scots&quot;) was an important, long-reigning king of medieval England.&nbsp; He was fictionally portrayed as a psychopathic tyrant in the 1995 blockbuster movie <i>Braveheart</i>.&nbsp; That great performance by Patrick McGoohan, if not entirely accurate historically, at least created one of my favorite movie villains.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">I like how the engraving on this particular coin gives Longshanks a piggy little nose.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi88.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fk173%2Flordmarcovan%2FEdward1penny-coin.png&amp;hash=ab9e8485e71809e7dd1fb2f137c3cda6" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]F2AC3J9OVV0[/MEDIA][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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