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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;David Woodhouse, post: 26361284, member: 174272&quot;]Dafydd, many thanks for your advice and personal experience of identifying cut quarters. I don&#039;t own a personal copy of JJ North but have access to a copy via my detecting club&#039;s library. I identified the Stephen quarter using its cross moline reverse as a key indicator and quickly narrowed it down to a Watford type using my Spinks Coins as a reference. The 2 Ethelreds were a bit trickier. I recognised that they were probably saxon so went straight to the online Early Medieval Corpus of coins. The spiky hair and pointed nose on the obverse led me quickly to the long cross type and the armoured shoulder plates on the other coin led me to the helmet type. With regard to my denarius, I found several others on the same field over a few month period. The field where I found them lies alongside the A5 (formerly the roman Watling Street) on the outskirts of Telford. Immediately opposite on the other side of the road are the remains of a roman marching camp. In total I found around 300 roman coins, the vast majority of which were very corroded copper examples with very little, if any, detail left on them. The silver coins however faired much better in the ground retaining much of their detail. My second oldest coin is another Republican denarius from the same field. It is a L Censorinus denarius dating to 82BC. Some imperial denarii were also found. See below.[ATTACH=full]1682468[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1682469[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1682472[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1682473[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1682474[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1682475[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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