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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3095118, member: 10461&quot;]There&#039;s a nice one!</p><p><br /></p><p>Since we&#039;re showing off coins of pre-headless Chuckie the First, I will show my very humble ca. 1641-43 Charles I penny.&nbsp; (He actually <i>is</i> kind of headless here, though due to circulation rather than the <a href="http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/charlesI.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/charlesI.htm" rel="nofollow">axe</a>.)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]781898[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]781899[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the thing, though.&nbsp; This coin might not be worth much, but its pedigree includes <i>no</i> <i>owners at all </i>for the entirety of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries!</p><p><br /></p><p>How&#039;s that, you ask?&nbsp; Well, after a sojourn in the soil for some three and a half centuries, it went directly from the hands or pocket of the unknown person who dropped it in the middle of the 17th century...&nbsp; right into my <i>own</i> muddy fingers and detecting pouch, when I unearthed it from this potato field in Little Bromley, Essex, on November 2nd or 3rd, 2013.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]781897[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You can&#039;t put a price on something like that.</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3">(* I also dug a 1730s George II farthing from the same field seen in the photo, and multiple gold Celtic staters had been found by others nearby in prior detecting seasons.)</font></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>My trip mentioned above cost me about $2K, and about another $1.5K of it was paid for by generous (and unsolicited!) donations from Collectors Universe friends who had passed the hat around and taken up a collection, merely to see me go and do that!</p><p><br /></p><p>In the end, I found probably <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/">less than $150 worth of stuff</a> for that $3.5K outlay, so was it worth it?&nbsp; You BET it was.</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3">(* I didn&#039;t find the gold Celtic stater or Roman aureus I had daydreamed about, but I understand someone else <i>did</i> dig a stater the day after I left.)</font></p><p><br /></p><p>My vacation included coin souvenirs AND adventure.&nbsp; Best of both worlds!&nbsp; Wish I&#039;d taken a tiny taste of the traditional touristy stuff, though.&nbsp; We spent the entire time in farm fields - which is as it should have been - but maybe one day of sightseeing would&#039;ve been nice, since it was my first and only (and maybe last) European trip.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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