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Interesting English King Find

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 Posted 10/21/2023  07:02 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Kipster to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
An interesting link for anyone collecting ancient English coins.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...2432256.html
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Another example of a unique coin from someplace outside the U.S. that sold for a pittance compared to U.S. numismatic rarities.

Thanks for the story! We just got back from a trip to Winchester and Cornwall, full of a dose of English history and scenery, so I've mentally filed this story along with those memories.
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Kipster, fascinating story - thank you for sharing it!
Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Indeed, most enjoyable.
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Another example of a unique coin from someplace outside the U.S. that sold for a pittance compared to U.S. numismatic rarities.


This is probably a big reason many US collectors who stick with the hobby move to an adjacent non-US field.

This is an interesting find, but I agree with one of the article's longer comments -- it seems a tad misleading. For the time period, it's a bit more akin to finding a new "king" of a Germanic tribe or something. This era isn't my specialty, but was there an "England" by any contemporaneous standard in 50 BCE? I've never thought of England and Rome a co-existing entities...
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Thanks Kipster, a great link. I am imagining the adrenalin rush of the detectorist when he dug it up.
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