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The coin was covered from head to toe in the green lumpy stuff you can just make out on the reverse at the bottom edge........copper oxides from other coins touching it in the Roman vessel they were found in. Many hours picking carefully under magnification..........many many.

Yep.....all handed in and all returned by the BM after recording. I have rather alot at home!

They cleaned some, a little to ID them only, but the rest are in need of a good clean. Jar is in fragments......took a picture of them all in a pile covered in mud on my kitchen table. I'll get it on here .......Found 600 scattered on the surface in a 10m2 area and then the metal detector found a hotspot in the middle......2ft down it went berserk and the next spade load spilled out hundreds and hundreds of coins ........ never forget it!!

No, sadly not. The landowner is a bit paranoid about the whole thing and doesn't want his field dug up by unscrupulous nighthawkers.
I have the moment of finding the hoard firmly embedded in my brain though! one of those once in a lifetime moments.

It was about 4 years ago. I had been metal detecting for 3 months and had never found a single Roman coin until I found the first of the 600 scattered above the pot! Luck isn't the word....someone was looking down on me that day and I'd like to think they were wearing a toga.
Feel welcome here already which is nice thanks, I'm no expert, but I will bring enthusiasm to the party and a cheap bottle of wine.

Good coin, better camera but fabulous story. I see adding a lot to this message board. Yes! Another interesting personality. The US collectors and numismatists are surely in envy of you. If you go out to a field here, you find beer cans and Lincoln pennies from the 1970's. I found 5 pennies in a park once.

Thanks evry1.... to answer the post previously, it was pot luck, no history of finds and no Roman coins ever recorded in the area.. To quote the farmer when I asked for permission on the phone.....
'well ok, you seem like a nice chap....but I dont think you'll find anything'
45 minutes later.....I made a phone call back to the farmer
'Hello Mr .... its the chap you let have permission to detect , can you come out to the field in your landrover, I have something to show you...can you bring some whisky?'
Lovely chap gave me all the coins and didnt want a single one when the museum returned them to me, he said I did all the work! I have since presented him and his wife with many of the cleaned coins in a presentation case.