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United Kingdom
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Took it to the local Finds Liason Officer. They said its not ancient lead and is most likely the result of foul play in the modern era, unfortunately. Still cool if it is and it'll still be displayed. Its currently with them to be recorded and photographed and their Roman specialist will have a look at it too. No word from the British Museum. I phoned them up and they said email them - they said they had the account open in front of them. That was on thursday. They're taking their sweet sweet time. The FLO did say that buying uncleaned coins is a bad thing to do becuase they arent being recorded just sent to ebay - they've got like 17,000 recorded coins on their database and I've seen many times that figure be sold on ebay, so I suppose they are correct. One of my purchases could actually times the amount of finds in an area by 10 but I dont know which fields the coins came from, so the info is lost to time. Ah well. Perhaps it would be prudent to have a sticky for UK finders so they go get their stuff recorded. |
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United States
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If I were you and I lived in the UK, I would be out DAILY metal detecting!
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If I were me and I was rich enough to be able to afford a decent detector, I definitely would be. But I am but a lowly pauper. But hey, Christmas is pretty soon!
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United Kingdom
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It is certainly true about the shoddy way finds from sites here in England are just dumped onto ebay and sold off. As I mentioned before, recording the finds does not always mean they are taken from the finder forever. Unless an exceptional Hoard find, like the "Frome Hoard", they will be handed back to the finder once recorded. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frome_HoardBeing recorded gives provenance as well as historical interest, giving value to a "Slug" and increasing the value to better grade coins. So, it is in the interest of the finder to record their finds. That is the ideal, the reality is that some Detectors will not want the location of find spots known, or the Land owner will not want to be deluged with Detectorists at all hours, so these are some of the reasons why finds are not recorded. Edited by Masis
08/27/2013 2:12 pm
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Well, I'm endevouring to find out where all my coins come from. I'm getting the Carausius and Allectus coins recorded (and anything interesting I find). Most are unrecordable because you have to know which field they came from. Oh well.
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Netherlands
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What a disappointment Ben that it is not ancient! I hope you are able to return the piece.
I have plans to go in the field with the metal detector of my uncle soon! Dont have any experience with it but when I see what people find in Holland, thats really amazing!
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08/27/2013 2:19 pm
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Return it? Not on your nelly, bucko! Whatever it is, its a great design and very historic and its going on my mantlepiece (next to the remains of my Aurelius Sestertius, the republican semis and perhaps an Allectus if it comes out nicely)
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Is it a modern fake, or ancient? Can anyone put a rough date on it?
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Well, it had at least some dirt on it when I got it, so its been underground. Its oxidised on the surface and has spots of advanced oxidation, so I doubt its after the year 2000. But the guy suggested that its modern era (after 1950s) from a modern die. But the style is perfect and the coin well rendered - it would certainly have to come from a very well preserved coin which was nearly completely centered - someones tried to cut it out and eradicated the edge dots - if they were all present, it would indicate a fully centered example, which I havent found. I suppose they could have connected those dots to cut it out, but still. The only thing missing is the C on the far right - but this is usually squished in, so it may be present but eradicated. The ADLOCVTIO is slightly left shifted compared to other examples, but this is within the bounds of other examples I've found.
Hopefully it will come back with some illuminating info. The FLO was pretty rough with the stuff he was looking at - he knows what he's doing, I'm sure, but still. The roman expert might have more luck with it - hopefully somewhere a die match will present itself.
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