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Liberty1966 New Member United Kingdom 25 Posts	Posted 12/24/2013 09:59 am Hi, help to identify please, ideas please... My dad just found this with his metal detector in Cheshire England, please see images At first thought was two coins stuck together but now think one token mounted in a coin size back with edges a bit like putting the coin as a crust onto a pie casing. The back has a bit like a potin cast where can see where cut from a strip and has what looks like a volcano type vase with sort of tenacle type flowers, whereas the coin/token is very woen but does seen to have a vertical line across the base part from 7 to 5 o clock and at about 2 o clock a letter a, so late celtic / roman? will try to post more pics as may be too large in one go Report this Post to the Staff

Liberty1966 New Member United Kingdom 25 Posts	Posted 12/24/2013 10:12 am more pics Report this Post to the Staff
Liberty1966 New Member United Kingdom 25 Posts	Posted 12/24/2013 10:13 am the pic above is the token/coin Report this Post to the Staff
Liberty1966 New Member United Kingdom 25 Posts	Posted 12/24/2013 10:21 am the back casing Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16829 Posts	Posted 12/24/2013 7:59 pm Looks like a lead seal to me; the line on the edge is where the cord the seal was attached to once passed through. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
Liberty1966 New Member United Kingdom 25 Posts	Posted 12/25/2013 05:33 am thanks, any idea age Report this Post to the Staff
Liberty1966 New Member United Kingdom 25 Posts	Posted 12/26/2013 09:37 am it is bronze not lead and has cleaned up better since does have a gap to feed a cord so looks like will hang but then images upside down of like a flowering bushel so perhap seal rather than necklace Report this Post to the Staff
Ben Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 4208 Posts	Posted 12/30/2013 8:19 pm It does appear to be a seal. Odd if it is bronze. Maybe its a slide? The idea of using lead was that it was malleable and could be struck when impressing to hold the bag closed (and it made it much easier to impress an image on). Report this Post to the Staff
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