New Additions To My Collection

Thanks. I think it is. I looked on picture of website I bought it from a few days ago and it looked photo shopped out. It was like that when it arrived though. I have slabbed it for now while I wait for some distilled water to arrive. Hopefully a soak and a scrub with that will remedy it. It's not an area I am knowledgeable with as I usually collect silver coins. They are interesting coins. I believe they where minted in York. I'd love to collect roman but I wouldn't know where to start there's so many out there.

A very interesting area of collecting. I really like the Anglo-Saxon coinage and the later mediaeval hammered coins.

Me too orfew. I have a few Norman coins William 1st and Stephen and a henry 11 tealby and the rest are plantagenets mainly. Did find a Elizabeth 1st sixpence detecting once but that's as high up as I went with mediaevil silvers. My favourites are short cross coinage but I felt I had gone as far as I could go with them after getting a Henry 11 Moneyer fil aimer. Short for Philip amerery the guy who Henry had brought over from France to redesign the coinage after the tealby coinage. Yes David I agree about the AETHELRED 1st coins. Would love to own one of them but a bit out my price league. I keep swinging my detector around though in hope one may pop up one day. Bit disheartening seeing this bronze disease pop up on my first bronzes. Closer inspection shows a few dots appearing on the AETHELRED now. They must have touched each other. Just hope I can resolve it soon.

Yes moxking a very interesting period in history.The Romans leave and Vortigen the celt brings the saxons over for hire as guards and they take over and run the celts out then the Normans come along and the saxons are taken over. One thing I love about British history is your constantly learning something new each day.

Yes I agree. Silly prices also for Richard 111 when they show up. Most of the Henry IV and V are clipped right down. Some are that bad there hard to distinguish which henry it is. Think I'll stick with silvers from now on. Spent hours picking and scrubbing those stycas then alcohol dip then waxing. Least with silvers all you need is some spit and aluminium foil. Lesson learned I think. If a bronze looks white and pasty in places it's covering up BD.