Help Identifying Metal Detecting Find.

Congrats on the find. I'm guessing you found it in GB.

I haven't a clue about this ruler myself, so here's a link for some info on him for those like me.

https://artsandculture.google.com/a...Gh76IxA7AWXA

I detect but don't have any insight to share with you. Never having been across the pond I've never come close to finding something like that. Seems like you might have luck finding information at one of the houses that specialize in medieval(?) coinage over there. (Or a site that specializes in metal detecting as they will have more members with more knowledge.)

Be sure to let us know if you find out more.

to CCF.
John1

I don't know enough to say it's a fake, although this coin isn't in Spink. If it's a fake, there are two reasons to make it - to trick people into paying a lot of money for it, or to give people an example of a Viking coin without them having to pay a lot of money for it.

I don't know if Anlaf Guthfrithson would've called himself the 'Raven King'. All the coins of the time simply have the king's name and a moneyer. If that's a fantasy legend, then it doesn't sound like one you'd use if you were trying to trick someone. Similarly, the apparent mixing of reverse types would be odd if you were trying to trick someone. It would also be strange to lose a coin you thought was worth a lot of money.

Anlaf Guthfrithson raven coins have been known since at least the 1860s so there's a lot of scope for who might've made a replica. I have a fantasy Roman coin made in the Victorian era and found in York, which I presume came from the tourist trade back then.

Thank you for the reply gentlemen. Greatly appreciated.

I think I used the wrong word "fake" and maybe a reproduction would have been better suited.

But would a copy not be an exact copy? This is like 2 separate coin images with a legend I've never seen.

A strange but cool find.