Restoring Your Finds
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Hello everybody,
I went out today, only for a couple hours, on of my permissions. The landowner had worked the field, but he only made a test. I had a strip of 5 to 6 yards but over hundreds yards long. I decided to hit a specific place on top of the hill. I did maybe a hundred yard long but ended up finding things only over a very specific area, maybe only 25 to 30 yards long. (and 5 yards wide)
The result :
From top left to bottom right : a Gallienus antoninianus, which has lost its silver, an unknown roman coin (Constantinus II?), a Postumus antoninianus, which has kept at least, if not all, its silver and a double tournois. (17th century) On the far right is a strange and very little bottle neck. Both roman Emperors, Gallienus and Postumus date back to the second half od the 3rd century AD.
I am included 2 close ups of the Postumus antoninianus. The coin looks way better in real !
Some history :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallienus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postumus
I went out today, only for a couple hours, on of my permissions. The landowner had worked the field, but he only made a test. I had a strip of 5 to 6 yards but over hundreds yards long. I decided to hit a specific place on top of the hill. I did maybe a hundred yard long but ended up finding things only over a very specific area, maybe only 25 to 30 yards long. (and 5 yards wide)
The result :
From top left to bottom right : a Gallienus antoninianus, which has lost its silver, an unknown roman coin (Constantinus II?), a Postumus antoninianus, which has kept at least, if not all, its silver and a double tournois. (17th century) On the far right is a strange and very little bottle neck. Both roman Emperors, Gallienus and Postumus date back to the second half od the 3rd century AD.
I am included 2 close ups of the Postumus antoninianus. The coin looks way better in real !
Some history :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallienus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postumus
