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This is a really attractive Ancient British gold stater.

Pictured here is an Anglo-Saxon penny that has been converted into a brooch. The finder, Steve Simmons, said his heart

This is one of those coins that detectorists sometimes take it for granted that it is an Edward I penny. They only come to realise it isn’t when they try to decipher the legends.

This find is a denarius of Julia Domna, who was the second wife of Septimius Severus

This find is slightly smaller than the decimal pennies we use today.

The coin is a silver antoninianus of Trajan Decius, who reigned from September 249 to July of 251

The first attempt at ‘modernising’ the silver coinage of England was made during the reign of Henry VII. A profile

It’s a halfgroat of Henry VIII, which was struck during the second coinage of this king.

Most of the hammered silver coins found by detectorists are the low denominations but occasionally a larger specimen turns up, like this one.

It’s a penny of Edward I, which means it is fairly common, but it was struck at one of the provincial mints rather than London.