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Detectorists who have been searching fields for a reasonable length of time will know that some hammered silver coins are far scarcer than others

This coin was found very recently by Oliver Jackson. I was asked to provide further details, including a valuation. The

This hammered silver coin was unearthed by Colin Barton, who said it looked as if it had been clipped.

This is an important coin so my advice was to leave it in its ‘as found’ condition. Any cleaning should be left to an expert.

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