Friday Update: 11 November 2022

November 11, 2022November 18, 2022 Paul

Editorial

Our Find of the Week this week is a groat of Henry VIII. The finder, Tony Hollis, sent in two sets of images of the coin and as you’ll see in the article on the coin they present a very different view of the same coin. It illustrates how the lighting and background can have a dramatic affect when photographing coins. We were also pleased to continue our trend of recent weeks of having a rare Anglo-Saxon sceatta.

In the news is the sale this week of the Barnety Bull Rider which the PAS say is a unique piece. In PAS finds there’s a wire kopek of Peter the Great. We’ve the story behind the coinage and a guide on how to decipher the notoriously difficult to read legends.

“Barnetby Bull Rider” sold at auction

A detecting find from 2016, the “Barnetby Bull Rider” was sold at auction this week. Who is the woman riding the bull?

Identification and Valuations

Eight readers finds this week. Thanks to all those who have sent them in

Find of the Week

Groat of Henry VIII

Tony Hollis find is one of the best specimens of this type of groat that I have seen

Runner Up

PAS Finds

Our selected finds this week include three foreign coins, all of them rare detecting finds in this country. Our featured coin is a “wire” kopek of Peter the Great, with the story behind these coins and how to read the legend. There’s also a rare denarius of Carausius and a Primrose League badge.

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