Friday Update: 18 November 2022

November 18, 2022 Paul

Editorial

It’s nearly Christmas so we have Five Gold Rings for you. The seller of one of them last week said “It’s not quite King Arthur’s ring, but it’s the next thing down“. The other four, all found in the last three years, are up for auction in Noonan’s auction on 29 November 2022. The star lot is the Lady Brook ring and it’s another tale of a detectorist who was just about to call it a day when he had his “find of a lifetime“.

We’ve eight more readers finds including, as has become the norm of late, a rare Anglo-Saxon sceatta. And in PAS finds we have another foreign coin that is considered of Regional Importance. It’s a drachm of Khosrow II; how did a coin from modern day Iran end up in the Wirral in the 6th/7th century.

Auction News

Noonans are in the news this week with an auction held a few days ago and another in a week or so.

Noonans to sell Lady Brook ring

The Lady Brook ring, found in 2019, is the star of the show with an estimate of £30,000 – £40,000. There’s three other gold ring detecting finds in the auction.

Noonans sell Knaresborough ring for £36,000

As well as the Knaresborough ring, Noonan’s sold several other recent detecting finds including an entire hoard of Roman coins.

Identification and Valuations

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

Find of the Week

Anglo-Saxon “stepped cross” sceatta

Tony Hollis has the Find of Week for the second week running with this rare sceatta

Runner Up

PAS Finds – Sasanian coins

Another one of those detecting finds this week which is of limited commercial value but is hugely significant in what it reveals about the movement of people in the Anglo-Saxon period.

Previous Website Updates

You can find all previous website updates in News

Next week

Help with the next edition

Please help me with next week’s edition. If you’ve been out detecting again or taking the time to go through your collection, please contact me with anything you find of interest or would like me to identify.