Friday Update: 26 August 2022

August 26, 2022 Paul

Editorial

We never know what is going to be in each week’s update of this website until the finds come in. It’s been unusual over the last few weeks that these have followed a theme. This week’s themes is Irish coins, with three readers’ finds coming in, including one exceptional coin.

PAS finds includes a pilgrim’s badge of Christ weeping. The story behind the find includes the Rood of Grace at Boxley Abbey, a medieval mechanical carving of Christ which was said to weep. A similar image of Christ is seen on one of the lots in Noonans auction, an iconographic gold ring. The auction contains several other detecting finds.

Noonans sell artefact finds

Medieval gold iconographic ring depicting The Holy Trinity

Noonans auction on 13 September 2022 will include several recent artefact finds including this iconographic gold ring which was found in Harrogate in 2020 as part of a hoard.

Valuations and Identifications

Seven more readers finds this week.

Find of the Week

Irish halfpenny of Prince John

This extremely rare coin was found by a detectorist called Lucas.

Runner Up

PAS Finds

A pilgrim badge of a weeping Christ. It’s could be from the Trinity Abbey at Vendôme which claimed to have one of Christ’s tears or Boxley Abbey which had a wooden image of Christ, which was said to weep (with some medieval trickery).

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