Friday Update: Good Friday 2022

April 15, 2022 Peter

Editorial

A good variety of readers finds in this week, including a cannon ball, papal bulla and a tiny Anglo-Saxon mount.

For the bank holiday weekend, there is a longer read on the life and coinage of King Stephen – the last Norman king.

There are the results of Dix Noonan Webb’s auction of the collection of a “Suffolk Detectorist”. From the end of April, the auctioneers are shortening their name to Noonans. They chose this name from the three as they considered it better than the other two for searching on the internet.

Appropriately in PAS finds is a crucifix, one of a few Finds of Note this week.

With the weather looking good this bank holiday weekend, I hope many of you will be able to get out detecting. Remember to send in any finds of interest to the website.

Kings Stephen, his life and coinage

The story of how two woman named Matilda shaped the problematic reign of Stephen.

Valuations and Identifications

Eleven more readers finds this week. For the rest of this week’s finds see the Front Page

Find of the Week

Penny of Queen Mary

How much does the hole impact the value of this rare groat of Queen Mary?

Runner Up

Groat of Henry VII

Chris Mcloughlin said this coin was very recently unearthed somewhere in Cornwall

Other finds

Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy mount

Steve Simmons found this 8th Century mount which is only 20mm by 20mm in size

Papal Bulla of Nicholas IV

Steve Smith said this find turned up a while back during a dig organised by Midweek Searchers

PAS Finds

Finds include this item of Treasure plus Finds of Note: medieval crucifix, Bronze Age axehead, medieval stirrup and gold solidus of Constantius II

Auction Results

DNW sell coins from a “Collection of Suffolk Detectorist”

The “Suffolk Detectorist” should be pleased as some of his finds go for well above estimate

DNW Ancient and Islamic auction includes rare detecting finds

The uncertainty of auction: this Aureus of Titus fetches below estimate and another find fails to sell.

Previous Website Updates

You can find all previous website updates in News

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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.