Graylord

This brings back memories, my first stater was a uniface, not as nice as this though.Ebay.co.uk

Nice find especially on his own land, I expect he'll get ripped off by the valuation committee though.

My current machine is a Tesoro Tejon. My wife has a Red Heat Lightning4 and we also have a Tesoro Silver Sabre Plus which we bought new in 1987. I bought her a Garrett Treasure Ace 300 a few months ago, thinking it would be lighter for her to handle but she decided to stick to the Red Heat, they are made in London by a chap named Vic Fiveash, he doesn't advertise all his business is from word of mouth reccomendation. I haven't got round to selling the Garrett yet, I'm waiting for the harvest for more interest.

Am I missing something here? I can find no fault with that listing. I have seen a Charles II half crown dug that was hardly recogniseable, almost diamond shape with rounded edges, but judged to be genuine. Many hammered coins leave the ground completely unrecognisable. That really is a dodo. It could be anything in that picture, even plastic. I have been tucked up on eBay a couple of times, once on a motor caravan a punter in Oxford agreed to "buy it now" for £2000 and had no intention of buying. Said it was a mistake, but you have to click two buttons, very hard to do by mistake. A mobile phone I listed was for UK buyers only and again "buy it now" was pressed by a goon in India and ebay allowed it through. The listing is then completed and you lose your listing fee.

I have to concur, nearly all Elizabeth I hammered silver found buried have poor portrait detail, the reverse is almost always superior to the obverse, they are quite often clipped around the edges, common with most hammered silver.

Chris, it's been shown to a dealer in Berkshire today and he has offered £750, this amount or whatever it is sold for will be split 50/50 between myself and the Farmer. We had another member found an Offa Penny about 4 months ago, the same dealer paid £1000 for it. The obverse on the first one was not as good as mine but the reverse was better and it had less damage and it was a diferent version. These are the only two ever found, in the history of our club, formed May 1977. I think this may be because metal detectors have improved and they are also running on higher frequencies than in the early days. Mine runs at 19mhz, most were running at about 3mhz to about 6mhz until a couple of years ago. I shall of course get at least two more valuations.

well Geordie, they probably lost more travelling thatn where they lived. You may well be in the right area going by your user name. Latest news on my Offa is the farmer doesn't want it so it has to be sold or I have to buy it, which I can't afford. So I think just let our records officer deal with it. Have to keep the farmer sweet, our old caravan is stored on one of his farms.

In this case Peter it was pot luck, but other reasonable finds have been made on this particular field, some Roman and also a poor Sceat as well as EdwardIII hammered and a Charles half groat, none of which I have seen. I personally don't research sites I just go on club digs but many people spend considerable time researching sites. To answer your first question, the thrill of finding something that was last held several hundred years previously and investigating it's history is my interest, I rarely look at coin displays unless they have been recently found. I have only ever sold one coin I found, this was a gold Quarter Stater, mainly because I was afraid of losing it. I once found a Victorian one eighth of a farthing, about the size of a nail head, it got lost in house moving or something. The same goes for a first edition Charles Dickens. I also found a uniface gold Stater and a quarter Stater on the same day in 1981, the landowner(now deceased) excercised his right to first refusal and he paid me for my share. My wife once found a double head silver Roman in Hampshire. Several dealers offered her silly money for it, then a dealer from Tyneside offered her £400 and she took it. The only find she ever sold.

Hi, this is my first post. Let me make myself clear at the outset, I am not a collector, although I have quite a number of coins of various sorts, all found with a metal detector over the past 29 years. My latest find was a penny of King Offa of Mercia. This of course is part owned by the land owner, but it aroused my curiosity as the portrait seems to be of a young child with curly hair. It's known I think as a Serpent Type, the moneyer being CIOLHARD, or very similar. If I can find out how I will upload a scan sent to me by our records officer, yes I'm a member of a club, South Bucks M.D.C. All our finds are recorded and reported to the local Fields Liason Officer employed by the County Council. I thought this might interest you. I have no idea of value as this is not my prime concern, the history is far more interesting.