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Ahh well spotted Craigy. 23.I Gram

Think I've pinned this down to Faustina11. Can anyone tell me otherwise. 230 odd grams, big old bronze! Wife of Marcus Aurelius.

It can take an age in London. Still waiting for the report on a Roman ring from the Thames. Last year They are swamped with finds and you're limited to ten finds a visit.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DMgUfRPWAAE7rP3.jpg:large This is only the third coin from this die. The obverse design was shared by London and Cambridge. https://twitter.com/ajdaubney/status/921008770540539904

Could have been minted yesterday! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/263119103938?pb=14&&autorefresh=true

Thanks Matteo.

Any help with this I.D. A neighbour has just found this in his garden(so he say's!) Good nick for a garden coin

Archbishop of Canterbury That looks in cracking condition!

That's a beauty. A real stand out specimen.

Thanks Colin.

Whats going on here then? George the 11...1775. Evasion coin?

Funny you should say that, The Museum of London who are in partnership B.M. registered it and had no problem with it. Die axis measurement: 3 Dimensions: diameter: 19.39mm; weight: 1.67g. Type: N 777 (Last Small Cross) (Hild. A) Obverse description: Diademed bust facing left. Obverse inscription: +ÆÐELRED REX AN Reverse description: Small crossReverse inscription: +HYLÐSIGE ON BADie axis measurement: 3 o'clock Degree of wear: Hardly worn: extremely fine

Had an appointment at neurology unit at Queen Square today, one street from Spink. I took the opportunity of taking the above coin to see if I could get a ball park figure from them, or to see if it was worth going to auction, just some general advice. A fella I hadn't seen before duly took the coin to show someone who I do know, who was out the back. He came back a few minutes later and said it wasn't right. He held the coin on it's edge ,drew it across some white paper and said "it shouldn't do that" When I got home I drew ten hammered coins across some white paper and got exactly the same result! Have I got eleven counterfeit hammereds!? .

Perhaps I was being a tad disingenuous. Of course it is a rather special coin, just doesn't do it for me. The Petition Crown and the Oxford Crown are both stunning, I would find room for them both

http://www.antique-collecting.co.uk/worlds-most-beautiful-coin-for-sale/ Of course beauty is in the eye of the beholder but...That is a bit of a boast! Personally, it wouldn't even reach my top hundred.

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/08/03/miners-namibia-discovered-ship-carrying-9million-worth-gold/

That was helpful..

I went in last Friday Rob, Neil told me he was in the building but busy because it was his last day.

I popped in to see Steve Hill at the Strand only to find he has gone. Does anyone know anything about this, where he has gone? Always liked Steve, very approachable fella'.

Spoke to a top dealer yesterday, around £300 without seeing it. A bit more when seen in hand I reckon I may keep this one myself.

Going for recording on the 20th next month Peter, Museum of London(with a silver Roman ring I had) Happy days!

Thanks Peter, the more I search the luckier I get Can't find a single image of this coin anywhere. Not one!

Thanks very much Rob. It's very odd in as much as the area this coin comes from produces Aethelreds. This is the fourth one and all bar none are rare mints, one extremely rare! Two other silver hammered coins also in spitting distance. There's a hoard being washed up, I'm pretty certain.

This is one of the best conditioned hammered I have had from the river. Uncleaned and very pleasing in hand. Can anyone confirm what I think it is?