10/7/21 Report - 2000 Gold Coins Found. Some Great Numismatic Articles. Mystery Item ID.

 

Written by the Treasureguide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.

 A birdwatcher has stumbled across a hoard of 2,000-year-old Celtic gold coins worth £800,000 that date back to the time Boudicca was at war with the Romans.

The keen metal detectorist, who has not been named, spotted a glint of gold while looking at a buzzard in a recently ploughed field in eastern England. 

Having rubbed off the mud to reveal a 2,000-year-old gold stater coin, he dashed home to pick up his metal detector and returned to carry on searching.

After several hours, and to his utter disbelief, he unearthed about 1,300 coins, all dating to circa 40-50AD...

Tne finder described the find as follows.

'I bent down and picked up what I thought was an old washer, rubbed it and felt its thickness.

'I saw the glint of gold and realised it was a beautiful Celtic gold stater, which made me sit down in sheer shock.

'I then spotted the second coin 2ft away and rushed home to get my (detector).'

He returned and hovered the device over the same area and got a 'really strong' signal.

After digging down around 18ins, he recovered what looked to be a copper bangle, but was in fact the rim of what would have been a jug or urn that housed the coins.

 Here is the link.

Birdwatcher stumbles upon £800,000 hoard of 2,000-year-old Celtic gold coins dating from time Boudicca was at war with the Romans - STATIONGOSSIP

That is another good example of a sight find leading to detector finds.

Anytime you see a recently uncovered coin along the water line at the beach, check with your detector to see if there might be more.

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Tales from the Vault is a series of articles designed to highlight the lesser-known parts of the ANA collection. 

These columns feature interesting and informative stories about individual objects or groups of objects that do not often (or ever) get to see the light of day.

The collection within the ANA vault holds  approximately 275,000 objects ; however, we only have space to show a tiny fraction of these hidden gems. Check back regularly for an inside look at the ANA vault  and the marvelous collection we are excited to share with you.

There are a lot of nice articles about coins and money on the site.

Take a look.

Here is the link.

Tales From The Vault | Coin Collections & Numismatic Object Blog | American Numismatic Association (money.org)

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After adding the new views of the lead mystery object, I received this from Robert J.

Couple lead soft lure fish

If the hook of the one on the bottom right was rusted away, it would look very much like the mystery object. 

Robert customizes his , to fit his requirements.   

I'm sold on this ID now.

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Happy hunting,

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