4/9/22 Report - Detectorists Find Bronze Age Axe Heads. Finding Error Coins In Pocket Change: Great Example.

 

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

Source: BBC News link below.

Metal detectorists have made a "remarkable" discovery unearthing two Bronze Age axe heads on land owned by a farmer in Wiltshire.

Kay Stevenson, from Winterbourne in South Gloucestershire, said the finds could be about 4,000 years old.

"I knelt down and dug it up, then realised it looked like an axe head."

"I didn't realise the significance of what we found until we spoke to Bristol Museum, it's bonkers thinking about it," she said...

Here is that link for more about that.

Bronze Age axe heads found in Wiltshire field - BBC News

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Source: See Numismatic News link below.

G.J. Lawson of Hampton, Va., didn’t have to go far to end 2021 by hitting the jackpot. He pulled a small quantity of pretty major Rim-To-Rim Die Break errors out of a local store from mid- to late November. As an error-variety coin dealer whose ads you can find in Numismatic News going back as far as the early 1970s, he’s used to having to purchase his inventory from coin suppliers – but this time all he had to do was look in his pocket change.

He found 18 of them at Harris Teeter Pharmacy. Because the cashier behind the counter was not authorized to sell or exchange any rolls of cents with him, he had to buy single packages of cheese and crackers, which after tax came out to 41 cents each, giving him a nickel and 4 cents in change each time he went back to buy more. It was the only way he could check out those cents. He believes the entire town is serviced by Brinks and that there could be many more of these errors to be found. That, of course, remains to be seen...

For reader edification, a die crack is just that: a crack with no metal missing from the die, resulting in a raised irregular line on the coin. On the other hand, a die break (which may start out as a crack or series of cracks) represents an area of the die that has broken and fallen away, leaving behind a void or what appears to be a blob of metal with no design in its place on the struck coins. The United States Mint refers to this as a “piece out” (which you can see printed on many of the certificates the U.S. Mint issued with the thousands of defaced dies it sold to collectors during the 1990s-2000s)...

Here is that link.

Lincoln Cent Errors Discovered in Virginia - Numismatic News

Cool that you can find multiple stages of a die error in its various stages by searching pocket change.  

Studying how a die deteriorates over time is fascinating.

I showed some of the error coins I've found before.  Even though it is rare to find a significant variety or error, it can be done if you are patient.

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Source: MagicSeaweed.com

So it does look like a slight increase in surf coming up in the next few days.

Good hunting,

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