#coin collecting

[vonnart]

New Coins! This one is for all the late night readers and bookworms out there! 📚

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#art #artist #coins #bookblr #books #coin collecting

[corvidsofthedeep]

No Context Crow #27: Coins and Crows

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#crows #corvids #corvidae #birds #animals #photography #coins #coin collecting #alternative title was going to be 'a quarter of a crow' #but then i relized that was a canadian coin #(p.s. sorry it's late and also for the missed crows! #finding these is harder than you think. might consider seeing if anyone wants to help out? idk) #No Context Crow No. 27 #daily crows

[blueiskewl]

Carrot Harvest Helped Metal Detectorist FindA Ancient Coins Hoard

When Alan Baxter found a medieval ring in a farmer's field he knew there could be more ancient artefacts nearby - but the stubble from the thick oat crop made it difficult for his metal detector to get anywhere near the ground. So he waited.

Four years later the farmer had planted and harvested carrots.

"It must have had a deep plough when the carrots got lifted and I could get my detector right to the soil," the 44-year-old said.

"Every 3ft I was getting a signal. I couldn't move, there was stuff everywhere.

"I didn't want to go home."

The highlight of his haul in 2022 was a hoard of farthings from the reign of 15th Century Scottish King James III.

"I got my first one and I knew it was really rare because I know my coins," he said.

"After that it was just like a tap, it just kept on going, and over the course of a few weeks I pulled 52 of them."

The 500-year-old coins, which were made of copper and were worth a quarter of a penny, were in very good condition, Mr Baxter, from Falkirk, said.

The coins are irregular shapes. They have the Saltire - the cross of St Andrew - on one side and a crown on the other.

"To hold something that's hundreds of years old for the first time is extraordinary," he said.

"You get a real buzz going up and down your body which lasts all day and all night."

An expert at the National Museum of Scotland said it was the first hoard of James III farthings to be found since 1919.

Metal detectorists need to ask for permission from landowners to search on their land and anything they find must be handed into the Treasure Trove for analysis and recording.

Under Scottish law all finds of archaeological, historical or cultural significance must be reported and can be claimed by the Crown.

Neither detectorists nor landowners have ownership rights to any archaeological finds made in Scotland. Finds that are allocated to a museum through the Treasure Trove system are usually acknowledged by an award paid to the detectorist.

Detectorists generally split the money with the landowner.

Mr Baxter has detected at many sites, all of which he keeps a closely guarded secret. They include the 14-acre fields in Fife where he has now found more than 500 pieces ranging from the Bronze Age to the medieval period.

"I go along to farmers' doors with my portfolio of previous finds and show them what I do and ask them for permission to detect on their land," he said.

"You try to make yourself presentable, you put gel in your hair and wash your car and turn up in nice clothes.

"I hate getting permission because it's quite awkward speaking to the landowner. Farmers are busy and the last thing they want to do is speak to a wee guy asking for metal detecting permission."

The James III hoard has been put into the British numismatics journal, which charts the best finds in the country.

It also includes two Balliol coins which Mr Baxter discovered at the site in Fife. These farthings are extremely rare and are the only two to have ever been found in Scotland.

John Balliol reigned as king of Scotland from 1292 to 1296.

The find was allocated to the National Museums of Scotland and £5,000 was paid out.

Mr Baxter has also found 69 medieval coins from the reign of English King Edward I, whose armies invaded Scotland at the end of the 13th Century.

The medieval ring, which was his first find on the Fife site, dates between the 13th and 14th century.

"Initially I thought it was a bottle top because when it came out of the ground I could see the silver edges," Mr Baxter said.

"I saw the writing at the side and the big clasped hands at the front and I thought: 'That's a medieval ring'.

"It was just a great feeling to see it because it was a sunny day and it was twinkling away and it was in really good condition because it's been coated in gold, which has protected it from the soil."

Mr Baxter, who works as a lab technician, said he believed it was a betrothal ring.

"It would have been a higher status individual who owned it," he said.

"It weighs 9.5g, it's a heavy piece. A medieval penny would weigh about 1.2g, so that's about seven medieval pennies, so it wouldn't have been a peasant who owned that at the time."

The ring is silver but it has been coated in gold. It was eight inches down in the ground when his detector picked it up.

Mr Baxter, who has written a book entitled Making history: My Life As a Scottish Metal Detectorist, said it was hard for people to understand how difficult it was to find ancient artefacts.

He said: "In a general field 90% of the time there will be nothing in it.

"You could go in all the fields on the right and left along the M9 from Falkirk to Edinburgh and there would be nothing in them apart from modern Victorian stuff or Georgian stuff.

"It's hard to get stuff that's beyond 500 and 600 years old because the population was a lot lower."

Mr Baxter said a field could be full of medieval items, but detectors were not going to find them if the crops were too high.

"Then it comes down to knowledge and the best conditions," he said.

"You need to know that the crops need to be soft cut.

"Barley and wheat is softer than oats. When oats get cut the stubble is really hard.

"And obviously the carrot harvest was the best."

By Angie Brown.

#Carrot Harvest Helped Metal Detectorist FindA Ancient Coins Hoard #Alan Baxter #Scottish King James III #coin hoard #coin collecting #hoard of farthings #metal detecting #ancient artifacts #archeology #archeolgst #history #history news #ancient history #ancient culture #ancient civilizations #medieval #middle ages #dark ages

[circulating-eel]

for the coinon a few months back who wanted to see more fish coins……. carp for you:

#my coins #coin collecting #numismatics #guernsey #coins #carp #fish

[myriadsystem]

Please reblog, im really curious about the collection tendencies of the autsim webbed site, tell me about what you collect in the tags!

#personal #polls #i just noticed how many feathers i have. i have a lot of cool rocks too but i have more feathers than i realised #and i think id prefer funky feathers as a gift just ever so slightly #tell me what you collect and how much of it you have! #i was going to add an option for both scrapbooks and photos etc and also for pins and badges and keyrings but #i feel those arent forraged in the same way. made with love sure but not likely to be found on the ground #uhh #vulture culture #taxidermy #ocean #sea #birds #flowers #scavenger #autism #cool rocks #bone collecting #coin collecting #collection #goblincore #cottagecore

[five-crows-in-a-trenchcoat]

Hey, I’ve got this dollar coin with an E engraved in the back that I’ve been meaning to ask about for a while- does anyone know what it means? (Yes it is a legitimate coin, the colour difference is just lighting)

#please rb and spread this around I rlly wanna know what this damn coin mean #coins #coin collecting #dollar coin #australian dollar

[holmesoldfellow]

100th Anniversary of the "Return of Sherlock Holmes" Coin Set by Gibraltar (1994)

#these go for like $5k but these are legal tender. how funny would it be to hand one over for the worth of less than a penny #also these were available in gold silver and nickle #but i have yet to see a gold one online #sherlock holmes #the return of sherlock holmes #holmes #coins #coin collecting #coin set #gibraltar #the final problem #the three garridebs #the hound of the baskervilles #the mary celeste #the empty house #sherlock holmes collectibles #holmesian #merchandise

[anguilliforme]

ayoo..... coin.

eels conquering the world coin. for you anon.

#eelposting #eels #coin collecting #sorry about the lighting its 11pm and all i have are The Rainbow

[newhampshireofficial]

Does anyone have a spare $200,000 so i can buy the 1776 New Hampshire coin?

#new hampshire #coin collecting #i need it

[famousfor15]

Why are they called Hobo Nickels?! 🚂 During the depression, men traveling the railroads would carve Buffalo Nickels to trade for goods or services since they lacked any real funds!

#art #street art #hobo #hobos #hoeboys #hoeboy #trains #train hopping #skull art #skull aesthetic #coins #coin collecting

[jelly-o630]

I have achieved something magnificent today

After years and years of searching, scanning every single coin I come across and feeling disappoint with every glance of my eyes I FINALLY found it sitting with all the other quarters in the little quarter section in my cash box at work

The last of the American statehood quarters

A 2009

AMERICAN

SAMOA

LOOK AT IT IT’S SO BEAUTIFUL I LOVE IT SO MUCH

#this is actually the greatest thing that has happened to me in a while #I am at a greater emotional high than when I found out I passed my midterms #the culmination of 10 YEARS of collected to finally find this last coin #words canNOT express what this means to me #collecting #quarters #2009 American Samoa #coins #coin collecting #I will show a picture of the completed folder when I get back from work #I am SO EXCITED to press it into place

[vvussyboy]

Stuff I’m selling in an attempt to pay for the shit I gotta pay so I can care for me in-need fiancé - wanna get the financial aspects settled this month or no later than the first of April. Feel free to make an offer on the things listed for sale - I am very open to taking less than the prices listed.

He needs someone to take care of him in mid/late May 2024 and has no one but me. Selling my belongings is going to really ensure that we’ll both be taken care of when I’m with him, but also help me pay for travel expenses sooner rather than later which is essential. The sooner the better, both because I’ll feel more secure and less anxious but also because it’ll more likely be less expensive and there are time limits we have to respect for me to be able to be allowed to travel as planned.

There’s also a book by Ursula Dronke regarding Heroic Poems that lovers of Norse mythology may really dig, a marvel art book, a 2000+ year old Roman coin and a few other records not shown above. I’ll post more as time goes on.

Thanks folks! Please share!

#Pearl Jam #record collection #Norse pagan #Roman coin #coin collecting #captain america

[sodapop--stims]

Penny Measuring

Please credit if you use my gifs!

#penny #pennies #penny measuring #penny sclipture #sclipture #copper #brown #clicky #money #coins #coin #coin counting #coin collecting #stim #stimmy #stimming #stimblr #sensory #gifs #stim gifs #gifset #hands #metal

[circulating-eel]

no idea if this counts as a part of the eel collection, but i have a finnish mint 2018 euro set with a european eel token. it’s even got an eel folder!!

#my coins #eel coins #? #coin collecting #numismatics #finland #coins

[mbrainspaz]

I was going to get some rest. Unfortunately I woke up at 4:30am absolutely certain that I had lost the weird USSR coin I found on the ground the other day and couldn't go back to sleep because I couldn't stop thinking about where I'd put it and where it might've fallen or what if I'd vacuumed it up accidentally and it was probably gone forever, such a strange little thing coming in to my life so unexpectedly just to vanish again, a mystery forever open ended.

then I got up to make coffee after my 3rd alarm went off, just as I was starting to fall back to sleep, and took a detour to check if the little coin was where I thought I'd left it on the counter. It was.

#hell brain #coin collecting #adhd problems #couldn't sleep #a USSR penny for your thoughts #I put it in my coin collection where it won't haunt me anymore

[underestimated-heroine]

hey so this is random but i have an ancient coin and no clue where to start figuring anything out about it?

I actually got it for free from Mercari because there was a mailing issue and the seller was generous enough to take responsibility. he refused to take my money.

I'll say firstly it does NOT look like it was stored properly (if there's such a thing? idk i don't actually collect coins honestly) and a small edge seems to have been broken off a long time ago.

I CAN tell you it looks copper. It says "Ptolemy III Lotus Blossom" on the package in pen and if you look, you can see there's a faded lotus-like design on the middle on one side, circled neatly in points or dots worked out of the metal (the fraction taken off bites into the circle just a tiny bit, though it's also rather faded on that side).

because of the glare from the packaging i'm struggling to get a good pic of it but if anyone who knows anything happens to see this and can tell me anything about how to get it properly "entombed"/displayed or whatever it would be much appreciated. i have tried to do a bit of research but sort of not had great luck, though I haven't gotten as serious as I should've with it yet.

in any case, thanks to anyone who read this, and sorry for my lack of knowledge and subsequent bad tagging.

#ancient coins #coin collecting #coin collection #archaeology #ptolemy iii #ptolemy III Euergetes #history #egyptian history #ancient coin #posts actually written by me