[BGHater]

Amazing, he found it only 6 inches deep in the soil.

[BGHater]

Roman coin find ping.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

It should have the quadriga chariot on the other side. I have that particular type of coin in my own collection...

[The G Man]

The PAS have now told me the date that the coin would have been used is about 150 BC

I didn't think the Romans were there that early.

[Dudoight]

During the Roman occupation of Britain, I thought they really didn’t get into Wales that much. In other areas of England they are always finding Roman coins. I purchased a bunch up at Hadrian’s wall.

[devane617]

cool! wish i could help look for more...

[thefactor]

2 horses being driven by a man in a chariot?

looks to me like an alien octopus wearing a darth vader helmet.

[SunkenCiv]

well, it is a repeat, but I just took so much time finding the freakin’ topic that, just out of sheer orneriness (plus, in the process of the hunt I found a forgotten couple of other topics which also look interesting) I’m going to ping this one too. :’)

Metal detecting pensioner finds Wales’ oldest coin
Evening Leader | 20 February 2008 8:49 AM
Posted on 02/20/2008 3:46:01 PM PST by DeaconBenjamin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973641/posts

[<1/1,000,000th%]

It looks like he really cleaned it.

I would guess that its a barbarous copy of a Roman Republican coin with a Victory in Biga reverse, because there's no inscription.

It should look more like this:

(I know this is a different coin. I don't have access to my references here at work. Bummer.)

[SunkenCiv]

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