Ancient coin worth a pretty penny

CNN ^ | Thursday, October 7, 2004 | Spinks

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American collector Allan Davisson purchased the coin, which was found by an amateur searcher using a metal detector near the River Ivel in Bedfordshire, north of London, in 2001. It is the only known coin to bear the name of King Coenwulf of Mercia, who ruled a region of southern England from 796 to 821.

[SunkenCiv]

Read about the auction in the new Minerva (v 16 n 1), and did a search to find out what was online. The writer of that article bemoaned the possibility that the coin would be removed to America, or anywhere outside Britain. Wonder how he or she feels about the Elgin Marbles? ;')

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"Below are some pictures of fake Bulgarian 'uncleaned Roman' coins which were found end of 2003, early 2004 in batches of uncleaned coins sold by dealers all over the world."

http://www.catbikes.ch/coinstuff/coins-fakes.htm

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Uncleaned Ancient Coins (pros and cons)
http://esty.ancients.info/numis/uncleaned.html

[Holly_P]

I followed the link hoping to see a picture. At the CNN site I see a broken link where a picture probably is but I am using fire fox and maybe that's why it won't open for me. If anyone else can open the picture please post it here.

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[Holly_P]

Nice. Thanks.

[Androcles]

Great post (As ever). Keep up the good work...

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Thanks.

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The Sedgeford Hoard
Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project (SHARP)
http://www.sharp.org.uk/itemsofinterest/hoard.htm

"A hoard of gold staters inside a cow’s leg bone has been found in the last week of SHARP’s 2003 summer season. The discovery was made by Kevin Woodward, an RAF technician and regular SHARP volunteer, who was metal-detecting in the waterlogged area of the Boneyard-Reeddam excavation prior to shutting down the site. As well as the cow bone, eleven other dispersed staters were found nearby to add to the eight recovered since 1996. The cow bone itself was X-rayed and found to contain 20 more staters. Presumably all 39 coins had originally been hidden in the shaft of the bone, but later ditches and grave-cuts had smashed the bone and dispersed part of the hoard."

UK: While digging in backyard man unearths hoard of 20,000 Roman coins.
BBC On-Line | Thursday, 11 March, 2004 | staff writer
Posted on 03/11/2004 9:12:07 AM PST by yankeedame
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1095503/posts

Roman treasure found in pond dig:
A man unearthed a priceless hoard of 20,000 Roman coins...
BBC News | 3.11.04
Posted on 03/11/2004 6:24:10 PM PST by ambrose
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1095874/posts

Rare coin find stuns historians
Ananova | 2004 | editors
Posted on 07/19/2004 11:51:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1174622/posts

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