[SunkenCiv]

A 1,600-year-old Siliqua Lugdunum coin. Three friends have discovered a Roman hoard worth tens of thousands of dollars during a weekend camping trip in rural England. The group were staying in a field near the ancient village of Pewsey, in Wiltshire, when they found the treasure trove six paces from where they had pitched their tent.

Noonans via PA

[CFW]

Obviously, I’m camping in the wrong locations. Could someone provide a map as to where these treasures are located? Maybe I would have better luck if I had a map.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

I’ll add here that the UK show “Detectorists” was amazing.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Wow, what a find! You have to wonder how much great buried treasure still lies below our feet all over the world.

Interesting related tidbit..."According to The Guinness Book of World Records, a Samian Silver Tetradrachm struck in Zankle (modern-day Messina) in Sicily is the earliest coin with a date. It is dated year 1 (viz 494 BC) in the form of the letter ‘A’ at one end.

A Silver Penning (penny, pfenning, denier, denar) is the earliest Christian Era or AD dated coin. This coin was struck and/or issued by the Bishop of Roskilde, Denmark. This silver coin features a bishop’s hat on the reverse and a crown on the obverse. It includes the legends +ANNO DOMINI on the obverse and the AD date MCCXXXIIII (1234) on the reverse. As the earliest European coin with a date, it is without a doubt, one of the most important pieces in European numismatic history."

Obverse: Crown surrounded by legend.
Lettering: ANNO : DOMINI +
Translation: In the year of our Lord

Reverse: Miter (bishop's hat) surrounded by legend.
Lettering: M : CC : XXX : IIII : +
Translation: 1234

Edge: Smooth.

Comments: This is the oldest known coin type with a Gregorian date. Seven examples are known, with only one in private hands.

[lefty-lie-spy]

Nice find. I dug up some late 1800s, early 1900s coins, including one silver from 1923, and two 18k / 24k gold rings this week, but no hoard yet. It’s been a good year metal detecting for me so far. Tomorrow I’ll be doing it underwater with my scuba diving club.

[Adder]

Yeah, yeah...siliqua and miliarense coins...I think those are mine. Our family has an old tale about having to run from some screaming blue meemies around that time.
Thanks for finding them for us.

[muir_redwoods]

As a kid in Connecticut the most common summer employment was working tobacco. In a broad left fired I found a 1735 English penny with a deep score mark, probably from a plough, diagonally across the obverse of the coin. It was in pretty bad condition and such coins are pretty common so it wasn’t worth much but it was a neat find thinking it had been in that patch of soil for 230years at that point.

[Tennessee Nana]

My chances of a Roman soldier ancestor gets better ...

Lots of my English ancestors lived in Wiltshire ...

(For some reason I love Italy I feel ‘at home’ there)

:)

[Godebert]

Eugenius (392-394), Siliqua, Lugdunum. AR (g 1,68; mm 15; h 12). D N EVGENI VS P F AVG, Pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust r.; Rv. VRBS ROMA, Roma seated l. on cuirass, holding Victory on globe in r. hand and inverted spear in l.; LVGPS. RIC 46