Posted on 10/24/2024 5:00:27 PM PDT by nickcarraway
my kid found a 1812 large penny 2nd day out with his detector by a old stone wall on our property.
Being in Florida, our acidic soil dissolves coins and other metals rather quickly.
I’ve found a few coins at parks, playgrounds, etc, but never anything historic.
Plus our local beaches are sieved every night by a tractor pulling a large screening device, so anything left on the beach by tourists is removed by the next day.
I envy the Brits and Europeans because they have thousands of years of history buried to discover................
"Coins in the 1,000-year-old hoard show signs of being illicitly tampered with.Experts say this is evidence that the person striking the coins was avoiding paying a fee to obtain an up-to-date design."
"Gareth Williams, a curator at the British Museum, said that making false coinage risked the severe penalty of having a hand cut off, at the time.
"The hoard shines fresh light on the aftermath of the Norman invasion and shows evidence of early tax evasion in Britain."
"Mr Williams said: "We can see from these coins that that wasn't a deterrent. It may even be that it was buried under a tree to mark the spot and the tree blows down in the storm and the person can't find it there."" "Evidence showed that whoever buried the hoard was involved in some way in the Battle of Hastings", he added."
"The coins would have bought a flock of more than 500 sheep and so belonged to "someone relatively wealthy"."
It is the largest Norman treasure find since 1833."
Wow, nice pix!
I wouldn’t mind a horde of pennies if I could get $89.00 each for them! Thanks.
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