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This page was last updated 3 September 2007
Thank you to Charles Wood who sent in the excellent pictures and text below.
I got this great Henry VII half-groat dated around 1500 from a club dig in July. I picked up a really worn hammered penny early on in the dig, then got this beaut in the same spot just five minutes later. It turned out to be a quiet dig and everyone left at 2pm when thunderstorms came in, leaving just five of us detecting. A cloudburst soaked the whole area and within a short space of time I had found a Henry VII sovereign penny and another club member had found a second Henry VII half-groat. 3 hammereds in a day - it just goes to show there isn't any such thing as an 'empty' field!
Many Thanks to Paul Lovegrove for sending the pictures shown below of a Charles 1st Crown dated 1630.
Charles found this one at a recent club dig in hampshire
Rosemary Calfe sends the picture below of an Edward hammered.
Jason found the Queen Anne sixpence shown below on a Hampshire club dig
This coin is dated 1708.
Club member Paul Lindfield found the lovely French hammered coin shown below on a recent club dig in Wendover The coin is of Charles the bold duc of burgundy 1467- 77.
Club member Ian West found the cut short cross shown below within 10 minutes of his first Weekend Wanderers dig in
Hertfordshire. Ian says ... I thought it was from one of the Henrys ( 1154-1189 ) but I'm not sure. Perhaps someone
could identify it? It was about 4 inches below the surface and I found it with my Whites XL Pro.
Thank you to Paul Lindfield who found the cut half shown below on a recent club dig
We think this may be a Henry 1 cross fluery type.
Many thanks to Malcolm Beagle for sending me the pictures below of a recent find made on a WWDC dig in North Oxfordshire.
Malcolm tells us it’s a James I Penny (rather clipped) 3rd Issue 1619-1625.
Lee Miller from Shepperton would like help identifying the following very small finds
I will pass on any e-mails to Lee.
Lee Miller from Shepperton sent me lots of pictures of his 2004 finds.
This Queen Victoria silver three pence is one of those finds.
As is the Charles 2nd two pence shown below
Lee Miller from Shepperton sent me lots of pictures of his 2004 finds.
This Henry VII Profile Groat is one of those finds
Lee Miller from Shepperton sent me lots of pictures of his 2004 finds.
This George 3rd Silver sixpence is another of those finds.
Thanks to WWDC member Brian Wilkinson who sent me the picture of his excellent find of a King Coenwulf of Mercia silver penny Brian tells me the coin was minted in London and the Moneyers name is Wighard.
Coenwulf was King of Mercia from 796 to 821.
Many Thanks to Michael Skinner who sent me the pictures below of his very first silver find which was revealed by his Minelab Explorer II
The coin was Identified for us by Paul Shields as an Edward I
penny minted in London
(CIVITAS LONDON). Paul says ... I am reasonably sure of this because of
the style E at the beginning obverse legend for EDW, Edward II's are
different. From what I can see in the picture the king's drape consist of
two inward pointing triangles which join in the middle and although I am
not exactly sure on the class without seeing the coin for myself I think I
can narrow it down to the following. Classes 2A, 3D or 4C.
.......... Thanks Paul
Many thanks to Gilles Belley for sending me the excellent pictures below.
Gilles wife Johanne found the lovely silver penny of William the Conqueror shown above at our Easter 2004 dig.
Thanks to Paul Croesus for sending me the pictures below of his hammered find from our recent Bedfordshire dig.
Paul tells me the coin is a Henry II ADAM ON WINC circa 1180-1189.
Thanks Paul.
A very nice Charles 11 two pence found on a club dig by Wayne Davey.
Thanks to Wayne and Pete Brown for sending me the scans.
Club member Paul Shields found the coin below with his Whites MXT at a club dig in Buckinghamshire
Elizabeth I Theepence , Mint mark Coronet
Third issue/regular issue 19mm flan Date 1570
Obverse
ELIZABETH D G ANG FR ET HIB REGINA - (Elizabeth by the grace of God Queen
of England France and Ireland)
Reverse
POSUI DEU ADIUTOREM MEU - (I have made God my helper)
Coin looks clipped but it isn't, this is just an irregular shaped flan!
It was nice to hear from Member Phill Jones that he had found his first ever Hammered silver coin on one of our recent digs.
Phill has done some research and tells me that he has identified the coin as an Elizabeth Sixpence dated 1596, the coin has a mint mark of a key which he looked up as a 5th issue.
Thanks to Pete Brown for sending us the pictures above of his recent Henry 8th hammered silver circa 1509.This coin is of the first coinage struck under Henry VIII but confusingly the portrait stayed Henry VII until I think his second coinage where you will see the younger bust of Henry VIII.
Thanks to Paul Shields for the extra
information.
Peter O'Connor sent me the pictures below of a Henry 8th Groat he found earlier this year on a WWDC dig in Hampshire.
Thanks for sending me the pictures Peter.
Graham Carrington sent me the pictures below of a Henry V11 half groat he found at a recent Buckinghamshire dig. A nice coin although rather clipped.
One of our members found the Silver coin shown below recently.
Can you help identify this coin.
Mick Sammons has been in touch and he says he has a coin just like this one, his was identified for him as a Spanish Reale.
Thanks Mick.
Thanks to Pip Rowe for sending me the picture below showing a nice James I sixpence dated 1604.
Pip found the coin above at one of our recent Buckinghamshire digs.
Club member Paul Shields was trying out his new Whites MXT at a club dig in Hampshire and found his first hammered penny pictured below
Paul thinks this coin is of Edward I minted in Canterbury possibly type 2 or 3 1280 onwards but could do with some help to properly identify it. Paul says, You know how hard it is to identify these Eddie pennies there's so many different types! I have translated the inscription as: Obverse EDW R ANGL DNS HYB, Edward King of England Lord of Ireland. Reverse CIVI TAS CANTOR, City of Canterbury. I hope you can help with this one, even though I have reasonable experience identifying these coins it is still very confusing.
Thanks to Gerry for sending in the pictures below of a beautiful Groat of Henry 6, not clipped or worn, found by Richard ( UK Explorers site owner) at our Creslow Rally.
Club member Paul Shields sent the picture below of his first ever hammered silver find, and a nice one it is too.
Paul said he was about to give up and go for a bite to eat before
setting out again in the afternoon when his detector beeped as he was on
the way back to his car and he found this lovely hammered sixpence.
Details
Elizabeth I hammered sixpence 26mm flan, date not fully legible 157? but
clear mint mark "eglantine" dates between 1573-77 minted in
London
Excellent Thanks Paul.
Many Thanks to Jerry Morris for sending me the lovely example of an Elizabeth Sixpence Dated 1573.
Wayne has been a member for about 3 months and found the Hammered shown below on a recent club dig.
The coin as can be seen is dated 1628 (Charles 1 reign) but does not seem to be one of his coins have you see one like this before ??
Thanks to Dave Ebbage who writes ......I am wondering if the first coin of 1628 might be a Spanish real as the symbol could be the bundle of arrows indicating Isabellas family.
I have had another e-mail from Zoltan in Holland who stated that this coin is not a Spanish real, but a so called "bezemstuiver" (broompenny) from the province Overijssel ( in latin Trasisvlania) in the Netherlands. So it's a Dutch coin.
Thanks to JPN for sending me the excellent picture above showing his finds from a recent Hampshire Wanderers dig.
Many thanks to John who sent an e-mail stating ....This wee coin was unearthed at a recent Hertfordshire club dig ( What quirk of History resulted in the coin being in rural Hertfordshire ....who knows?)
John had the coin identified by Sally Worrell, the Finds Liason Officer for the Portable Antiquities Scheme as a Spanish half Reale of Ferdinand and Isabella which was in circulation in the late 16th or possibly early 17th century.
The fine pictures below were sent to me by WWDC member Steven Fenton.
The picture above shows a Henry 3rd Voided Long Cross Penny which
came up from a depth of 6ins
at the end of the day on a one of our digs,
the field had over 70 detectors on it that day, there was dig holes to
the
left and in front of where Steven found the penny.
The coin pictured above is a Henry 7th 1/2 Groat dated circa 1490 - 1500 which was found on a Hertfordshire farm.
The picture above shows a Venetian solidno 1/2 penny which Steven found on an Oxfordshire farm.
Steve says ...... . I now have 21 hammered & 16 roman, 5 of the hammered came and 7 of the Roman came from Wanderers digs. My Cortes has made my finds rate shoot up!
Young Julian found the very nice Henry 7th type 2a Groat dated 1489 - 1493 on a recent Wanderers dig in Hertfordshire
The fine pictures below show a recent hammered find made by John on a wanderers dig in Hertfordshire.
The picture above shows a fine example of an Elisabeth 1st Sixpence dated 1569 found on a recent Wanderers dig in Surrey by John.
Many thanks to Peter Brown for sending me the pictures below of his son Benjamin's first hammered coin find and what a first find it was !!
Young Benjamin Brown aged 12 parked up with his dad at a recent wanderers dig and got out their detectors, Benjamin got out his Bounty hunter Tracker 1V which hadn't seen the light of day for about 8 months. He walked away from the car and after about 30 metres got his first signal, he dug up his find and came running over to Dad shouting is this a Hammered, Peter looked in his hand and said yes it was, he was over the moon and so he should have been as the coin turned out to be a Henry 6th penny or half penny dated 1422 -1471of the London mint, annulet issue.
Well done Benjamin and we hope this is the first of many for you.
Just in case you didn't know .....
Henry VI was the only child of Henry V and Catherine of Valois, born on December 6, 1421. He married Margaret of Anjou in 1445; the union produced one son, Edward, who was killed in battle one day before Henry's execution. Henry came to the throne as an infant after the early death of his father; in name, he was king of both England and France, but a protector ruled each realm. He was educated by Richard Beauchamp beginning in 1428. The whole of Henry's reign was involved with retaining both of his crowns - in the end, he held neither.Hostilities in France continued, but momentum swung to the French with the appearance of Joan of Arc in 1428. The seventeen year old was instrumental in rescuing the French Dauphin Charles in 1429; he was crowned at Reims as Charles VII, and she was burned at the stake as a heretic. English losses in Brittany (1449), Normandy (1450) and Gascony (1453) led to the conclusion of the Hundred Years' War in 1453. Henry lost his claim to all French soil except for Calais.
The Wars of the Roses began in full during Henry's reign. In 1453, Henry had an attack of the hereditary mental illness that plagued the French house of Valois; Richard, Duke of York , was made protector of the realm during the illness. His wife Margaret, a rather headstrong woman, alienated Richard upon Henry's recovery and Richard responded by attacking and defeating the queen's forces at St. Albans in 1455. Richard captured the king in 1460 and forced him to acknowledge Richard as heir to the crown. Henry escaped, joined the Lancastrian forces and attacked at Towton in March 1461, only to be defeated by the Yorks. Richard's son, Edward IV , was proclaimed king; Margaret and Henry were exiled to Scotland. They were captured in 1465 and imprisoned in the Tower of London until 1470. Henry was briefly restored to power in September 1470. Edward , Prince of Wales , died after his final victory at Tewkesbury on May 20, 1471 and Henry returned to the Tower. The last Lancastrian king was murdered the following day.
Many thanks to John for sending me the picture and text below, when John found this coin it was bent.
David Roberts sent me the pictures and text below of the Edward 3rd Groat he found recently in Buckinghamshire on one of our digs.
David believes that this coin is dated 1351 and was minted in London
The Elizabeth 1st Groat pictured below was found recently by Gerry on one of our Bedfordshire digs. As you can see in the picture on the left the coin had quite a severe bend in it which has been straightened as seen in the picture on the right.
( See the text below from Gerry's e-mail )
Step-1 heat the coin with a small blowtorch till its cherry red
Step-2 when it gets to cherry red drop it straight in to a glass of cold water
Step-3 put it between 2 bits of cloth covered planks and stand on it
It should straighten without cracking as mine did.
Oh and I was told if I want to restore the old colour to drop it into some bleach."
It should be noted that this method is NOT recommended by the Weekend Wanderers Detecting Club.
This hammered silver Edward 3rd Groat dated around 1351 was found on a recent Wanderers outing to Buckinghamshire by Mark.
A Very nice find Mark and thanks for letting me show it here.
Weekend Wanderer Dave found this lovely King Cnut Silver short cross lately.
The coin is dated around 1016 - 1035AD and is shown in Seaby's 1159.
Many Thanks to WWDC member Terry Waghorn for sending me the pictures below.
I think the coin in the picture is the reverse and obverse of an Edward 1st Farthing dated from between 1272 - 1307.
The lovely Henry 3rd hammered silver penny dated 1216 - 1272 pictured below was found by Simon Neal on a recent Wanderers dig in Hertfordshire.
Well done Simon and thank you for sending me the scans.
The lovely Henry 3rd hammered silver penny dated 1216 - 1272 pictured below was found by John Moore on his first visit to a Weekend Wanderers dig.
Well done John, lets hope this is the first of many with us and thank you for sending me the picture.
Julian found the coins pictured below with his XLT on a recent Wanderers dig.
We think the coin is an Edward the 2nd dated from 1307 - 1329, Julian was lucky to find the cut 1/4 shown above which was lost again whilst showing it around, after a few cars were moved he found it again with his probe.
Club member Tim Chandler made the finds below at a recent Buckinghamshire dig with his Minelab Explorer.
The hammered silver is an Edward 4th two pence dated 1461 - 1485, also shown here is a trade token dated 1663.
Many thanks to Fred for sending me the 2 scans below of the hammered silver coin he found on our recent Broughton dig.
The coin appears to be an Edward 4th Groat dated 1471 - 1483 (Seaby's
2096)
The 2 coins pictured below were found by WWDC member Ray on one of our digs on the Herts / Bucks border, they were Ray's first hammered coin finds for over 22 years. Ray tells me he last found a hammered silver coin in 1978 with his C-Scope BFO 10.
The pictures above show the obverse and reverse of Ray's Queen Elizabeth 1st penny dated around 1580 - 1600.
The pictures above show the obverse and reverse of Ray's Charles 2nd four-pence dated 1679. Thanks to Brian Taylor for correctly identifying this coin for me.
Congratulations to you Ray and thank you for letting me show your finds.
The hammered silver coin shown below is of Edward the 4th long cross penny dated from 1461 to 1470. Found at a recent Buckinghamshire dig by a club member.
The picture below shows an Elizabeth the 1st halfpenny dated 1582 to 1600, Keith found this tiny silver coin with his Tesoro Gold Sabre. (Seabys 2581)
Thanks for the correct ID Gerald.
Congratulations to WWDC member Phil who made his first hammered finds on a club dig in Oxfordshire recently, Phil found both of the hammered coins pictured below with his XLT.
The coin above is a William 2nd hammered silver penny dated 1087 - 1100.
Well done Phil and thanks for letting me show your finds here.
The lovely hammered silver coin pictured below was found recently by WWDC member Terry, the coin is a Henry 3rd penny and is dated at between 1251 - 1254.
It is different to others you may have seen before because this one was minted in Dublin with the purpose of financing Henry's French exploits.
Thank you for sending me the scan Terry.
Above is a Charles 1st shilling dated 1640.
The 2 pictures above were only a small selection of the finds made by Julian and Doris this weekend.
I would like to thank Weekend Wanderers member Mike Chambers who has been kind enough to send me the excellent scans of the coins below.
The coin pictured below was Mike`s first Hammered which was found with his Tesoro Silver Sabre and dug on a golf course construction site near Oxford. Mike thinks this coin is a Scottish Alexander.
Many thanks to Bob Gordon who E-Mailed me with the correct ID for this coin, Bob says " this is a penny of James lll 1460-88 and is a coin of the light issue of 1475. (seaby coins of Scotland Ireland and the islands 5279)
Mike also found the coin below near Oxford with his trusty Laser B1.
Mike thinks this coin is of Henry III which would date it 1216 - 1272, can any one positively identify this coin. All e-mail will be passed on to Mike.
I received an e-mail from Mike Shott and Mike says .. Henry III it certainly is, class Vh, the moneyer is RENAVD struck at London.
Thanks Mike.
At long last I managed to catch up with Gerald who has kindly allowed me to photograph his Henry 8th Groat dated around 1526 - 1544.
Gerald found this hammered Silver Groat on March 4th at our club dig in Buckinghamshire. Thank you Gerald for permitting me to show your find here.
These 2 nice coins were found by Weekend Wanderers member Mark Spinney at our Buckinghamshire dig on Sunday 27th February. Mark took the pictures with his Fuji digital camera and was kind enough to e-mail the pictures to us.
William 3rd Sixpence1696 Elizabeth 1st Shilling 1559
Well done Mark and thank you for sending me the pictures.
These 2 hammered Silver coins dated 1544/9 were found on Sunday 12th Sept at one of our Buckinghamshire digs.
The Henry 8th on the right is a posthumous Groat issued 1547-9
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