the simple answer is............warm water and with a soft tooth brush, using any other method you can ruin either any remaining detail left on the coin or worse case scenario the coin itself. found items have been in the ground sometimes for centuries and because of this they acquire a patina, and ...

it will do you no harm at all to show your face at the farms around your chosen area, just remember to be polite and be prepared to get more knock backs than permissions, it goes with the territory mate, just dont take it personally and move onto the next farm. it is their land after all.

the best people/person to ask RE: detecting agreement is the landowner, as jc has mentioned councils are in most cases not the best landowners to approach as 99.9% of the time they say no, however there have been instances i have heard of where a detectorist has secured permission form their local c...

i have tried to gain permission on that land.......DAGNAMMIT!!!!

great post phil.

this is a little known fact but the trouble with the ones on amazon are that the prices are set using algorithms, so when there are few copies available the prices go up and when there are many copies available the prices go down.

yea, and it achieved much less then the reported £1m when it went to auction.

i hope you have deep pockets pete
have you tried phoning spink book dept? thats where i obtained my copy, or the publishers themselves. i must admit that it was getting to be like that yellow pages advert involving J R Hartley when i was trying to track a copy down.

now thats a stunning bit of yellow stuff...........and im not just talking about my dirty pants lololololol
i love the way the crown is in the radiate form, reminiscent of roman radiates and how the fingers are formed on the reverse.

just been on the local news tonight about them, rater worryingly is that the good old BBC gave the village location, which in itself might not be a closely guarded secret, but they also screened a picture of a field.....now this could or could not be the actual location on the finds but there is gon...

i know regton used to sell it but cant seem to see it on their website, give them a ring its only about £25 new. cant sell mine sorry.

talk for 90 minutes?.....blimey!
great idea about a directory of speakers.

fingers crossed.

my plans have now altered.......i am unable to attend now, boo hoo.

it does look a good book tom, i have on my hit list A History of Medieval Coinage in England by Sam Moorhead http://www.greenlightpublishing.com/PBSCProduct.asp?ItmID=12975992 he thoroughly recommended it when i met him not long ago during some Roman coin training at Liverpool, he makes no profit fr...