Rare Roman coin worth £60,000 found in field
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Rare Roman coin worth £60,000 found in field
Rare Roman coin worth £60,000 found in field near Stamford Bridge.
TWO metal detectorists say a Roman coin they have found in a field near Stamford Bridge could net them at least £60,000 – and will change the world’s understanding of Roman history...................
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/1005300 ... /?ref=erec
TWO metal detectorists say a Roman coin they have found in a field near Stamford Bridge could net them at least £60,000 – and will change the world’s understanding of Roman history...................
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/1005300 ... /?ref=erec
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Re: Rare Roman coin worth £60,000 found in field
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I wonder who came up with the figure of £60,000 ?
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Re: Rare Roman coin worth £60,000 found in field
Pre-auction estimate based on the last one that was available.
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Just reading on the Regton site that according to My R Bland this may be a copy. Jerry.
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Re: Rare Roman coin worth £60,000 found in field
If it is genuine it is incredible, thank you for posting the link.
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[quote="JBM"]Just reading on the Regton site that according to My R Bland this may be a copy.
His reasoning and explanation is worth reading as we are all on a never ending learning curve. Jerry.
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Re: Rare Roman coin worth £60,000 found in field
Roger's expertise is in Roman gold coins so one would imagine he'd know the difference. Mind you I wonder if the fakes are sometimes more important historically than the real thing. The real coins probably turn up more frequently than the copies one would imagine.
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Re: Rare Roman coin worth £60,000 found in field
I think it's funny that the guy that has said he thinks it's a fake
said it was faked in the 15th cent. then therefore must have been placed
out in a field in the hope it got found years later, that makes no sense at all?
Also another coin most likely struck from the same die was found inside a coin hoard
that is now in Germany, so that kinda rules out the fake statement
I know one of the finders and they told me that the estimate is now 80,000plus
and they could expect to perhaps reach a six figure sum for the coin
I hope it does
said it was faked in the 15th cent. then therefore must have been placed
out in a field in the hope it got found years later, that makes no sense at all?
Also another coin most likely struck from the same die was found inside a coin hoard
that is now in Germany, so that kinda rules out the fake statement
I know one of the finders and they told me that the estimate is now 80,000plus
and they could expect to perhaps reach a six figure sum for the coin
I hope it does
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Re: Rare Roman coin worth £60,000 found in field
I have just been reading Barfords Blogg he has got his teeth into this one.
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Re: Rare Roman coin worth £60,000 found in field
Fake or real it's NOT theirs to sell, it's the landowners property unless they have a proven agreement to the contray
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Legal Contracts were signedkev woodward wrote:Fake or real it's NOT theirs to sell, it's the landowners property unless they have a proven agreement to the contray
3 way split on the find i believe
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Re: Rare Roman coin worth £60,000 found in field
Please provide the link.Thanks.JBM wrote:Just reading on the Regton site that according to My R Bland this may be a copy. Jerry.
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Re: Rare Roman coin worth £60,000 found in field
I found a shield shaped weight, with a GR over Y( George 1st, York) counterstamp, according to my good friend Jim Halliday, this was proof that shield shaped weights carried on from medieval, postmedieval,and into Georgian times, a person who wrote a book on weights, declared it a forgery, As he declared shield shaped weights were, not used, by middle 16 C. Then he offered me cash for it!
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