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My recent metal detecting finds:
AncientCoinz
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I found these over 2 weeks of daily metal detecting.
Not to sure which ones are good ones.
I found at least 20+ Antoninus Pius. He must have been very prominent in the area where I am searching.
Here is a few I have identified:
IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P
ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P XVII
AED DIVI AVG REST
HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS
IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM P M TR P V
IMP CAESAR VESPASIANVS AVG
DIVA FAVSTINA
IMP C M AVR SEV ALEXAND AVG
Also found tons of Roman Fibulas, buckles and medical instruments.
I found these Bronze medical forceps which a museum told me that it was extremely rare to have one of this size and condition. At 5 inches long. Only one other know and it is in a University's historical artifacts collection.
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Wow, that's a nice haul.
I know! I found a lake that dries up during the winter and decided to go there and BOOM, hit the honey hole!
That is an amazing find!
Don't you have to declare these items as treasure finds?
Life member #369 of the Royal Canadian Numismatic Association
Member of Canadian Association of Token Collectors
Collector of:
Canadian coins and pre-confederation tokens
Darkside proof/mint sets dated 1960
My Ebay
It's in Ukraine. They do not have any such law/declarations.
Are any of these coins worth grading?
No. They are not worth grading. Third Party Grading has not really caught on for collectors of ancients.
SW part, near Odesa? Bilhorod-Dnistrovsky there is one of the 10 oldest cities in the world and has been Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman, Russian, Romanian, Soviet and now Ukraine.
Looks fantastic.
Just curious - did they come out of the ground looking like that or do ancients need to be cleaned first?
I used a Branson 0.75Gal Ultrasonic cleaner with spotfree dish soap. No chemicals.
This third sentence is something that doesn't get said often enough. While TPG for ancients is helpful for some people, many other people don't much care for it.
wow congrats !.