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speer34
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assignment. I finally got it. My first silver coin find while detecting has turned out to be a silver hammered coin from Queen Elizabeth I. I was getting worried that I wouldn't complete it, but this past week I managed the hammy that has been eluding me. You can partially make out the date, 15XX. I'm not quite sure of QE I's reign, but I think it is from around 1555 ish-early 1600ish. There isn't a lot of detail, but I'm happy for my first one.
Here are the pics. It is bent, but it's silver, it's a hammered and I am very happy.
Homework assignment complete. Can I come home now?
Here are the pics. It is bent, but it's silver, it's a hammered and I am very happy.
Homework assignment complete. Can I come home now?
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Excellent work Scott! In a very short time you really pulled it off! WTG!!
Way to go!! You've made some fantastic finds over the last few months!
Good luck with your move back to the States - I assume you've had to reserve a separate container for all the hoovers you've picked up here..
<< <i>(...) QE I's reign, but I think it is from around 1555 ish-early 1600ish >>
Indeed. 1559-1603.
<< <i>Homework assignment complete. Can I come home now? >>
I wouldn't want to!!!
(For those of you who might not recall, when he got his 'tector there in the UK, I gave him a homework assignment to find a Roman bronze coin and a piece of hammered silver. It's mission accomplished, now, and I must say a cause for celebration!)
How big is that coin? Maybe it's a sixpence? I think the sixpence are the most common QE1 coins, with dates, anyway? I could be wrong. With better pics I might be able to attribute it with the Spink book, but you or your local contacts might have the book and/or be more qualified to attribute it, anyway.
The "crooked sixpence" figures prominently in old English folklore and was the subject of a nursery rhyme.
<< <i>There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile,
He found a crooked sixpence upon a crooked stile.
He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse.
And they all lived together in a little crooked house >>
More on the history of the crooked sixpence as a love token.
The sixpence is also related to another rhyme, and an old wedding tradition.
<< <i>Something old, something new,
something borrowed, something blue,
and a silver sixpence in her shoe. >>
Normally I might try to straighten a bent coin find, but I would leave that particular one as it is- "crooked".