British gardeners find coins and other relics while pulling weeds.
RogerB
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No immense finds, but interesting. Wonder what is buried under the lawn?
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Finds like this get my adrenaline surging.
Yeah -- makes you want to go plow the south forty! .. or maybe pull some dandelions.
I'm gonna start pulling weed in the park around old statues !
That stuff is just so exciting. Like the man said: it all connects us with history. It must be wonderful to be in Europe and in places of even greater antiquity, knowing you could come across coins like this quite by serendipity.
Here's a warning parable for coin collectors...
Finds such as those are metal detectors dreams.... sure, many just detect parks and yards... but others here in the North East detect old cellar holes and colonial farm land...Cheers, RickO
I like the fact that the finders didn't play an elaborate game of "finders keepers, losers weepers", even if the losers are long gone. Sure there are a lot of ways around the laws designed to get things properly sorted out, but reporting is usually the best way as here; also many people will now be able to enjoy them with real scientific minds trying to get to the bottom of the mystery.
Cool finds for sure!
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If anyone wants to come pull weeds at my place in search of coins please PM me for the address
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
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When I was a child collector I bought an 1851 Silver Three Cent Piece from a woman who said she found it while plowing a field. She said she saw something shiny in the dirt after she turned over the soil. The coin was a no problem VF for which I paid her $3 which was a fair price in the 1960s.
Interesting. I've never collected children -- well, other than my own two.
How do you get them authenticated and graded? Do the slabs grow with the children?
Sorry for the wording.
I was in 5th grade at the time.
Heck, I never got that far. We paid teachers in chickens and root vestibules (thanks, spellcheck) -- just like in Oklahoma now.