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Offline Marcus Aurelius

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Re: Anybody digg ancient coins?
« Reply #175 on: May 03, 2009, 06:10:36 am »
......also one intact 1-st century fibula

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Re: Anybody digg ancient coins?
« Reply #176 on: May 03, 2009, 05:09:33 pm »
Quote from: Marcus Aurelius on May 03, 2009, 06:06:17 am
  i have some bad arm injury so i did not hunt munch lately..therefore i did not post anything,but now i am doing ok and i hope i will be able to post some nice coins in the future.....

I hope it heals up all right.
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Re: Anybody digg ancient coins?
« Reply #177 on: May 03, 2009, 05:24:49 pm »
Hello
Well i practically grew up in Roman site,so i start to collect coins since i was a little kid ..... let me see,that will be about 35 years .. if i start with age 8   :laugh:
I used to have very nice collection,mostly denarii but now i have only one denarius,my first silver coin that i found together with my friend who died this year from cancer.....  That coin is priceless for me....
I have small collection of ceramics objects..like oil lamps,jars.....
This is my first silver coin..... Antoninus Pius  

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Re: Anybody digg ancient coins?
« Reply #178 on: May 03, 2009, 05:31:18 pm »

I hope it heals up all right.

Thank You very much Robert... i hope so  :laugh:



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Re: Anybody digg ancient coins?
« Reply #179 on: July 17, 2009, 03:57:03 pm »
your arm must have been healed by now. and its summer.
hows summer in sirmium ?

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Re: Anybody digg ancient coins?
« Reply #180 on: July 20, 2009, 06:13:42 am »
Marcus, I've been reading through this thread and I'm intrigued and admittedly jealous. I look forward to seeing your latest finds and wish you all the best! :)

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Re: Anybody digg ancient coins?
« Reply #181 on: August 11, 2009, 07:32:28 am »
your arm must have been healed by now. and its summer.
hows summer in sirmium ?

Hi Seth
Arm is much better now,thanks.... but  :D i felt down recently from the shed and broke few ribs.... so i don`t hunt much this days + it is summer...real hunt will start in autumn,after corn and sugar beat harvest....
I went only few times in last couple months and hunt in fields with burned wheat straw (some farmers still burn straw after harvest,and that is perfect for coin hunting)
Here is one silver Roman ring from my last hunt,and also one nice Trajan as...
What about you?Have some nice pottery?

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Re: Anybody digg ancient coins?
« Reply #182 on: November 26, 2009, 05:10:48 pm »
What a wonderful Trajan as, both for the portrait and for the figure of Roma with a Dacian at her feet (RIC says, and pl. XI, 206 from the dupondius): I can't read the long obverse legend fully.
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Re: Anybody digg ancient coins?
« Reply #183 on: November 26, 2009, 06:03:37 pm »
gosh how I envy those that can root about the countryside with  metal detectors and find interesting things.  I know in Florida after a storm they go out on the beaches to see if something has washed up.  Even if you did not find stuff every time it would be a nice outing. ;D  Unless of course if the authorities took a dim view of it

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Re: Anybody digg ancient coins?
« Reply #184 on: November 26, 2009, 10:37:06 pm »
gosh how I envy those that can root about the countryside with  metal detectors and find interesting things.  I know in Florida after a storm they go out on the beaches to see if something has washed up.  Even if you did not find stuff every time it would be a nice outing. ;D  Unless of course if the authorities took a dim view of it

Not necessarily coins, but when I lived in South Florida, I used to go canoeing down one of the several rivers there looking for fossils. We would find hundreds of bones of all types. I once found a partial skeleton of a giant sloth. And then there were the fossilized shark teeth. We found literally thousands of those. So even though the Romans didn't drop their spare change there, America has it's share of interesting things in the ground.

Marcus - any new finds?

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Re: Anybody digg ancient coins?
« Reply #185 on: November 29, 2009, 06:33:50 pm »
Check out my latest find....
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Re: Anybody digg ancient coins?
« Reply #186 on: November 30, 2009, 04:54:49 am »
Please post a larger picture and give size and weight. I could swear I've seen something
like this before.
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Re: Anybody digg ancient coins?
« Reply #187 on: November 30, 2009, 10:59:42 am »
Is that a slight trace of Goliath's blood on that rock?  It could be the very same sling-shot projectile used by David :)

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Re: Anybody digg ancient coins?
« Reply #188 on: November 30, 2009, 09:29:58 pm »
I remember how, in days gone by, it was possible to walk along the Florida Atlantic beaches at low tide and pick up coins by the handful. I never found anything valuable, though it was said that after a storm people sometimes found gold and silver from the sunken Spanish treasure ships. If they did they kept quiet about it. (See Aragon's comment about the authorities.)

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Re: Anybody digg ancient coins?
« Reply #189 on: December 01, 2009, 12:06:22 pm »
Check out my latest find....

Looks too small & smooth to be a genuine rock to me, unfortunately gardens these days tend to be full of pebbles masquerading as rocks, sorry I think its a fake ;)

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Re: Anybody digg ancient coins?
« Reply #190 on: December 01, 2009, 02:15:36 pm »
So, aarmale, are you going to give us a clue?

Is it a fossil? A gall stone maybe? ;D 

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Re: Anybody digg ancient coins?
« Reply #191 on: December 01, 2009, 05:16:19 pm »
Judging by its hardness, I think it may have been made 1,000,000,000 years ago, more or less  ;)
I've seen other similar specimens in my back yard, that are almost as well preserved as this one.  This one is one of my finest examples.

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Re: Anybody digg ancient coins?
« Reply #192 on: December 03, 2009, 05:18:59 pm »
A thousand million years is a long time. Not old enough to be a meteorite, but too old to be a fossil.
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