Reply With QuoteWOW, that looks like an Edward groat/half groat of some form, it’s known as a hammered coin and made of silver.
Found this amongst the stones on my driveway and looks pretty old. The barn I live in dates back to the 1700's but the coin looks older.
I've asked a friend to come over with his metal detector as I'm hoping there's going to be a load more of these and will clear my mortgage :-)
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WOW, that looks like an Edward groat/half groat of some form, it’s known as a hammered coin and made of silver.
Last edited by murkeywaters; 4th October 2019 at 21:08.
If you can post images of the coin both sides next to a ruler and I’ll try and get an accurate ID for you including mint, it’s medieval so way before 1700’s, previous owner of your house may have been a detectorist and dropped it on his drive, what part of the country do you live?
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Good spot!Originally Posted by murkeywaters
https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/cal...7/Default.aspx
Thanks both.
I live on the South Northants and North Oxfordshire border, close to Brackley. I found the coin on a stoned driveway area, which clearly has been imported from somewhere.
It looks to have a female face on one side of the coin but it's pretty battered.
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So the expert I know on another forum who is very accurate thinks it is a Henry VI London mint.
To get more detail a good tip is get some tin foil, fold it over the coin and spit in it, gently rub the surfaces together, you should now smell eggs, that’s the reaction of silver and aluminum making sulphur, this will clean and brighten the high parts of the coin revealing more detail and a better looking coin.
Probably best not to do this on rare coins but normally it’s fine for hammered silver.
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Looks a bit like this https://www.gmcoins.co.uk/product/ed...-period-groat/
Thanks everyone. I’m loathed to rub tin foil on it so will give it a bathe in hot water and fairy liquid and see whether this cleans it up
The point of tin foil is it cleans up the high points and keeps the patina in the low areas, many detectorists use this method, if it does come up with a lot more detail post them up and the expert will give you an accurate ID.
Spit and foil video..
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On this coin in the link you can see on the bust side it says EDWARD, the OP’s might say HENRIC which will make it a Henry.
Cleaned up should reveal the king.
That sounds like alchemy! Purpose of aluminium is to convert silver sulphide (the black tarnishing) to hydrogen sulphide (the smelly gas).
Can also use baking soda and aluminium, videos on YouTube.
That'll be Roman then I guess?
Aarrgghh!! No fairy liquid!
Strange you didn’t get the eggy smell? Anyway it’s the bust side I need to see cleaned up, look for EDWARD OR HENRIC and we’ll be a bit closer to an accurate ID, here is a Henry VI half groat.
Last edited by murkeywaters; 5th October 2019 at 23:42.
The crown looks like the Edward groat as suggested previously
I also think that the three letters between 10 and 12 o’clock look like the ARD of EDWARD in the specimen picture above.
Just my opinion, not an expert but find this stuff in interesting, so thanks for posting.
Last edited by alfat33; 9th October 2019 at 16:32.
Thank you. Hopefully over the next couple of weeks I've got a metal detector arriving to see what else I can find - anything of interest I'll post here.The crown looks like the Edward groat as suggested previously
I also think that the three letters between 10 and 12 o’clock look like the ARD of EDWARD in the specimen picture above.
Just my opinion, not an expert but find this stuff in interesting, so thanks for posting.
In the meantime I'm looking for a little display case to put the coin in to stick it on the wall.
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