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Author Topic: How I ended up finding a Hammered Silver Sixpence...  (Read 2178 times)
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« on: July 12, 2010, 09:04:23 PM »
I went out detecting today, and within about 20 minutes I had come across a completely mangled silver thimble (my first silver one I must add), I was so pleased I found it but at the same time I was disappointed the condition it was in, and what's even worse is that the part I want to see where the Hallmarks would be is the part that's bent over, typical!! Next 5 minutes into detecting I came across a Jews Harp (My first of these as well) I must be honest and say I couldn't remember what this was called, although I recognized these before from pictures I had seen, until I looked it up again this afternoon. If anyone can tell me what a Jews Harp function was/is I would be grateful!!

I felt as though the day was going to get better and then, can you believe it, a tractor came and started fertilizing the grass (all my fields are pasture I might add) and I had no choice but to move on from this field. I was so disheartened, so I pretty much walked back to a field I have been in so many times before, and about 20 minutes into this I came across my first ever complete Silver Hammered Coin of Elizabeth Ist dated 1572 Smiley

I think you are noticing a trend with me, a "first" for everything, I have the biggest wish list you could ever imagine, and slowly but surely I am ticking them off, and I'm sure we all have our wish lists to fulfill Smiley You are wondering why I say my first complete Elizabethan coin, well that's because earlier on this year I found my first ever Elizabethan Coin, but it was a cut half (see picture). Now I believe this to be a cut Shilling, what's even stranger is the fact that whoever cut it, did not cut along the CROSS, which is what you were supposed to do back then!! So I am guessing not common at all?

So coming back my Silver Hammered I found today, it quite literally just sat there staring at me in the hole, I was expecting to be digging a Victorian Half Penny or something, but to see that coin was like a dream come true!!

Well all I can say is “THANKS” to that tractor for sending me off my course because it is quite possible, I may have never, ever stumbled across this coin!!
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« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2010, 09:09:34 PM »
very fice finds fella well done ,,sometimes the pooor weather will help us to get some surprising resuts ,nice 1 buddy.
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« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2010, 09:12:44 PM »
Thats a great result - nice to tick things off the list - I do the same!

Those fields sound promising for you.

Great post

cheers
Neil
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« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2010, 09:12:56 PM »
Nice going John and hope you get many more. The Jews Harp or to be PC the jaws harp is a musical instrument,It is one of the oldest recorded and can still be bought today in most music shops.
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« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2010, 09:13:04 PM »
Cracking finds  fella , on a lot of peoples wishlists no doubt. The Jews / Jaws harp would have had a thin reed of metal coming from the inner widest part of the circular end , the whole artifact put in the mouth and twanged. What size is the cut half and can you put up a pic of the other half ?
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« Reply #5 on: July 12, 2010, 09:18:47 PM »
For anyone that wonders what a Jaws/Jews harp sounds like
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« Reply #6 on: July 12, 2010, 09:24:04 PM »
Nice finds, well done. The half coin is broken rather than cut, probably hit by some sort of farm machinery Sad
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« Reply #7 on: July 12, 2010, 09:29:38 PM »
Thanks for the great comments so far guys and for the info on the Jews/Jaws Harp, going to look at that vid in a second. Here is a picture of the other side of that coin you asked for Rob. If anyone knows why it was cut like that, or indeed, were coins meant to be cut on the cross like I think they were meant to, please let me know. Cheers, Jon.
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« Reply #8 on: July 12, 2010, 09:32:32 PM »
Cut by machinery, that is a shame!! How did it manage to cut so cleanly in half though, I know the edges are rough to suggest it was done by the plough or something, but so exact in half?
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« Reply #9 on: July 12, 2010, 09:35:58 PM »
Its usually a case of it being bent over and the crease eventually cracking, so there is a good chance the other half is still there waiting for you.
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« Reply #10 on: July 12, 2010, 09:44:27 PM »
WELLDONE MR TALBOT.
lovely hammereds mate.nice jews harp too butty.
great finds.
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« Reply #11 on: July 12, 2010, 09:59:09 PM »
great finds m8 well done  Wink
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« Reply #12 on: July 19, 2010, 06:38:36 PM »
great finds there m8, im yet to find my first hammered  Sad
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