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3rd century Roman coins find.

My friend Rod and I detect together, we form the Gloucestershire Detectorists. We started to detect a new field on one of our permissions within Gloucestershire, UK and within a few feet from the track, I hit my first signal. Whilst I started to dig, Rod then hit his first signal, only a few feet from me. Much to my surprise the signal was a Roman coin circa 3rd century. I told Rod, not believing I had been so lucky on my first signal and to my utter amazement Rod tells me he had then found a Roman coin, which transpired to be of the same period.

 
We knew this just doesn’t happen, not for two people to find a Roman coin at the same time only metres in to a field. We knew there was likely to be more as it was too much of a coincidence the first two finds. We continued and sure enough, we soon had pulled up 8 Roman coins, one after the other, all nearby. It was then we knew we hat hit something truly special and so I immediately contacted the Finds Liaison Officer at the local museum. We report all finds to the FLO over 300 years old. By the time we had found a couple more, the FLO had contacted me directly and told me we had discovered a scattered hoard. Our excitement was through the roof as you can only imagine. 

To date and after 4 visits we have found 232 Roman coins from the 2nd to 3rd century AD, a contemporary forgery silver and a solid silver coin as part of this hoard. Moving further out of the hoard area, we have also found half of a 3rd century AD silver roman coin and an early Roman seal matrix. The hoard and ring will be entering the Treasure Process here in the UK.

 The NOX 10×5″ has been truly amazing hunting out these small coins. The pin point accuracy is not only amazing but invaluable when searching such targets. We actually want to obtain the 15″ NOX coil to help us search deeper and hopefully find the remaining buried hoard should it still exist. 

– Darren