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Big king... Small coin

30 Dec 2020

The day had been a quiet one really a couple of Georgian and Victorian coppers and not a lot else and a cold and very muddy day was had. With not much coming up me a mate decided a new field was needed and headed over to a very sticky clay and stone filled stubble field after a hour or so my phone rang and turned out my friend had a small hammered coin, so with this information I headed over to a similar area in the hope of finding a hot spot. On the way to meet him I found a medieval pot leg and a large heraldic medieval weight so things where looking up. Then I got a good signal that once out the ground I couldn't get my pin pointer to pick it up at all, so I searched again with the equinox and sure enough it was somewhere out the hole, after maybe 15/20 minutes of sifting through thick sticky clay I finally saw a tiny silver disc with an even tinier cross on it....... Surely it couldn't be a hammered coin that small!!!! I picked it up and it was, the smallest tiniest little coin stuck to the clay on my glove, I shouted over to my mate and carefully walked over to him so he could pick it out the clay I was so scared to drop it as I would never find it again. We looked at it and were completely clueless as to what it was so a post to a Facebook coin group was posted. Within a minute or so the reply came its was a Henry VIII farthing and an incredibly rare find. The chances of finding such a small coin must be slim be once again the equinox picked it up perfectly.... So the smallest coin from the biggest king was found

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