Hi, I went out with a couple of friends just for a couple of hours after work one night, and we were on one of my favourite permissions. We didn't have a lot of finds, just the odd penny and half penny pieces of lead and buttons, and at this point was happy enough with the finds we had got.
Then I had one of the best signals of the night and began to dig it. To my surprise, I dug out at about 4 inches, a thick large hammered coin which I thought must be a forgery or something like that as it was so thick. So after the initial excitement of this find we carried on till it started to go dark and then headed off home.
Whilst washing the finds and then looking at this thick coin, I realised it had got a rim all round the edge and at this point we all realised it was actually 2 hammered coins stuck together. They turned out to be a James I shilling and a Charles I shilling both stuck together perfectly.
We concluded that they must have been dropped in a small coin pouch that had held the coins together for 400 odd years or so and the pouch had since rotted away.
Thanks and please see attached video of the find and actual separation of the coins.
John - UK
