April 19th started out as a normal Sunday morning dig with my local detecting group. We were revisiting a field that we had detected on quite a number of occasions near Lichfield, Staffordshire and good targets were in short supply as many different types of detector had been over this land. I had been experimenting with some new settings on my Explorer SE Pro and so I was detecting very slowly and carefully trying to make sure I understood the different sounds from my new settings and didn’t miss anything. For a while I found nothing of great interest but then I picked up a faint signal that excited my curiosity. It was a bit iffy so I removed some earth to see if the signal improved, which indeed it did. Putting the spade in to a full blade depth I removed a clod of earth towards the bottom of which was a denarius of Carausius in a really nice condition. I knew that Carausius denarii were seldom found but I had no idea the amount of interest that this coin would create.