Monthly Archives: November 2015

NEW BOOK – Tokens and Traders of Kent in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Posted on November 18, 2015 by David

​THE PROVINCIAL TOKEN-COINAGECoins traditionally contained the value of the metal they were made from, less a nominal amount for the monarch and mint master and could only be produced by Royal decree. By the sixteenth century the penny and its fractions had been reduced in size by inflation becoming inconveniently small to manufacture and use. […]

Categories: Metal Detecting Finds

Antique English Spoon Found in Sweden

Posted on November 11, 2015 by David

​Photo shows spoon with touch or maker’s mark insetI recently received this letter:My name is Anders from Stockholm, Sweden. I am writing to you with hope that that you might be able to bring some further clarity over a find my great grandmother made some 70 years ago. While digging in her garden she suddenly found an […]

Categories: Metal Detecting, Metal Detecting Finds, Treasure Hunting

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