Gutted Wen Fings Aint Wot They Sim- Honest

Some news from the toiletless dig at Moreton-in-Marsh

Paul Howard Admin 1 h
1 x Gold Roman now from our Moreton-in-Marsh permission, Always hammered and Roman to be found, we’ve done a few visits now but it just keeps giving and yesterday we had a go on a new 50 acre area and had a silver Roman and hammered and gold half sovrin, We will be doing the new 50 acre again but we now also have the 100 acre site we’ve done a few times and had the 1st gold Roman been ploughed and is ready for us to book so keep eye on events I’m going to get us back their in next few weeks, also has lots hard standing parking

Lee DjIlla B Booth: Nice Paul , it’s not everyday you see gold Roman coming out the ground hope you well fella

Lorraine Maud Awesome

Gary Molloy Congratulations to the finder,awesome

Paul Howard Gutted just seen a live video of the what looked like a gold roman but it turns out it’s a lead farm token that in Kevin’s pics looked gold but def isn’t

According to finder, a
 farm token not worth
reporting to the landowner.

Oh def. This "lead token" with a goldy sheen has an inscription on it TI CAESAR DIVI - AVG F AVGVSTVS and on the reverse PONTIF and the rest is worn... That's really quite interesting for a lead farm token, I would say the landowner should jolly well get that valued before he gives it away, it could be worth quite a bit to a collector of funny-looking-lead-farm-tokens-found-by-metal-detectorists. Especially as this one has that attractive golden sheen to it (must be the artificial chemical fertilisers that did that). I think this should be recorded by the PAS, and I hope they manage to contact "Kevin".

I can't help wondering why a "farm token" would be made to look just like a slightly worn aureus of Tiberius - like the ones that the finder could locate on a dealer's website like here (prices up to 16000$). Rauch (sale 108) had three for about 3-4000 euros and there are several sellers listed in CoinArchives (Leu et al.) that have them at a hefty price ticket too, even for ones in quite grotty condition like the LGD one. This is why I think a "lead farm token that is def not a valuble Romin coin" is especially interesting, I wonder what the landowner thought of it when the finder showed him and asked if he could take it? Maybe when the FLO has recorded it, he could interview the landowner and it would make a very interesting post for the PAS blog, about public attitudes to the past, the metal detectorists out there for the "love of history (and not the money)", the landowner that wants to share the history of his land with the public. 

Now you may be saying, "Paul, this photo shows what clearly IS a Roman coin", but you'd be wrong, we have the word of the finder AND Mr Howard that this is not the case, and as we all know, LGD events take place on the basis of a contract (and mutual trust) between the landowner and the person responsible for his members' conduct on that property, and that contract states clearly that high-value items (such as an aureus of Tiberius) would be reported to the landowner and a financial settlement agreed. So this CAN'T be an aureus of Tiberius can it, that would mean the metal detectorists were ripping off the landowner... and surely nobody suspects that metal detectorists would do anything like that. No, this must be lead - but let the PAS see it and record it just to make sure.