Beauty from the frozen beet field Anarchy Silver Penny + A few other bits :)

[Midasfrog]

Thought I would share some photos of my best ever metal detecting find from a few years ago . A King Stephen penny 1138 - 1154 from a period in Englands history of Civil war and Anarchy ( when SHTF )

The coin was found while metal detecting the tractor tram lines in a frozen field full of sugar beet plants. Coins of this type were struck using defaced dies . It was recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge on their EMC Early Medieval Corpus ( a record of early medieval single loss coins that have been found in England ) and is a rare variant of its type.

Can you see the Kings Portrait in the Obverse ? 

[sixgun]

i couldn't see the King's face - i needed some help. What a find.

 

[Midasfrog]

Thanks sixgun when I first found it and didn't know what it was I could tell it was something special it took me a while to see the kings portrait . 

Crowned King Stephen right facing bust holding a Scepter 

[Midasfrog]

A few more finds from the same fields that have been cultivated over hundreds of years ..