A Roman Coin.
I have bombarded you with shots of flowers and trees as I familiarise myself with my new camera. A little respite today. When I was a little girl I was staying with my Nain and Taid in North Wales. One thing I loved to do was feed the hens and chickens.
One day while doing so with my aunt. she picked up what she thought was a threepenny bit. It wasn't so she threw it away. As she did so it hit the metal feeding dish and made a metalic sound. We took it inside and washed it and could see immediately that it was a coin. We went back out and scratched around in the dirt and found quite a few more.
Over the next year or so various friends who were interested used to go and have a look and many were successful. I suppose all in all about 100 coins were found.
Some were in better condition than others. This is one of the few with a female head on that I have. They were sent to Aberystwyth (I think) and were identified and dated by them. I have included the small identity slip with her name and dates on. The coin measures 2 cms across.These are some more shots without the label and showing the reverse side of the coin. Plus two different coins with identification.These
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- Panasonic DMC-TZ3
- 1/33
- f/3.3
- 5mm
- 200
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