A fellow UK forum member let me borrow his new CTX 3030 yesterday to search a local field which I know contains material from the Roman period.
Not having used one before I elected, or should that be, not happy to move any of the presets in the coin program so used as is.
I certainly struggled to make any sense of the sounds emitting from the machine but gained confidence once the small items of the non iron variety started to appear.
The VDU (visual display unit) was totally unreadable in the bright sunshine.
My thanks to a UK forum member for the two ID's on the Roman coins.
Thanks for looking...........Doug.
The field + the unknown.
Roman coin just out of the ground.
All Roman coins.
Constantine 2 AD316-340
"Constantine and his sons issued a few different types of commemoratives from 330-346. These were issued to mark the foundation of Constantinople and to also re-affirm Rome as the traditional center of the Empire.
Thirteen mints produced these types: Trier, Lugdunum (Lyons), Arelate (Arles), Aquileia, Rome, Siscia, Thessalonica, Heraclea, Constantinople, Nicomedia, Cyzicus, Antioch and Alexandria.
The two most common are the CONSTANTINOPOLIS (Victory on a prow) and VRBS ROMA (wolf and twins) types. The female figure on the obverse is the personification of Constantinople or Rome. The wolf and twins type depict Romulus and Remus (the founders of Rome) being suckled by the she-wolf. The two stars on the reverse represent the dioscuri ( the twins Castor and Pollux)."
Not having used one before I elected, or should that be, not happy to move any of the presets in the coin program so used as is.
I certainly struggled to make any sense of the sounds emitting from the machine but gained confidence once the small items of the non iron variety started to appear.
The VDU (visual display unit) was totally unreadable in the bright sunshine.
My thanks to a UK forum member for the two ID's on the Roman coins.
Thanks for looking...........Doug.
The field + the unknown.
Roman coin just out of the ground.
All Roman coins.
Constantine 2 AD316-340
"Constantine and his sons issued a few different types of commemoratives from 330-346. These were issued to mark the foundation of Constantinople and to also re-affirm Rome as the traditional center of the Empire.
Thirteen mints produced these types: Trier, Lugdunum (Lyons), Arelate (Arles), Aquileia, Rome, Siscia, Thessalonica, Heraclea, Constantinople, Nicomedia, Cyzicus, Antioch and Alexandria.
The two most common are the CONSTANTINOPOLIS (Victory on a prow) and VRBS ROMA (wolf and twins) types. The female figure on the obverse is the personification of Constantinople or Rome. The wolf and twins type depict Romulus and Remus (the founders of Rome) being suckled by the she-wolf. The two stars on the reverse represent the dioscuri ( the twins Castor and Pollux)."
Congrats, awesome job.
