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Here's a short 3 minute clip of one of my last hunts deep in the Roman Empire's bread basket. Enjoy! CjUrwlhqVWI In the video, I find a fairly rare coin minted under Constantius I - the father of Constantine the Great. The coin dates between 305 and 306 AD. Constantius was only Emperor for...

I was cleaning off the ancient clay and dirt off a coin I found, and from what I had already been able to see, the coin appeared to be from Roman emperor Constantine the Great - with two winged victories on the back holding a wreath that stated a vow to the Roman people. But as I started to...

To help locate ancient settlements in Europe, I have found a technique I have used over the last three years that has worked very well for me. I now share this with you all. The first part is understand where ancient people lived. They did not live in cities and towns. Very few even lived...

Here are two coins that gave me more fun cleaning and identifying than the actual digging! The two coins were found in fields many miles apart – but are related in a different way. The first one found took me about three days to clean up, and it came out quite well. The obverse was in great...

Here's a short video to show how I clean my ancient coins. YWPu_IsoL6o Here's the coin after a few hours: and the final coin:

Went out to a remote cornfield with my new 6x8" SEF coil on my V3i, and found it performed beautifuly with my new Roman Coin program. Tucked away between the many iron trash artifacts, I came across this lovely coin: Antoninus Pius. (138-161 AD). Silver denarius. Minted in Rome between...

My wife wanted to take the Rubicon off road, and get her dirty. So we headed out across some farmland and onto a forest logging road that I had never been on before. After 10 minutes we came across an old ruined barn and home - probably abandoned in the 1970's by the look of it - and certainly a...

Of the following, which one would be best V3i coil for thin and tiny medieval silver hammered coins in Europe? These are about 2 to 3 cm wide, and very thin. Often they are in ancient fields that have a lot of small iron trash too. I have found that only the high frequencies detect them well...

I found this beauty in a potato field directly under some powerlines with the V3i. It's a lovely silver Roman Denarius dating to the late 2nd century. Roman Emperor Caracalla. Denarius, minted in 200 AD in Rome. Obverse: ANTONINVS AVGVSTVS, laureate draped and cuirassed bust right Reverse...