Featured Medieval silver coins

Amongst the odds and ends that I have accumulated over the years are these three English medieval silver coins. From the reign of King Edward III, 1327-1377. I believe them to be silver half pennies. It is interesting to hold them and wonder what somebody bought all those years back and didn't have change, hence them being cut into halves and quarters.
They were found from spoil when the Jubilee line extension was added to the London underground, so unfortunately I have no idea from where they were actually dug up.
The little quarter piece is still sharp from where it was cut some 650 years ago!
The complete coin is 15mm Ø ( 5/8").



Holding these I can well understand peoples fascination with collecting coins!

 

Isn't it just!

As I have mentioned before on the forum, I knew a man who had a whole museum of items found on the foreshore of the River Thames in Rotherhithe. Items from pre roman days up to WWII, and some exceedingly rare, saxon glass for example. He used an old garden hoe, as a metal detector is useless in the Thames......it might be an ancient coin............. or a hub cap, dagger, cannon ball.................or a WWII German bomb! So no metal detectors.

Ron Goodes Museum of the Foreshore was a remarkable and absolutely fascinating collection of finds. I wonder what happened to it................?

 

Joining a Mudlark adventure has been on my bucket list for a long time. When I found 52 large cents buried at the corner of our house I was so thrilled. 1814-1851. We just don't get the kind of stuff Time Team finds. I'm probably too old and arthritic now to go mudlarking. I might be able to bend down, but it would take a crane to get me back up again!

 

I had a workshop on the banks of the River Thames, hence my knowing Ron Goode and his museum. I often used to have a walk along the foreshore there, and it was fascinating to see the odds and ends that were laying there at low tide. Coins, pipes, buckles....supermarket trolleys......and unfortunately on one sad occassion a corpse!
Up around the Tower of London area , quite a few Viking swords, spears and axes have been found in the Thames. It really is a treasure trove!

 

More about Thames mudlarking- https://www.thamesandfield.com/

 

Ain't that the truth! It seems the Romans buried everything on their way out.

 

Or just dumped it and it buried itself. Around here all you would find muldarking are rocks, bottle caps (maybe) and nails. There were plenty of Native Americans living here, but they didn't leave much behind.