England Expedition 2024

Pictured above is Phil from Virginia searching for the end of the rainbow!

Recently, I led five of our club members on a 10-day metal detecting expedition in England. Many coins and artifacts were recovered but there were three pieces that stood out above the rest. The extremely rare ancient Celtic gold coins pictured below were found during our outing by three of the participants. All discoveries are being recorded with the British Museum. It was a great outing with a great group of folks!

From left to right they were identified as follows:

• Heybridge Horse type Celtic gold quarter stater - Trinovantes tribe, 50-BC, wreath between two pellet lines, stylized locks of hair above, crescents and pellet ring motifs below horse, large rump, various pellets around, pellet boss below ABC 2359 - Extremely rare (1.25g, 12.88mm)

  
  

• Addedomarus - Trinovantes tribe gold stater, 5 BC to 25BC (5.44g,16.96mm)

  
  

• Raunds Wing type gold stater ABC 2466, Catuvellauni tribe, 45- 40 BC, Wreath across corded line- Annulate horse r, sunburst above - pellet in ring below - Extremely rare (1.152g, 11.32mm)