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  Latest Metal Detecting Find

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  now the harvest is underway up north i can get out for a walk with the metal detector in the evening.

  i am lucky to live on a historic rural estate and i have permission from the landowner to detect.. this is a coin that popped up last night.

  it was only about 2 inches deep and had been tumbling around in the plough soil for the last 750 years.. it is a silver penny of king henry iii.

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  Ha! Yes you can walk onto St Cuthbert's Island at very low tide.
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  Latest Metal Detecting Find

  by cofty in

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  2. physical

  now the harvest is underway up north i can get out for a walk with the metal detector in the evening.

  i am lucky to live on a historic rural estate and i have permission from the landowner to detect.. this is a coin that popped up last night.

  it was only about 2 inches deep and had been tumbling around in the plough soil for the last 750 years.. it is a silver penny of king henry iii.

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  I have a huge, worn, copper British penny from 1799 which I use as a paper weight. - Bonsai

  Yes they were George III "Cartwheel" pennies. I have 4 or 5 of those, they tend to come out the ground very worn. There was also a twopence the biggest, heaviest coin ever made in England. I think the value of coin was still linked to the intrinsic value of the copper. - They give a signal on the headphones that don't have blast your eardrums!

  Do you ever find anything Viking? - SBF

  Sadly no. But I hope it will happen. I have a couple of Roman finds though.

  Lindisfarne is very near my house. It is a wonderful place to visit. Just get the tides right or your car will end up floating off to the Tyne.

  
  
  
  
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  Latest Metal Detecting Find

  by cofty in

  1. social
  2. physical

  now the harvest is underway up north i can get out for a walk with the metal detector in the evening.

  i am lucky to live on a historic rural estate and i have permission from the landowner to detect.. this is a coin that popped up last night.

  it was only about 2 inches deep and had been tumbling around in the plough soil for the last 750 years.. it is a silver penny of king henry iii.

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  Good thing the laws in Britain allow you to keep it

  Yes in England the rules are very fair. It really belongs to the landowner but if anything valuable is found the value is split 50:50 with the finder. If two or more silver or gold coins are found together then they must be declared as treasure and handed in to the coroner. Eventually you will get a payment that a panel decides it is worth, which is always surprisingly low!

  Any other object containing any gold or silver more than 300 years old must be handed in as well. In Scotland all coins have to be given up.

  I have about 20+ silver coins now ranging from William The Lion 1180 to present day.
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  Latest Metal Detecting Find

  by cofty in

  1. social
  2. physical

  now the harvest is underway up north i can get out for a walk with the metal detector in the evening.

  i am lucky to live on a historic rural estate and i have permission from the landowner to detect.. this is a coin that popped up last night.

  it was only about 2 inches deep and had been tumbling around in the plough soil for the last 750 years.. it is a silver penny of king henry iii.

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  Now the harvest is underway up north I can get out for a walk with the metal detector in the evening. I am lucky to live on a historic rural estate and I have permission from the landowner to detect.

  This is a coin that popped up last night. It was only about 2 inches deep and had been tumbling around in the plough soil for the last 750 years.

  It is a silver penny of King Henry III. He was son of King John (Magna Carta) and father of Edward I. He had a difficult and contentious reign with constant power struggles. He became king aged just nine.

  The obverse shows the king wearing a crown and holding a sceptre in his chubby right hand. The inscription reads HENRICUS REX III.

  The reverse is a voided long cross with three pellets in each quadrant. The legend reads DAVI ON LVNDEN meaning the coin was minted by David of London. It dates from around 1256. The coin is about 18mm in diameter. Pennies were the only denomination available in that period. If you wanted to spend half a penny you literally cut it in half (or quarter) along the cross. Most ordinary people would never use coinage at all.

  Although most of what I find has little value it is a real buzz to hold something that nobody has seen for more than 7 centuries.

  
  
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  Debating With Evolution Deniers is Just Like This

  by cofty in

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  arguing with those who reject scientific evidence can be like arguing about football; just as angry and passionate, but the goalposts keep moving, and one team doesn't exist.. read more here....

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  CJ - I have utter contempt for holocaust deniers. Either they are genuinely deluded, in which case they will dismiss all evidence because they think they are smarter than all the "sheeple". They are blind to their stunning level of ignorance.

  Or they are actual racist, anti-semitic hate-mongers, in which case they are beyond help.

  In either case I prefer that you just fuck off.
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  Holocaust Denier

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  at the beginning of the week i watched a documentary on the libel.

  suit brought against penguin books and deborah lipstadt but lost by.

  holocaust denier david irving?

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  CJ - Fuck off
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  Debating With Evolution Deniers is Just Like This

  by cofty in

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  arguing with those who reject scientific evidence can be like arguing about football; just as angry and passionate, but the goalposts keep moving, and one team doesn't exist.. read more here....

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  The words we use to describe something... describe more who we are than the thing we are trying to describe

  So when you claim that Irvine is a genuine historian and not a convicted holocaust denier, racist and anti-semite what does that tell us about you?
  
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  Holocaust Denier

  by Kenneson in

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  at the beginning of the week i watched a documentary on the libel.

  suit brought against penguin books and deborah lipstadt but lost by.

  holocaust denier david irving?

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  David Irving is not a holocaust denier

  Yes he is. Why are you lying about that?

  He did 3 years in prison in Austria for it.

  In 2000, he lost a £2m libel action against the US historian Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books. The judge ruled that Irving “is an active Holocaust denier; that he is anti-Semitic and racist”....
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  Debating With Evolution Deniers is Just Like This

  by cofty in

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  2. beliefs

  arguing with those who reject scientific evidence can be like arguing about football; just as angry and passionate, but the goalposts keep moving, and one team doesn't exist.. read more here....

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  in another thread you attack a poster for his comments and not the comments.

  Is that English?

  What we say... says more of who we are than that of what we say of.

  How about that? Is that in English? Serious question - are you sober?
  

  I called you an idiot for being an apologist for holocaust deniers like David Irving.
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  Debating With Evolution Deniers is Just Like This

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  arguing with those who reject scientific evidence can be like arguing about football; just as angry and passionate, but the goalposts keep moving, and one team doesn't exist.. read more here....

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  Are you really comparing the intellectually dishonest tactics of evolution deniers with rational, well-informed people who dismiss the deluded ravings of holocaust deniers?

  That is some seriously messed-up thinking.