Hello, Thanks for looking in, you are very welcome. The coins and artefacts illustrated here were rescued from pasture and ploughland in the county of Yorkshire, with the aid of a metal detector. The word 'rescued' may sound dramatic, but it is a fact that chemicals, which have played such an important role in modern agriculture, accelerate the deterioration of buried metals. The probability of items being plough damaged must also be taken into consideration.  It is likely therefore that these objects would be in much poorer condition had they still been in the ground today.

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