English Coins

Here you will find some excellent metal detector finds made over the years.

Early medieval English coinage.

A thorough history of coinage in Great Britain from earliest times to the late 20th century.

A project to gather together into a single database all of the single finds of coins minted 410-1180 found in the British Isles. There are several thousand such coins, mostly Anglo-Saxon and Norman, but with a smattering of Frankish, Byzantine, even Arabic, and hundreds more are found every year.

This site has been designed for anyone interested in the various artefacts and coins uncovered through metal detecting and fieldwalking. It is hoped that landowners, detectorists and anyone seeking parallels for finds may find the site both interesting and useful. The galleries contain a selection of personal metal detecting and fieldwalking finds from the United Kingdom which have been photographed and recorded.

The database is now a living resource, constantly updated by our staff with several hundred new objects each day. The objects recorded by the Scheme, are known as "porta ble antiquitie s" and are found by members of the public. These objects range from the Palaeolith ic to around the 18th Century, and include items recorded in the Annual Treasure Report published by the UK's Department of Culture, Media and Sport.

The Portable Antiquitie s Scheme is a voluntary scheme to record archaeolog ical objects found by members of the public in England and Wales.

Working out how much something was worth in an economy based largely on barter (even if a common coinage was available) is not easy, even in contemporary relative terms, let alone with a modern equivalent.

An initiative by members of the metal-detecting community to promote good practice within the hobby. It is an easy-to-use, friendly and supportive online facility for detectorists to record their finds and ensure that the information is preserved for future generations.