Over the centuries Britain`s soil has yielded countless spectacular hoards of ancient coins & other artefacts, affording us priceless insights into our ancestors` lives
- & it is not only such large finds that await discovery but also many thousands of individual pieces. Wonderfully, discoveries both minor & momentous are frequently made not by teams of professionals but by amateur archaeologists & metal-detector enthusiasts, for whom this book is intended as a helpful companion. It provides a catalogue of commonly encountered coins, dating from ancient times until the modern day, explaining their historical context, how they might have come to be lost & where they may be found today.