georgeandlinda

Hello everyone! My mum asked me this morning if I could do a little research for her regarding an old coin she found in the drawer. We don't know how old it is or even if it's British or not but any advice or information anyone may be able to provide will really help us to continue our research! My mum is a member of the local WI group and has to take an old coin in this evening - she'd really like to be able to tell her friends there what it is! I've taken some pictures of the coin. My mum says she was given it by a man called Arthur Dix and he said it was an irregular shape because it is made from silver and poor people had tried to cut slices from around the edges to sell. This makes us wonder if the coin, at the time, was worth a fair amount of money... if it was a low value coin, surely they wouldn't have made it from a metal worth more than the coin? My mum also thinks she saw a similar coin at the local Roman villa. We have had a look with a magnifying glass and think the letters round the edges of the side with the cross read as follows - ABR ISTO LLIG (the other quarter is too worn to read!). Any information would be gratefully recieved! Thanks! George and my mum, Linda.

hello im linda thank you one and all nice to know i have something 0lder than my husband !!!!!¬¬!¬!!!!!! (it just took my mum a good 15 minutes to type that! hahahahah! - george)

Thanks for the replies everyone! Sorry it took me so long to get back and check your answers - our BT wirelss box thingy doesn't seem to connect to anything when the weather gets bad! LOL! It's really interesting reading about the coin, I've done a bit of research on google and my mum now knows a lot more about it. Sadly, the internet connection didn't come back until after her WI meeting was over so she couldn't tell her friends much about it, except for a rough guess of the year, which we were surprisingly close to! She's going to take it back in next time with some information though. The most interesting coin got a prize... would you believe they overlooked this coin and gave it to some woman that took in an american dollar?? Pfffffttttt! Thanks again.

Just realised I posted two pictures of the same side! Oops!