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Many thanks for your reply. Are you able to tell me what each of these awards are and what they are for?

Ladies & Gents, Can anybody tell me anything about these medals? What are they and what are they for? I also believe that they are numbered? Is there anyway of conducting further research by why of these numbers?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/roman-gold-coin-rare-emperor-allectus-brexit-auction-sale-a8950816.html

Another cracking read Alan, well researched!! Yet again I’m green with envy 😂😂!!!!!

Cracking display Dave, would love to do the same with my collection! But like Mike, mine is more like a hoarders nightmare 😂😂😂.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48392141

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-48314102

This lot sold recently on EBay. 8th, 9th & 11th century Umayyad & Abbasid silver coins, found in a Viking hoard from Scandinavia.

THE PRESTBURY CIVIL WAR HOARD, 2004 The Prestbury Civil War Hoard, 2004 This hoard was found on 15 June 2004 by Jason Scott in the course of his digging footings for a barn conversion at Prestbury, Cheshire. Totalling 1,366 coins, its content is typical of so many Civil War deposits, being mainly comprised of silver halfcrowns, shillings and sixpences from the coinages of Edward VI to Charles I. Also included are groats of Mary, Philip and Mary and Elizabeth I, again not unusual, together with some threepences of Elizabeth I. These denominations were in daily use whereas higher denominations were not and minor denominations were deemed unsuitable for hoarding. However, the hoard contains one gold coin, a laurel of James I, and some Scottish and Irish coins, mostly of James VI/I. The Tudor pieces are generally much worn from their years in circulation; most of the Scottish and Irish coins are bent, some coins have been clipped and others corroded from contact with soil. Their face value amounts to almost £43, a significant sum at the time. Large hoards from these turbulent times usually reveal items of interest and rarity and this hoard does not disappoint in that respect. Worthy of mention are a shilling of James I, mm. mullet over key on obverse, which omits the intervening bell mark (lot 57); an extremely rare sixpence of 1615 (lot 62); a previously unrecorded sixpence of 1616 (lot 63); two very rare Tower shiIIings of Charles I, mm. harp, with plume above the shield on the reverse (lots 109 and 11 0); a shilling from an obverse of Briot's hammered coinage muled with an ordinary Tower reverse (lot 148) and the only coin from a provincial mint, a sixpence struck at Aberystwyth (lot 149). There are also some contemporary forgeries (lot 150). The land on which the find was made is known to have been owned by Thomas Legh, the Royalist High Sheriff of Cheshire, a prominent landowner who resided at Adlington Hall, Macclesfield. It was likely leased to a tenant farmer. The most recent coins bear the mintmark triangle-in-circle, in use 1641-3, suggesting this a very early deposit. On 15 July 1642, a month and a week before the King raised his Standard at Nottingham, the Royalist Lord Strange entered Manchester, predominantly of Parliamentarian persuasion, with a small body of his men and a fracas ensued, a precursor to the troubled times in store. In September Strange, by then Earl of Derby following the recent death of his father, laid siege to Manchester. This was something of an anti-climax from a Royalist standpoint and the reluctance of the Cheshire levies to serve outside of their own county doubtless had its effect. It might be reasonable to suggest this hoard was deposited at that time. The hoard was contained in a cylindrical jar, found in six fragments, thought contemporary and of local manufacture in the Northwest Purple tradition. It was declared Treasure at an inquest held on 19 October 2004 and released to the finder, who has retained a few of the coins as mementos, earlier this year.

Lost coins of early America................

Silver coins were particularly effective against witches: the tradition of dropping silver coins into cream so witches could not keep it from churning lingered in Scotland into the 1880s. Some lore insisted that a silver sixpence, used as a bullet, was the only effective weapon against witches who took the form of hares. The folding of the sixpence may be a holdover from pagan practices: “The fold lines indicate that it was retained while bent for a lengthy period of time. By the time this coin was minted, bent coins had a centuries long history of use in sacred ritual. The bending process is believed to represent the creolization of Christian worship and pagan practices that include the ‘killing’ of an object to be devoted to a deity. As early as 1307, it was considered ‘the English custom’ to bend a coin as part of a vow to a particular saint.” Coins bent to invoke a saint were generally considered as a vow to make pilgrimage to a particular saint’s shrine. Bent coins could also be used in case of stormy weather or other disasters. Back in the `Witch trial days` in Salem, Mass, it was believed that if you carried a bent silver coin in your pocket this would ward-off witches. Its why there were, it is believed, so many Massachusettes colonial coins were bent.

Thanks Paul that's really interesting. Does the coin your Dad found still exist, would very much like to see a picture if it does. Going back to the bent coin thing found this..... In 1984, an archaeological collection at St. Inigoes, a long-standing Jesuit site in Maryland, uncovered an unusual coin: a 1596 Elizabeth I sixpence that had clearly been folded and straightened out again. Since silver coins have often been used in witchcraft and other rituals, the folding of the coin is a good indicator that it had been used as some kind of charm.

Whatever it is, someone has certainly put a lot of effort in to crafting it?

Thanks for your replies chaps, all very curious. I have since found this..... Coins with Holes It is told that coins with holes are especially auspicious. An old superstition from England tells us that if you always carry a coin with a hole in your purse or pocket, you will never be without money. During a new moon you must take your coin with the hole out of your pocket or purse. Hold the coin in your hand and spit on it for good luck. Return the coin to your pocket. Also found that there was the custom in ye old days in England of putting a coin in the brick work above a door for good luck, along the sames lines as a horse shoe I suppose? Also the custom of putting shoes in walls for the same purpose? Curious to know what the thinking behind bending a "witch coin" was all about? Do tell Paul.....

Thought this might be of interest? I believe it was a custom in the New World, for Colonists to hammer a coin over their front door entrance to ward off witches and evil spirits. This example I'm led to believe was dug up from a Colonial homestead in Massachusetts. Would be interested to know if anyone has ever heard of this custom or come across such an example before?