Coin

Today's the day ……………………….. to be in the money

Back at the Tongland Abbey dig today - to find that last week (when I was in Ireland) there had been great excitement when a coin had been discovered.

I'm afraid my picture of it is not very good, but if you squint at it a bit, you might just be able to make out a head - and the letters 'C' 'O' 'B'?  It will need to go to an expert for formal identification, but the informed thought of our leader is that it bears the head of one of the King James' (hence the JaCOB) of Scotland.  There were five of them in quick succession before the sixth one became James I of England.  So the coin dates to the late 15th/ early 16th century.

It's quite small - about half an inch across - and made of silver.  It has a nick in it which would have been made deliberately to test that it was genuine - a bit like clipping a ticket.  I've put the other side in extras - and a picture of the sort of coin that it might be like.

We were all looking very carefully today in the hope that we might find another one ………………………….!