A trip down memory lane for Oliver

[east coast stu]

Last week Myself and Oliver, were chating about finding Garnets eyes only on the Thames foreshore. back in the 70's and 80's. Seems like they are still finding them . As i fell over this pic on a facebook page today.

[oliver]

Yep that's the boys used to find them near Tower bridge in the the old pool of London i was told that they came here in the past as mixed in with sand used as ballast in the old sailing ships and got dumped in the river.

[oliver]

There is a bit here about the garnets from the river
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[east coast stu]

I remember looking for them with Paul Woods & Ian Smith back in the early 80's when we were waiting to get under Billingsgate. Had some great finds eyes only in that area, \including a couple unrecorded 17c trade tokens We had some big holes in one area there that produced nothing but Lead cloth seals

[oliver]

My best eyes only find was a lovely complete polish axe i found the same day i found a Gallo-Belgic E Ambiani Gold stater got a pic of the stater but it is very old print i sold the coin on.

[oliver]

Here is Stater like the one from the river.

[east coast stu]

I dug a lot of Ambiani staters about 18 years ago, also dug the rarer VE monogram version as well. great coins

[oliver]

Dug a few of these in my time on the river.

[east coast stu]

I've never had much luck with Potins, I dug a couple of the small half size in the early 80's from a Essex field, They were far rarer back then. Did yours come from the same spot as Franks, further up river

[oliver]

Yes we had a load from there over 600 coins.