https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/11/24/my-coin-collection-ii/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Mon, 24 Nov 2025 21:48:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/11/24/my-coin-collection-ii/#comment-1860769 Mon, 24 Nov 2025 21:48:58 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=205314#comment-1860769 I love your coins.
As a ten year old I found a Roman coin in the dirt dug up in the meadow in front of my home. We were getting mains drainage. I went on the bus to my local museum and I still have the report. It has Septimus Severus on it. They asked me to look for pottery and when I did find some off I went to the museum again. Yes they were Roman and some showed signs of having been used as cooking pots. I still live close to the field and I often think about Romans living there. My ten year old self was thrilled to think a Roman had touched it before me.
It has meant a life of looking down but I have never been so lucky again.
Yours are wonderful treasures.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/11/24/my-coin-collection-ii/#comment-1860353 Mon, 24 Nov 2025 11:22:39 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=205314#comment-1860353 1896 was my father’s birth-year, in Stepney, a Jewish cockney.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/11/24/my-coin-collection-ii/#comment-1860269 Mon, 24 Nov 2025 09:09:58 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=205314#comment-1860269 That’s a lovely collection too think of who’s hands they may have passed through and on what they where spent on

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/11/24/my-coin-collection-ii/#comment-1860200 Mon, 24 Nov 2025 07:49:13 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=205314#comment-1860200 It’s fascinating how your collection tells stories of the past through these coins with personal histories. The incident in Princelet St must have been quite a moment of realization for you. Have you considered delving deeper into the historical contexts of each coin?

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