My Father-in-law unearthed a roman coin in his garden in Glasgow. How it got there I have no idea but when my Mother-in-law died a few years ago we took it to the museum to find out more about it. What a shock we had! It turns out that there are thousands of these coins turning up in Britain all the time and as a result worth very little at all.
Some times it is nice though to own something as old as the coin and not feel as thought it has to be treated with kid gloves or locked away. To hold it in your hand and try to picture the person who last held it before losing it. Was it a Roman soldier or a Celt dressed in little more than woad and a battle cry?
Jax