Posted on 10/02/2008 7:12:32 AM PDT by BGHater
Thursday, 2pm - AN Iron Age coin depicting a warrior leader bearing an uncanny likeness to Grantham-born former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has been found just a few miles from her birth place. Metal detectorist David Baker was searching a muddy field near Grantham when he uncovered the 2,000-year-old silver coin.
On one side was the head of a tribal leader or goddess that looked just like Margaret Thatcher.
On its reverse was a celtic armed war horse - imagery associated with Lady Thatcher during her 1980s pomp.
David, 40, said: "I'd gone out detecting for the day to get away from all the gloomy news about the economy.
"I dug down with my trowel when my detector went off and got quite excited when I saw the coin.
"But I couldn't believe it when I cleaned it up a bit and saw this image of Margaret Thatcher glaring up at at me.
"The head on the coin was the spitting image of her. It is so ironic that she was born close by to where I found it and that it is also from the Iron Age and she was the Iron Lady."
David took the coin to an expert who verified its age and told him it was from the Trinovantian tribe, which lived just north of the Thames.
Only ten of the coins, from about 40BC, have ever been found. It was discovered just a few inches down in a ploughed field where it had lain undiscovered for well over 2,000 years.
Metal detectorist David Baker
Either way, nice find.
I'll find a place to rest my spirit if I can
Perhaps I may become a highwayman again
Or I may simply be a single drop of rain
But I will remain
And I'll be back again, and again and again and again and
again..
looks more like the guy who found it... IMHO
reincarnation bump.... just kidding
I second that
Maggie Thatcher finally had her face put on a coin, albeit retroactively...
My gawd! The resemblence is uncanny! < /sarc>
I'd say this is more evidence of one of Picasso's ancestors.
Oh, come now, surely it means Maggie was one of Dr. Who’s companions, brought forward in time from the Iron Age to save Britain during the Cold War. You know, the way Rose Tyler will save humanity from the Daleks a few hundred thousand years from now. :-)
Bill Clinton Coin
Cave drawings and African masks were part of Picasso’s inspiration for his abstract expressionist style.
silly brits. that’s not Thatcher. That’s Jay Leno!
So the British government gets to steal the coin from the finder, right?
Yeah, only if it’s ‘Treasure’. They don’t steal worthless stuff.
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An Omen perhaps?
It must be a slow news day
If I were two faced I wouldn’t be wearing this one.
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