09-02-2013, 09:53 AM
Found it! Pfff, took a bit of effort, Patrick likes a good puzzle. The B159 chape in this picture is not connected to or with the scabbardplate B300,7 found at Valkenburg above it and was a loose find. It is not a coin, but the chape is fashioned from two disks, with mentions of Trajan and Hadrian. As far as I can see in Miks, this is the only one of this kind in existence. As it was dredged up, there is no dating, nor does Miks hazard a guess at what type of sword it once belonged to. The date given is a TPQ of 117/118 AD. The scabbardplate above it is dated 39 -41 AD
