I suppose some licences granted in 2023 could have been for finds made in the previous year, but... yes, the maths seems to be correct, and that's an extraordinarily high number. And of course it's only the reported finds... 😞

I'm sure i can see the same hand at work across different coin dies - but perhaps easier to spot there than on your metalwork?

Thanks for reminding me of this - I came to it through The Men they couldn't Hang on John Peel so that's the version I sang to my poor unsuspecting children to get them to sleep 🤭

Yes, it is the same type. However the coins are almost unknown from the area occupied by the Veneti - they are from further NE, probably territory of the Redones. The Veneti attribution goes back to work in the 1940s/50s which has largely been superseded. Auction houses take a while to catch up...

Chaotic good, tending to lawful evil if I don't have something to hand for chaotic good...

There's at least one published example I can think of where an IA coin seems to have inspired an Anglo-Saxon sceatta, see www.britnumsoc.org/images/PDFs/...

I don't think you should, I've only known about them for a year since our French visitors first managed to sneak them in

The rasette, the blade on a stick on the left of the photo. It's just wrong! 😄