Warning: I labeled a 2,000 year old Roman coin as a button for 3 weeks

So I got this small bronze disc in a junk lot from an estate sale in Bath, England, and I tossed it in my button tin because it had a little loop on the back. Three weeks later I posted a pic on a metal detecting forum and a guy named Phil asked why I was putting a hole through a 1st century Roman fibula brooch. Turns out that "loop" was the catch plate, and I had been using a 1,900 year old artifact to hold my work shirts closed. How many of you have almost ruined something old because you had no clue what you were looking at?

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the_mia12d ago

Wait you were literally stabbing a hole through a 1900 year old brooch to hold your work shirts?? That catch plate part is sending me, like the Romans had no idea their fancy jewelry would end up as a shirt clip in someone's laundry rotation. Phil is a real one for catching that before you did actual damage.

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