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England' Earliest Gold Coin Found by Detectorist.
Source: See CNN link below. |
An amateur metal detectorist who discovered what is thought to be one of England's first gold coins could soon see a payday of nearly half a million dollars.
The "Henry III gold penny," which was unearthed on farmland in Devon, in the country's southwest, was minted in about 1257 and depicts the former English king sitting on an ornate throne, holding an orb and scepter. It is one of only eight such coins known to exist, many of which are in museums.
The finder, who wishes to remain anonymous, didn't realize how valuable the coin was until he posted a photograph of the penny... Gregory Edmund, a numismatist with auctioneer Spink & Son, spotted it. "This was one of his first prospecting days in many, many years, so he obviously couldn't quite believe what he discovered," Edmund told CNN, referring to the detectorist...
King Henry III ruled England from 1216 until his death in 1272 -- one of the longest reigns in the country's history. In 1257, he used treasure he had personally accumulated to mint his gold coinage, according to David Carpenter, professor of medieval history at King's College London, who wrote the foreword to Spink & Son's auction catalog. Henry's coinage was the first to be cast in gold since the Norman Conquest, with the economy relying on silver coins since then. Edmund said that the new gold coinage could have been made from Byzantine coins and Islamic gold dinars, revealing trade routes between Europe and the Middle East at the time.
"If you drew a line across the planet at that point, you would see continental Europe and England would be very much in the silver zone, and all their coinage was silver. And then in the east, in the Middle East, so the spice-rich Middle East, it would be gold," Edmund said....
Here is the link.
Henry III gold penny: A coin found in a field by an amateur metal detectorist could fetch up to $547,000 at auction - CNN Style
Thanks to Rick B. and Alberto S. for that link.
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| Source: See DailyMail link below. |
A metal detectorist from Cornwall is 'still getting shivers' after discovering ancient gold in his front garden.
Mike Burke, 54, from St Just, had only been metal detecting for a year since his wife Julie bought him a Garrett Ace Apex for Christmas after they watched the television series 'The Detectorists'.
He dug up his greatest treasure to date just before New Year, when he found what it believed to be a Roman intaglio ring, dating from around the 1st or 2nd century AD...
Here is that link.
Maths teacher unearths 2000-year-old Roman ring in his garden after wife gave him a metal detector | Daily Mail Online
Thanks to Rick B. for that link.
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