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Offline cicerokid

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Detectorists find huge Norman coin hoard
« on: August 28, 2019, 06:04:30 am »
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-49487078

from the BBC News front page.

Over a thousand each of Harold ll and William l and mules between both.

The local museum wants them but I expect the coins will be worth $1000 a specimen with such a provenance.
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Re: Detectorists find huge Norman coin hoard
« Reply #1 on: August 28, 2019, 06:32:42 am »
One of the pictures seems to show a Harold l coin...I think!
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Re: Detectorists find huge Norman coin hoard
« Reply #2 on: August 28, 2019, 08:43:34 am »
This is astonishing. :o "the second largest find of Norman coins ever in the UK." and "the 'very well-preserved' hoard is 'hugely significant' as it contains double the number of Harold coins than all previous known finds combined."  Potentially market-moving.   Harold II has to be among the rarest of late Saxon coinage.  

Well spotted cicerokid, and thanks for sharing.  +++
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Re: Detectorists find huge Norman coin hoard
« Reply #3 on: August 28, 2019, 11:40:30 am »
I saw no reference to the coins being found in any type of pottery container, nor does it look like there were any shards of pottery in the video.  I assume they had been in some type of purse or cloth sack which had rotted away over the centuries.
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