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Norfolk Anglo-Saxon coin hoard could be worth £400,000

From bbc.co.uk

The largest "internationally significant" hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold coins found in Britain is due to be valued and could command a sum of up to £400,000, an expert said. Some 131 coins were declared treasure last month, and Norwich's Castle Museum, which has been keeping 16 of them, is hoping to buy them all. The hoard was found in a field in west Norfolk, most of them by the same metal detectorist. "We've not seen anything like this in Britain, ever," said Adrian Marsden, a numismatist from Norfolk County Council's Historic Environment Service, who described them as "internationally significant". The first ... (full story)

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