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Title: Hidden jar contained 47 gold sovereigns . . . Post by: Neil on June 06, 2009, 05:49:55 PM Courtesy of the Yorkshire Post - Published Date: 27 March 2009
A HAUL of gold sovereigns found by two schoolgirls stashed beneath a hedge is to go under the hammer 35 years after it was uncovered. The six-year-olds discovered the hoard while looking for something in which to put wild flowers in the summer of 1974. For three decades the 42 sovereigns and five half sovereigns have lain safely in a bank vault after an inquest declared the find treasure trove and ordered it to be returned to the girls who found it. But now it is to go under the hammer at Tennants Spring Coin sale in Leyburn and the money raised split between the childhood pals, Marie Palliser and Vanessa Spiteri. Mrs Palliser - née Wilkinson - said: "We were picking wild flowers to take home to our mothers and we began looking for something to put them in. "At the bottom of a hedge we found a jar which we thought had pennies in it. We tipped the coins into Vanessa's purse, planning to share them out when we got home. But they were quite irrelevant really. We were more interested in the jar." It is though the haul could have been stashed for safekeeping by a a soldier who was called up to serve in World War I and did not return. Title: Re: Hidden jar contained 47 gold sovereigns . . . Post by: James on June 06, 2009, 05:59:59 PM WOW!!!! wouldnt finding one of those! :)
Title: Re: Hidden jar contained 47 gold sovereigns . . . Post by: Beefy (GARETH) on June 06, 2009, 06:39:24 PM WOW VERY NICE FINED I WOULD LIKE TO FINED ONE OF THEM................................ :) :) :) :) :) :)
Title: Re: Hidden jar contained 47 gold sovereigns . . . Post by: KANE (DES) on June 06, 2009, 06:50:50 PM wow some find that they must be very happy girls
Title: Re: Hidden jar contained 47 gold sovereigns . . . Post by: simon c on June 06, 2009, 07:02:12 PM Very nice find,has to be a record for the Treasue inquest only 35 years,they get quicker and quicker ;D
Title: Re: Hidden jar contained 47 gold sovereigns . . . Post by: waltonbasinman on June 06, 2009, 07:07:13 PM Would love to find just one of those. Who needs a detector ehh !!!
Title: Re: Hidden jar contained 47 gold sovereigns . . . Post by: Tafflaff (Rob) on June 06, 2009, 07:09:56 PM Oh my God ! I'm checking the hedge next time I stop for a pee! :D
Title: Re: Hidden jar contained 47 gold sovereigns . . . Post by: hedgehog on June 06, 2009, 07:33:29 PM Nice story Neil, couldn't be a better time to sell them though!
Title: Re: Hidden jar contained 47 gold sovereigns . . . Post by: Richy on June 06, 2009, 07:59:56 PM And they were more interested in the jar...... :(
Oh the innocence of youth........ :) Title: Re: Hidden jar contained 47 gold sovereigns . . . Post by: melonhead on June 06, 2009, 08:28:04 PM good story i wonder how much they sold for
Title: Re: Hidden jar contained 47 gold sovereigns . . . Post by: mole on June 06, 2009, 08:43:44 PM Neil this great little find :o proves a really valid point if your luck is in you don,nt need a top of the range detector or any detector come to that!!! ;D ;Dmole
Title: Re: Hidden jar contained 47 gold sovereigns . . . Post by: DIGGA on June 06, 2009, 09:09:15 PM WHO WOULD OF BELIEVED IT THEY WERE LOOKING FOR A JAR >:( >:( >:( AND THERE WE ARE TRAMPLING ABOUT WITH DETECTORS AND USUALLY GET NOTHING ;D ;D ;D ;D TYPICAL HA HA
Title: Re: Hidden jar contained 47 gold sovereigns . . . Post by: BottyBurp (Kris) on June 07, 2009, 08:53:28 AM What a lovely surprise for those girls to be "eventually" paid out but I wonder if the value of those coins has increased or decreased over the last 35 years!
Still, I wouldn't mind a share of it ;) Burp Title: Re: Hidden jar contained 47 gold sovereigns . . . Post by: 16.5DD (richard) on June 07, 2009, 09:49:16 AM well the answer for value in comparison would be this.
if sold in 1974 you could have bought a house for say £6000 quid or so gold price was slightly lower then (not less than half of now though) so think they could have been sitting on small house between them now worth £120,000. BUT COINS ARE ONLY WORTH AROUND £10,000 APPROX NOW!!! Title: Re: Hidden jar contained 47 gold sovereigns . . . Post by: ROMAN STEVE on June 08, 2009, 07:37:40 PM cracking find a find of a lifetime thats where the word
bank comes from because they used to hide their money in the banks and hedges Title: Re: Hidden jar contained 47 gold sovereigns . . . Post by: the sutt on June 08, 2009, 09:41:28 PM im going hedge hunting next sunday i might have more luck ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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