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Title: Builder finds gold coin hoard . . . Post by: Neil on June 09, 2009, 01:35:30 PM Courtesy of BBC Online 9th June 2009. A hoard of gold coins found by a builder in the cellar of an Oxfordshire flat have sold at auction for £76,360! The 400-year-old coins, minted during James I's reign, were valued by auctioneers at about £50,000 and were found in Chipping Norton 30 years ago. The coins were known as Unites They were bought by private buyers and trade dealers in a specialist coin auction in London. The two rarest coins were sold earlier to the British Museum. There were 50 bidders for the remaining 57 coins. The coins were known as Unites, signifying James I's intention to unify England and Scotland, and were worth about £1 in England when they were first produced. Auctioneer James Moreton said the builder had given the coins to his grandson along with some other items in his personal collection. He said: "The gentleman who found them originally didn't even realise they were gold. "It was only much later, when his grandson showed them to me in 2005, that I was able to tell him what they really were." Title: Re: Builder finds gold coin hoard . . . Post by: vitallius (Dave) on June 09, 2009, 02:41:25 PM Hi
What a great find, nice little story "You just never know" ;D Title: Re: Builder finds gold coin hoard . . . Post by: Richy on June 09, 2009, 03:43:15 PM Nice story Neil. :)
I'm surprtsed at the number of people who find coins,especially gold ones, and don't know what they are or what they're worth. Like the other story recently posted about the 2 girls finding sovereigns in a jar and only wanting the jar! Title: Re: Builder finds gold coin hoard . . . Post by: hedgehog on June 09, 2009, 04:08:56 PM It is a great story, I was thinking the same Richy , how can they not know it's gold :o . I thought everyone was aware of what gold looked like, learning all the time me!
Title: Re: Builder finds gold coin hoard . . . Post by: davtec (dave) on June 09, 2009, 04:19:55 PM NEIL I DONE MY CELLAR NO LUCK NO HOARD
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