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Mint silver penny of King Ethelred II - showing the Anglo-saxon kings head.
A builder is celebrating today after an enormous hoard of silver coins he unearthed sold for £90,000.
Don Crawley was searching farmland with his metal detector when he stumbled upon the buried treasure.
He dug up 99 silver coins - 81 pennies and 18 cut halfpennies - all dating back to Anglo Saxon England and the reign of King Ethelred II from 978-1016AD.
The discovery was made on farmland in Suffolk and research has established that the site used to be the grounds of a long-forgotten Saxon church. Specialists even later uncovered the remains of human bones from the site dating back over 1,000 years.
Don's hoard went under the hammer with London auctioneers Dix Noonan Webb - with the coins substantially out-performing their £50,000 pre-sale estimate.
Pic: DNW/BNPS
Mint silver penny of King Ethelred II - showing the Anglo-saxon kings head.
A builder is celebrating today after an enormous hoard of silver coins he unearthed sold for £90,000.
Don Crawley was searching farmland with his metal detector when he stumbled upon the buried treasure.
He dug up 99 silver coins - 81 pennies and 18 cut halfpennies - all dating back to Anglo Saxon England and the reign of King Ethelred II from 978-1016AD.
The discovery was made on farmland in Suffolk and research has established that the site used to be the grounds of a long-forgotten Saxon church. Specialists even later uncovered the remains of human bones from the site dating back over 1,000 years.
Don's hoard went under the hammer with London auctioneers Dix Noonan Webb - with the coins substantially out-performing their £50,000 pre-sale estimate.
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