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A rare treasure of silver coins from the 11th century

Nearly 1,000-year-old silver coins in excellent condition have been discovered during excavations at the site of a future nuclear power station in England. They were found by a team of archaeologists from Oxford Cotswold Archaeology. They were wrapped in a tight package made up of strips of cloth and lead.

Coinage of Francis II (I.) and emergency coins of the Great French War

Today's edition of the numismatic review on Treasure Hunters takes us back to the reign of Francis II (I.) and the time of the Napoleonic Wars - an era popular with history hunters not only because of the partial of this conflict on our territory, but also because of the great variety of coins that this era gave rise to.

Coins of Ferdinand V and revolutionary coins from 1848-1849

In today's article devoted to Ferdinand I the Good, we will focus not only on his person and the difficult time accompanying the end of his reign, the talk will be as usual mainly about coins...

Coins of Franz Joseph I. (Part II) - conventional and goldsmith's currency

We started our journey through the coins circulating in our territory in an unconventional way, in reverse chronological order, i.e. with the crown currency. With each subsequent article, we will uncover older and deeper "layers" of the history of metallic payments that circulated in our countries, as we do with metal detectors. Today, in the second part of the article, we will focus on the older conventional and Austrian currency. First, however, we should introduce in more detail the person of Emperor Franz Joseph I.

Builders have found the largest coin hoard of the Roman emperor Nero

A nearly 2,000-year-old hoard of silver coins dating back to the reign of Roman Emperor Nero has been discovered in Worcestershire, England. It is the largest coinage of this emperor ever discovered in the Roman Empire.

Crown currency in the territory of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1892-1918)

The following article deals only with the issue of coins of crown currency - that is, coins that can be found using a metal detector.

They searched for the Roman road and discovered a million-dollar treasure from the Thirty Years' War

A father and son discovered a treasure trove of rare European coins from the 16th and 17th centuries near Pomiechówek, Poland, with the help of metal detectors. Most of the coins are in excellent condition; their estimated value is almost CZK 3 million.

A hoard of medieval silver coins near a castle in Devon

Late last year, members of the detectorist society "The Teignbridge History Finders" from Newton Abbot discovered a hoard of silver coins in a field about a mile from Okehampton Castle. It was one of their first ever expeditions. Now the find has been declared a treasure and offered to museums for purchase...

Nonprofit buys detector treasure for more than $100 million

The South West Heritage Trust has purchased a treasure trove of 2,584 silver coins dating back to the Norman Conquest of England for the nation. The set, discovered by seven detectorists in the Chew Valley in Somerset, was sold for an asking price of £4.3 million (about 130.5 million crowns). It is the most expensive treasure purchase ever made in England; more expensive than the world-famous Staffordshire hoard...

Returning from the field 5 metres from the car, he discovered a life coin worth hundreds of thousands

Retired builder Paul Capewell from Selston in Nottinghamshire has been searching with a metal detector for more than 40 years. He started as a youngster with his father. Now he has found the rarest coin of his life so far in a field where he has been searching for 20 years...

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