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Iron Age coins are most commonly found in Britain, on pre-Roman settlement sites. Experts say that the staters were not used as currency, but were gifts exchanged between elite members of society.
It is every metal dectorist’s dream – finding gold. That dream came true for a group who discovered a hoard of 15 Iron Age coins containing gold and silver in Wales. The coins were discovered ...
Finding that coin was a magical moment. George Ridgway (inset) and some of the huge hoard of Roman and Iron Age coins he discovered while metal detecting at a site near his home in Suffolk ...
A "one-of-a-kind" cache of 933 Iron Age gold coins whose finder was convicted of attempted theft is to go on permanent display close to where it was discovered. The Great Baddow Hoard, which was found ...
Gold coins dating back more than 2,000 years have been found by metal detectorists in Wales, making them the first hoard of Iron Age gold coins to have been discovered in the country. The 15 coins ...
A museum has struck gold as it has doubled its Iron Age coin hoard. Halesworth and District Museum is displaying a potential "ancient warlord's ransom of gold coins" as another 22 Iron Age ...
“Ten other hoards of Iron Age gold coins contained in flint nodules have been found in Britain, but all of them are in museums”. A collection of 35 gold coins or staters were ...