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The coins are believed to have belonged to the Fernley-Maisters, a family which was involved in the Baltic maritime trade network out of the port city of Hull, located nearby to where the bounty was found. Auctioneer Gregory Edmund called the discovery “120 years of English“Picture the scene: you’re choosing to re-lay your uneven kitchen floor, you put a pick-ax through the concrete and just beneath, you see a tiny sliver of gold,” he said.
“I have never seen a response to an auction like that before, and the results testify it, my provisional estimate was demolished three times over,” Edmund toldRelated Stories
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