Thirty years ago , a farmer found a few Iron Age Ag coin while working on his land in the island of Jersey , off the sea-coast of Normandy . Now , after combing the dirt with metal detector for three decades , two treasure hunters have found a hoard of silver and amber coins , the biggest of its kind , valued at $ 15 million .
The treasure was inside a large pulley of clay . It contains 30,000 to 50,000 ash gray and gold Celtic coin date stamp from the first Century BC . The coin — which could have been buried to foreclose papist troops from vex them during Julius Caesar ’s invasion of the British Islands — come from Armorica . They have been buried for more than 2,000 yr . accord to numismatic experts , each coin is worth 100 to 200 British Pounds ( $ 156 to $ 311 ) .
Now the treasure is at the Jersey Heritage Museum , where curator Neil Mahrer is strip and investigating them . Mahrer tell this is the biggest breakthrough of its variety : “ This is the biggest Celtic coin hoard ever found which is hugely exciting . ”
If Mahrer is excited , imagine the joyfulness of the discoverers , Reg Mead and Richard Miles . They spent thirty years of their lives trying to locate this fabled treasure using just metal detectors . to begin with this year , Mead and Miles found a stash of 61 coins , all of them silver-tongued except one made of gold .
The in force news : there may be more . The regretful newsworthiness : the States of Jersey has to say who actually own the treasure . [ YahooandDaily Mail ]
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