{"id":141522,"date":"2020-12-24T22:04:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T19:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/birdwatcher-discovers-1m-worth-of-ancient-celtic-gold-coins\/"},"modified":"2020-12-24T22:04:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T19:04:25","slug":"birdwatcher-discovers-1m-worth-of-ancient-celtic-gold-coins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/birdwatcher-discovers-1m-worth-of-ancient-celtic-gold-coins\/","title":{"rendered":"#Birdwatcher discovers $1M worth of ancient Celtic gold coins"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Birdwatcher discovers $1M worth of ancient Celtic gold coins<\/strong>”
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Christmas came in September for one British birder who stumbled upon a million-dollar cache of ancient Celtic coins while tracking a \u201cdogfight\u201d in the English countryside.<\/p>\n

The gold medallions \u2014 almost mistaken for an old machinery part \u2014 date back over 2,000 years to the age when the fierce Celtic queen Boudicca was at war with Rome, according to app<\/a>raisers, who estimate the prize to be worth \u00a3845,000, or about $1,144,000.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a \u201clife-changing\u201d sum for the lucky finder, reportedly in his 50s, who chose to remain anonymous in a recent interview<\/a> with Treasure Hunting<\/a> magazine. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat evening I was doing a bit of bird-watching,\u201d he said. \u201cAfter watching a dogfight between a buzzard and a pair of magpies, I stared down and spotted something lying in a bit of the deep ploughed soil which ran around the edge of the field.\u201d<\/p>\n

He nearly passed it, thinking the metal chip was an old washer. Then he \u201crubbed it and felt its thickness.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw the glint of gold and realized it was a beautiful Celtic gold stater, which made me sit down in sheer shock,\u201d he said. \u201cI then spotted the second coin two feet away and rushed home to get my [metal detector].\u201d It gave him a \u201creally strong\u201d signal that more was just below the surface.<\/p>\n

After about 18 inches of digging, he unearthed a copper bangle \u2014 likely the handle of a pitcher of gold coins. \u201cGently,\u201d he lifted the vessel and out came a \u201ccascade\u201d of gold \u2014 \u201ca vision which will remain with me for the rest of my life,\u201d he recalled. \u201cI had to sit down to get my breath back. I had only come out for a walk and found a Celtic hoard.\u201d<\/p>\n

As if written for a film, a nearby dog walker passed the man and yelled, jokingly, \u201cYou found gold yet?\u201d he claimed. \u201cIf only you knew,\u201d he thought. <\/p>\n

The man said he prayed his two shopping bags stuffed with 1,300 gold coins \u2014 each worth up to $880 \u2014 would hold up on the walk home. He then notified the local coroner\u2019s office, which oversees protocol in accordance with the UK\u2019s Treasure Act of 1996, including the decision of who gets to keep the coinage: the finder, the landowner or a local museum. <\/p>\n

Treasure Hunting\u2019s editor Julian Evans-Hart said in a statement, \u201cThe coins form a substantial if not enormous contribution to our academic numismatic knowledge and will undoubtedly be subject to much assessment over the coming year.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is possible that they may form a deposit as a \u2018war chest\u2019 for Boudicca\u2019s eastern campaigns,\u201d continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe previous record was 850 and that was the Wickham Market Hoard found in 2008. At this stage it seems highly likely that the discovery might well knock that find off top spot.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Birdwatcher discovers $1M worth of ancient Celtic gold coins” Christmas came in September for one British birder who stumbled upon a million-dollar cache of ancient Celtic coins while tracking a \u201cdogfight\u201d in the English countryside. The gold medallions \u2014 almost mistaken for an old machinery part \u2014 date back over 2,000 years to the age…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/gold-coins.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[87636,87776,71835,5378,76952,4966],"class_list":["post-141522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-12-24-20","tag-celtic","tag-gold","tag-history","tag-treasure","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}