Treasure hunters strike goldApr 10 2006
TWO Merseyside brothers struck gold when they searched for treasure on a North Wales farm.
Peter Williams, 55, and John Williams, 57, found a gold coin and 30 silver coins buried four or five inches under the surface of a ploughed down in a field at Llay.
Their find was pronounced treasure trove at a Wrexham inquest and is likely to be put on public display at Wrexham museum.
Coroner for North East Wales John Hughes said experts agreed the coins, including a gold half-noble, silver groats and half groats, dated from mediaeval times. Some were from the reign of Edward II and others from Edward III.
The brothers, from Hawarden Road, Prenton, and Wrexham Metal Detecting Club members, first discovered 22 groats and half groats on December 4.
They returned to the same field on New Year's Day and dug up the pure gold coin and six more coins in high quality silver.
Some could be worth from £1,000 to £4,000.
All were reported to the coroner and sent to the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff for examination.
A specialist thought the collection amounted to what would have been a month's wages for a skilled tradesmen. Their face value was 11 shillings and 11 pence of old money.
Some were minted in Chester, others in York and Durham.
The coroner said a museum would pay the brothers the current value and the cash might be shared with the landowner.
Courtesy of www.icliverpool.com and Liverpool Daily Post
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