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Steve Rice has been Metal Detecting for over 20 years. He is a member and past chairman of the South Lancs and Cheshire Metal Detecting Club.

Steve will endeavour to keep everyone up to date with his finds (and other members' finds) as well as the hobby in general. He is also a keen Coin Collector and Historian and will keep you upto date with this also.

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Suffolk Coin Hoard

Posted by ricey on January 26, 2007 2:24 PM | 

Another old hoard story for the record.

Buried Treasure in Suffolk

Suffolk's Paul Flack never expected to stumble upon Britain's largest hoard of third century coins when he left his home for a day of metal detecting.

The Bury St Edmunds Museum is preparing to fight it out for Britain's largest collection of antique copper coins. The treasure was discovered in Suffolk in October when Paul Flack gained permission from a local land owner to do some metal detecting. The coins are the largest legitimate collection of third century coins in Britain, and are very important historically.

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