A man with his amateur metal detector found one of England’s first gold coins. Soon, he should receive a payment of almost US$ 500 thousand (R$ 2.7 million at today’s exchange rate, 19). The coin was unearthed on farmland in Devon, in the southwest of the country.
According to a CNN report, the “Golden Henry III penny” was made around 1257 and depicts the former English king seated on an ornate throne, holding an orb and scepter. It is one of only eight known coins, many of which are in museums.
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The person who found it, who wishes to remain anonymous, didn’t realize the coin’s value until he posted a photo on Facebook. That’s when Gregory Edmund, numismatist for auctioneer Spink & Son, saw him. Under the UK Treasury Act 1996, the hobbyist who found the coin can keep and sell it as it is not considered part of a wider discovery.
The rare coin could take a windfall, according to a pre-sale estimate by British auctioneer Spink & Son in London, where the piece will be sold. To the person who found it, the coin could easily have never been found, as the area was unexplored.
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