3 published discoveries in the Coins category from England — coins, hoards, jewellery and artefacts recovered by detectorists and archaeologists.
Showing only Coins found in England. Show all England finds, or see Coins from everywhere.
In January 2019 a group of detectorists in Somerset found thousands of silver pennies of Harold II and William the Conqueror. Valued at £4.3 million, it is the most valuable Treasure find on record.
In 2000 a detectorist with a local fieldwork group found Iron Age coins on a Leicestershire hilltop. Excavation revealed an open-air shrine with more than 5,000 coins, silver and a Roman cavalry helmet.
In 2007 people digging a pond in a Hackney garden found a jar of 80 American gold coins. They had been buried in 1940 by a German-Jewish refugee family, and a coroner returned them to the owner's son.
