Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Europe's largest Roman and Celtic coin hoard worth £10million ($15.6m) found in UK channel islands - @JEPnews

THE gold and silver treasure of a Celtic army worth millions has been unearthed in a Jersey field by two men with metal detectors.

It is thought that the hoard of an estimated 50,000 to 60,000 iron-age coins is the biggest such find ever discovered from the Celtic world, which once stretched across northern and western Europe.

• Full report and pictures in today’s Jersey Evening Post


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