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  • Two men using metal detectors discover hoard of 50,000 Iron Age Celtic coins

    07/03/2012 3:04:55 PM PDT · by DogByte6RER · 29 replies
    IO9 ^ | July 3, 2012 | George Dvorsky
    those metal detecTwo men using metal detectors discover hoard of 50,000 Iron Age Celtic coins Great news for all you hopeful amateur metal detectorists: Two men, who'd been searching the same field for nearly 30 years, have stumbled upon the largest hoard of Iron Age coins ever discovered in northern Europe. Inspired by legends that a local farmer once discovered silver coins on his land, the men unearthed the congealed chunk of 50,000 silver and gold coins after following a trail of pieces — that turned out not to be related to the cache. Reg Mead and Richard Miles found...