The hoard was unearthed by seven detectorists during Spring Detectival 2019, asDr Cook said the pandemic delayed identification, while he was also faced by the puzzle of whether he was looking at two separate hoards - one of gold coins and one of silver - and "until I look at them in detail, I couldn't make that judgement".
He is now convinced the same "poor bloke or woman - it could have been a woman - put this very large sum of money in a hiding place and couldn't go back to it, so probably died".After the Norman Conquest, the only coins in circulation were silver pennies until Edward III decided to re-introduce gold coinsThe hoard was deposited in two phases. First the silver coins, the latest of which was issued in the mid-1320s, and later the nobles were added.
Dr Cook said "people hid their money all the time as there were no banks" and the owner was probably local. "He might be an official running a manor or a priest, but he's not super rich either as the super rich didn't bury their money," he said. It was worth about £6, at a time when the king's officials had set Hambleden's entire tax assessment for a year at £5.
Buried during black plague - uncovered in our covid plague
Someone could have told me they were rare. I accidentally gave the lad in the William Hill one instead of a pound coin when I was doing my daily tenfold
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I once found a silver Edward II coin and an Edward III coin in a field in Berkhamsted. Stuck them on eBay.
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