Family Finds Trove Of Rare Tudor Coins Buried In Backyard–Now They Can Sell At Auction

Family Finds Trove Of Rare Tudor Coins Buried In Backyard–Now They Can Sell At Auction

Family Finds Trove Of Rare Tudor Coins Buried In Backyard–Now They Can Sell At Auction – credit, Numismatica Ars Classica English news headlines are no stranger to buried treasure. Thousands of silver coins have been found by citizens up and down the country over the last 50 years. Gold ones, however, are substantially rarer, and that makes this haul of 69 gold coins from the Tudor dynasties of 15th and 16th-century England one of the most incredible in decades. Found embedded in a patch of clay under a garden during fence maintenance at a family’s home in the south England coastal area of Hampshire, the haul was kept secret from the public while its discovery was reported to the British Museum’s Portable Antiquities Scheme. With 63 coins found in 2020, archaeologists eventually visited the property and turned up another 6 nearby a year later. Now, on November 5th, the treasure, called the New Forest Hoard, will be sold by the Swiss coin auctioneer and appraiser Numismatica Ars Classica. Sm…