Couple who found old gold coins under their kitchen floor are $1.3 million richer
A couple who found a jar of old gold coins under their kitchen floor are ?754,000 ($1.3 million) richer after selling the surprise treasure trove at auction.
The home owners in England were laying new flooring, ripping up the existing floorboards and jackhammering through the concrete beneath, when they struck a bounty: 260 ancient coins in a small urn.
The coins unearthed in the dirt below the East Yorkshire property were dated from 1610 to 1727 and belonged to a mercantile family who traded through the Baltic region, according to the BBC.
Auctioneer Gregory Edmund told the BBC the sale sum was an ?absolutely extraordinary? result.
He said the urn holding the coins was no larger than a lemonade can.
?Picture the scene: you?re choosing to re-lay your uneven kitchen floor, you put a pickaxe through the concrete and just beneath you see a tiny sliver of gold,? he said.
?At the time you think it must just be a bit of electrical cable, but you find it?s a gold round disc and beneath it there are hundreds more.
?I will never see an auction like this again.?
The hoard was one of the largest collections of 18th-century gold coins ever found in the UK, auction house Spink & Son said.
Image Credit: Spink & Son
More: https://www.smh.com.au/property/living/couple-who-found-old-gold-coins-under-their-kitchen-floor-are-1-3-million-richer-20221011-p5bos3.html
A couple who found a jar of old gold coins under their kitchen floor are ?754,000 ($1.3 million) richer after selling the surprise treasure trove at auction.
The home owners in England were laying new flooring, ripping up the existing floorboards and jackhammering through the concrete beneath, when they struck a bounty: 260 ancient coins in a small urn.
The coins unearthed in the dirt below the East Yorkshire property were dated from 1610 to 1727 and belonged to a mercantile family who traded through the Baltic region, according to the BBC.
Auctioneer Gregory Edmund told the BBC the sale sum was an ?absolutely extraordinary? result.
He said the urn holding the coins was no larger than a lemonade can.
?Picture the scene: you?re choosing to re-lay your uneven kitchen floor, you put a pickaxe through the concrete and just beneath you see a tiny sliver of gold,? he said.
?At the time you think it must just be a bit of electrical cable, but you find it?s a gold round disc and beneath it there are hundreds more.
?I will never see an auction like this again.?
The hoard was one of the largest collections of 18th-century gold coins ever found in the UK, auction house Spink & Son said.
Image Credit: Spink & Son
More: https://www.smh.com.au/property/living/couple-who-found-old-gold-coins-under-their-kitchen-floor-are-1-3-million-richer-20221011-p5bos3.html
