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Gold coin found near site of Battle of Tewkesbury to be auctioned in Newent
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Posted: January 21, 2014
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A treasure hunter and a farmer could split thousands of pounds between them after a rare gold coin was unearthed.
The rare Gold Angel coin from the second reign of Henry VI (1470-71) was discovered by a metal detector enthusiast at Pamington Farm in September last year.
It will be auctioned off by Smiths of Newent this Friday and is estimated to fetch between £4,000 and £6,000.
The money will be divided by the metal detector operator, Gwyn Williams, and the owner of the farm, 70-year-old Jeffrey Brown.
His son, Jonathan Brown, who also works on the farm, said the coin was discovered at the bottom of a 12-acre field.
“It was in recently cultivated land and we were about to plant in it a week later,” the 25-year-old said.
“There were about 20 of them with metal detectors and I was driving by in my tractor and they stopped me and told me they had found the coin.”
He added: “I was very excited when I heard the value of the coin.
“We are planning to buy a metal detector with the money from the sale to search the whole of the farm. It’s about 360 acres.
“We think there was a Bronze or Iron Age settlement here.”
The farm is near the site of the Battle of Tewkesbury and it is believed that the coin was dropped on the land while the fighting was taking place on May 4, 1471.
Henry VI, the Lancastrian King, was a prisoner in the Tower of London at the time and died shortly afterwards.
A Smiths spokesman said: “The farm is situated very close to the site of the historically important battle of Tewkesbury in 1471 which saw the end of the Wars of the Roses between the House of Lancaster with Henry VI and the house of York with Edward IV.
“It is tempting to think that perhaps the valuable coin was dropped by one of the many of the nobility who made their way to or from the battlefield on that fateful day.”
The spokesman added: “Smiths’ coin consultant was very excited to be asked to value and catalogue the coin which carries an estimate of £4,000/£6,000 and he is confident it will attract significant interest from coin collectors around the world.”
A number of other objects of interest were found at the farm during the search with the metal detectors.
Jonathan said: “They also found an army badge pin dating back to the Second World War, a Henry I silver coin and a medieval toy cannon.
“They have been kept by the people who found them because they are less valuable.”
The rare Gold Angel coin from the second reign of Henry VI (1470-71) was discovered by a metal detector enthusiast at Pamington Farm in September last year.
It will be auctioned off by Smiths of Newent this Friday and is estimated to fetch between £4,000 and £6,000.
The money will be divided by the metal detector operator, Gwyn Williams, and the owner of the farm, 70-year-old Jeffrey Brown.
His son, Jonathan Brown, who also works on the farm, said the coin was discovered at the bottom of a 12-acre field.
“It was in recently cultivated land and we were about to plant in it a week later,” the 25-year-old said.
“There were about 20 of them with metal detectors and I was driving by in my tractor and they stopped me and told me they had found the coin.”
He added: “I was very excited when I heard the value of the coin.
“We are planning to buy a metal detector with the money from the sale to search the whole of the farm. It’s about 360 acres.
“We think there was a Bronze or Iron Age settlement here.”
The farm is near the site of the Battle of Tewkesbury and it is believed that the coin was dropped on the land while the fighting was taking place on May 4, 1471.
Henry VI, the Lancastrian King, was a prisoner in the Tower of London at the time and died shortly afterwards.
A Smiths spokesman said: “The farm is situated very close to the site of the historically important battle of Tewkesbury in 1471 which saw the end of the Wars of the Roses between the House of Lancaster with Henry VI and the house of York with Edward IV.
“It is tempting to think that perhaps the valuable coin was dropped by one of the many of the nobility who made their way to or from the battlefield on that fateful day.”
The spokesman added: “Smiths’ coin consultant was very excited to be asked to value and catalogue the coin which carries an estimate of £4,000/£6,000 and he is confident it will attract significant interest from coin collectors around the world.”
A number of other objects of interest were found at the farm during the search with the metal detectors.
Jonathan said: “They also found an army badge pin dating back to the Second World War, a Henry I silver coin and a medieval toy cannon.
“They have been kept by the people who found them because they are less valuable.”
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