February 2013 - Regton Metal Detectors

St Albans Roman coin hoard on display at British Museum

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Rare gold coins discovered to the north of St Albans have gone on display at the British Museum
The hoard of 159 Roman coins is believed to be one of the largest ever discoveries of their kind in the UK.

The district council revealed the discovery of the hoard last October after they were declared a nationally significant find.
The hoard of the Roman coins, called solidus (plural – solidi), are in a good condition and were found on private land to the north of the district and were scattered across a fairly wide area. It is believed the hoard was disturbed and moved to the surface in the last couple of hundred years due to quarrying or ploughing on the site.

Henry Flynn, a museum assistant who has worked on the display, said: “If you look closely at the coins in the case you will see that many of them are still muddy.
“They are all legible and can be identified, but the traces of dirt nicely show that this is a very recent find that came from the ground.
“Many people don’t realise how much work goes into treasure at the British Museum, particularly the conservation work, so hopefully this changing display will be of great interest to the public.”

Staffordshire Hoard – New faces and new finds

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Published by staffordshirehoard.org.uk website Wednesday, 16 January 2013

It is the fourth week of our 3 month journey into the world of the Staffordshire Hoard, and I can’t speak for my colleagues but its true what they say, time flies when you’re having fun. The weeks are passing at an alarming speed as we spend each day making new and consistently exciting discoveries as we micro-excavate the hoard artefacts. My name is Ciarán Lavelle and along with Natalie Harding, we have come to Birmingham to help the current team to conserve and analyse the remaining hoard artefacts that are awaiting their turn to undergo treatment, reveal their secrets and spend their 15 minutes in the limelight. Joining us as the faces on the hoard team is the new project manager Pieta Greaves.

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Article | 17th c. gold coin hoard found in Co. Tipperary pub

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Published by the history blog Wednesday, January 30th, 2013

At noon on Monday, January 14th, construction workers renovating Cooney’s Bar in the South Tipperary town of Carrick-on-Suir unearthed 81 gold coins from the 17th century. The building crew was digging a hole in front of the pub’s bar area to prep the area before pouring a new concrete pad when Shane Murray found the coins lying on their sides, back to front like they were in one of those paper tubes you get at the bank to organize your penny jar. Whatever was once holding them together has decayed but the shape remains. The space where they were stashed was a recess — possibly an old door opening or a fireplace — opposite where the pub’s front counter once stood.

Murray showed them to his boss, contractor Shane Comerford, and Comerford threw them on the ground thinking they were fakes or tokens or some other kind of insignificant geegaw. Murray knew they were for reals gold, though, so he scooped them up. He and his crewmates examined them more closely and found 17th century dates and the belaureled profiles of English monarchs Charles II, James II, William and Mary and William III.

Shane Comerford took the coins to the pub’s owner, David Kiersey, and they sought legal counsel. By Irish law, all archaeological objects belong to the state and must be declared to the authorities within 96 hours of discovery. Comerford handed over the coins to the Carrick-on-Suir gardai (Irish police) and the gardai brought them to curators at the South Tipperary Museum. They are now being examined by experts at Dublin’s National Museum.

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The 81 coins were viewed by dignitaries at the National Museum of Ireland on Wednesday, January 30th, but they are not yet on public display. Marie McMahon hopes the collection will return to its hometown for display at the South Tipperary Museum. If insurance proves to be a difficulty because of security concerns at the small local museum, replicas of the coins will be made for display.

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A hoard of gold coins are to be put on display at the National Museum

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Eighty-one gold coins dating from 17th-century are to be put on display at the National Museum in Dublin. They were found two weeks ago, hidden in the soil under the floor of u pub in Tipperary.

The National Museum of Ireland reports that the hoard was unearthed on 14th January 2013 during ground works being undertaken at Main Street, Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary.

It is believed to be the most significant gold coins find for decades. A hoard of a guineas and half guineas rapped together and hidden for hundreds of years.

Archaeologists from the Museum, who examined the site following the discovery last Friday, believe the coins may have been wrapped and held together by some material which has not survived.

The National Museum of Ireland have described it “as one of the most significant finds of the 17th century gold coins ever found in Ireland.”

The hoard was found by builders who did the right and passed them onto the authorities.

The coins will be on display in Collins Barracks within weeks and once they had been valued the honest builders will get finders fee from the state

RTE News Gold coin hoard to be displayed in National Museum