English Gold Coin Hoard 0

[EagleRJO]

I just read an article about a couple in England that found 264 rare gold coins from the 17th to 18th century in a can under their kitchen floor while doing a renovation. It is believed to have been owned by the Fernley-Maisters family who were traders and recently sold at a Spink & Son auction for $842,330. Wow!

I called a contractor this afternoon to start my kitchen renovation on Monday! 

Edited October 15, 2022 by EagleRJO

[J P M]

Wow ,The can is in real good shape.

[Mr.Bill347]

JP, you might find a can like that under your kitchen, not my house which was built in 1995 new by us. 

[EagleRJO]

On 10/15/2022 at 5:44 PM, J P M said:

Wow ,The can is in real good shape.

Maybe a copper or brass alloy can?

[The Neophyte Numismatist]

still didn't cover the renovation.

[Hoghead515]

Be lucky to find a parking lot cent eat up with zinc rot and PVC damage under my kitchen floor. That was a very cool find. Congrats to them!!!!  Thats a very interesting story. 

[Modwriter]

On 10/17/2022 at 6:20 PM, Hoghead515 said:

Be lucky to find a parking lot cent eat up with zinc rot and PVC damage under my kitchen floor. That was a very cool find. Congrats to them!!!!  Thats a very interesting story. 

That is term i was looking for! Zinc Rot. I am finding so many 2022 cents with zinc rot spots already. 

[GoldFinger1969]

Funny story involving 1929 Saints and England....a couple of guys joked that 40 of the coins had been found in England (this was the early-1980's I believe) and it reached Walter Breen who took it and ran with it apparently.  Steven Fenton (of 1933 Saint fame) and a few others were the jokesters and for a while folks assumed it was real. 

Not sure if it depressed 1929 prices for a while.

[GBrad]

I could only imagine the feeling of unearthing something like that!! Heck, I was happier than a pig in slop when I tore out a bathroom wall and found my best carpenter hammer inside the wall!  I guess it was a late night project, with too many adult beverages, when I built the original wall..... 

[GoldFinger1969]

I was conversing with some Double Eagle collectors and was told about the Hackney Hoard in England back in 2010.  This was before I was really following Saints and Double Eagles.

They were found in a garden in Hackney, England.  There were 80 DEs from 1854-1913.  the coins gradually increase in number across the decades from 1870 to 1909 (13 coins from 1870-9; 14 from 1880-89; 18 from 1890-99; and 25 from 1900-9).

The coins were buried by a Jewish family fearing a Nazi Germany invasion of Britain.  They had fled Nazi Germany a few years earlier.  The coins were buried....family members who knew the last buried location were killed during The Blitz....surviving family members didn't know where the 2 jars of coins were buried.  Descendants were tracked down in 2010 and given the coins.