2024-02-11 18:30:12
Nunans Mayfair Auction House, which is based in the British capital, London, is offering a treasure consisting of 122 Anglo-Saxon pennies, dating back to the year 1066, for sale at public auction on February 21, and its sales are expected to achieve 180,000 British pounds (133,445 US dollars). Equity between the discoverers and the land owner.
Bradley Hooper, a coin specialist at the house, said: “The owner of the coins may have been killed during the Battle of Hastings, which took place in 1066 between the English and Norman armies on the throne of Britain, but they deserve to be paid a large sum for them due to their historical value.”
Two metal detecting experts found this treasure, which consisted of 144 coins in 2019, in a field near Braintree, Essex County, from which the Colchester Museum and the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge purchased 16 coins under the terms of the Treasure Act of 1996, and included the coins that… Two of the 11th-century Byzantine coins were purchased by the two museums, and the remaining pieces were returned to the discoverers in late 2023. The remaining 122 coins will now be sold, and the researchers will keep the rest.
Hooper added: “We are particularly fortunate that the auction catalog contains not only the rarest and most academically interesting English coins from the Braintree Treasure, but also those pieces that are in the best state of preservation.”
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