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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Copper Head, post: 1475757, member: 26489&quot;]<b>Published June 27, 2012</b></p><p><b>FoxNews.com</b></p><p><br /></p><p>After a search that spanned three decades, two amateur treasure hunters have uncovered the biggest ever hoard of Iron Age silver and gold coins in the UK&nbsp; -- weighing a full ton and valued at $15 million.</p><p><br /></p><p>Reg Mead and Richard Miles found the stash using a high powered metal detector called a deepseeker. What they discovered was a large block of clay containing 30,000 to 50,000 gold and silver coins dating from the 1st Century BC.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coins—which could have been buried to prevent Roman troops from getting them during Julius Caesar&#039;s invasion of the British Islands—come from Armorica, modern day Brittany and Normandy. They have been buried for more than 2,000 years.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/06/27/ancient-coins-worth-15-million-found-by-amateur-treasure-hunters-after-30-year/?intcmp=features" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/06/27/ancient-coins-worth-15-million-found-by-amateur-treasure-hunters-after-30-year/?intcmp=features" rel="nofollow">Story here</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This should keep them digging for another 30 years.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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