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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bart9349, post: 8514954, member: 5682&quot;][ATTACH=full]1505763[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>(Sorry if this story was posted before. These coins are coming up for auction soon.)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1505764[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I enjoy the study of ancient coin hoards, putting them in their social and historical contexts. This more modern coin hoard is no exception:</p><p><br /></p><p>The discovery occurred in 2019, when contractors unearthed a salt-glazed earthenware cup, similar in size to a soda can, as they pried up the floorboards during the renovation project at the 18th-century home, located in Ellerby, a village in North Yorkshire.</p><p><br /></p><p>The cache, which is estimated to be valued at around $290,000 (250,000 pounds) at auction, is believed to be one of the largest hoards of 17th- and 18th-century English gold coins ever found in Britain and includes more than 260 gold coins dating to between 1610 and 1727, according to CNN.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coins likely belonged to Joseph and Sarah Fernley-Maisters, members of an influential mercantile family that included several members of Parliament who lived in the area during the late 1600s and early 1700s, according to the statement.</p><p>&quot;Joseph and Sarah clearly distrusted the newly formed Bank of England, the &#039;banknote&#039; and even the gold coinage of their day because they [chose] to hold onto so many coins dating to the English Civil War and beforehand.”</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.livescience.com/gold-coins-discovered-under-kitchen-floorboards-england" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.livescience.com/gold-coins-discovered-under-kitchen-floorboards-england" rel="nofollow">https://www.livescience.com/gold-coins-discovered-under-kitchen-floorboards-england</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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