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<p>[QUOTE="scottishmoney, post: 7384569, member: 12789"]Americans oft have opins that Brits are ripped off by reporting finds - quite the contrary, you are rewarded and the find becomes a part of historical record.</p><p><br /></p><p>£24 was a huge amount of dosh back then, the average wage was 1d a day and it would take 240 of those to equal a pound. Interesting that they surmise that the gold was from a monastery that Henry VIII had destroyed because they and a very select few merchants would have been the only possible owners of gold coin in that era.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="scottishmoney, post: 7384569, member: 12789"]Americans oft have opins that Brits are ripped off by reporting finds - quite the contrary, you are rewarded and the find becomes a part of historical record. £24 was a huge amount of dosh back then, the average wage was 1d a day and it would take 240 of those to equal a pound. Interesting that they surmise that the gold was from a monastery that Henry VIII had destroyed because they and a very select few merchants would have been the only possible owners of gold coin in that era.[/QUOTE]
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