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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NewStyleKing, post: 4571488, member: 106483&quot;]In July 1908, a group of workmen in Brussels were pulling down an old tavern near a cathedral in the city centre during construction of the main railway line.</p><p>As they dug down, they discovered a large container placed in a bricked-up vault beneath a water cistern. The container apparently crumbled as soon as it was touched - hardly surprising considering it had probably been sealed over 600 years before.</p><p><br /></p><p>But what they found inside was truly astounding: an extraordinary array of over 140,000 medieval coins, the largest deliberately buried hoard of coins ever found, according to Guinness World Records.</p><p><br /></p><p>Known as the Brussels Hoard, it comprised roughly 64,000 continental coins but also 81,000 English, Scottish and Irish silver pennies. With so many examples minted in England during the reign of Henry III (1216-72), the hoard might well have originally been some sort of Royal payment for trade or military purposes.</p><p><br /></p><p>But whatever the reason for its existence, it seems the hoard was deposited for safe-keeping back in 1267 during the unrest in the Flemish capital when the city&#039;s craft guilds armed themselves and rebelled against the authorities.</p><p><br /></p><ul> <li>ATG Reporter</li> <li>10 Sep 2012</li> </ul><p><a href="https://gazette-eu-west2.azureedge.net/media/3019/2057ne04b-12-09-10.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://gazette-eu-west2.azureedge.net/media/3019/2057ne04b-12-09-10.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://gazette-eu-west2.azureedge.net/media/3019/2057ne04b-12-09-10.jpg?width=700&amp;height=400&amp;mode=max&amp;updated=08%2f03%2f2017+16%3a45%3a41" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>One of the 101 coins from the Brussels Hoard which will be offered at Baldwin’s on September 27. This Henry III penny (long cross) minted in London is one of three of its type in the collection and is estimated at £1000-1200.</p><p><a href="https://gazette-eu-west2.azureedge.net/media/3018/2057ne04a-12-09-10.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://gazette-eu-west2.azureedge.net/media/3018/2057ne04a-12-09-10.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://gazette-eu-west2.azureedge.net/media/3018/2057ne04a-12-09-10.jpg?width=700&amp;height=400&amp;mode=max&amp;updated=08%2f03%2f2017+16%3a45%3a41" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><ul> <li></li> </ul><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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