Name: Most INCREDIBLE Coin Discoveries Around The World!
Uploaded: 2017-10-17T18:18:38.000Z
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From rare Viking treasures to alien artifacts,
here are 9 unbelievable coin discoveries!

In June 2013, a British man named Wesley Carrington
made one of the most spectacular discoveries

After buying a metal detector as a hobby,
he used it in the woods near St. Albans, Hertfordshire.

Initially, he did pretty well, he found a
spoon and a halfpenny.

As the metal detector continued to beep even
after finding the coin, he began to dig.

Soon, he unearthed 55 more gold Roman coins.

He took the coins to a local museum who inspected
the coins and told him they dated back 1,600

The coins - minted in Italy as well as in
other parts of Europe - were in use during

the Empire of six Roman Emperors from Honorius
to Gratian.

Carrington later admitted he used tricks he
learned on YouTube to make the find but didn’t

really know how to use his metal detector.

He said it was the cheapest detector he could
find so there is plenty of hope for everyone

I bet there were plenty of other people who
have super expensive metal detectors and have

never found anything, They are probably hating
Carrington right now.

The coins are estimated to be worth over £100,000
($128,000).

Plans were made to auction the coins but no
information could be found as to how much

In 2013, a discovery was made that still baffles
archaeologists.

Katsuren Castle in Okinawa Island, Japan,
is a UNESCO World Heritage site and was built

During a dig, archaeologists discovered four
copper coins that, at first, they took for

One of the coins bears the image of the Roman
Emperor Constantine I and has since been dated

Another shows a helmeted soldier wielding
a shield in one hand and stabbing an enemy

Since that initial find, excavation has yielded
another six coins, which may date back to

the Ottoman Empire in the late 17th century.

The find baffles archaeologists because of
the lack of direct links to Europe.

History tells us that the castle had commercial
relationships with China and other Asian countries,

so it’s possible the ancient Roman coins
found their way to Katsuren through that route

In 2014, an amateur metal detectorist unearthed
one of the largest hoards of Roman coins ever

Laurence Egerton discovered 22,000 copper-alloy
coins in Seaton, East Devon, near a field

Egerton took up metal detecting seven years
prior to his find and the best he ever found

At first, he only found two small coins on
top of the ground.

His metal detector indicated iron but Egerton
said his instincts told him there might be

After digging, he came upon two iron ingots
but the shovel full underneath them didn’t

Now called the Seaton Down Hoard, experts
believe a soldier or private individual buried

For whatever reason, they never returned to
collect the coins.

The coins would have made up a few month’s
wages for a soldier.

Today, though, they are worth tens of thousands
of dollars.

Egerton was so concerned about theft that
for three days, after archaeologists went

home for the night, he camped out in his car
to protect the dig site.

The Roman coins date back to 4th century and
contain the representation of Emperor Constantine,

the members of his family, his predecessors,
and successors.

In 2015, a stash of more than 4,000 bronze
and silver coins is believed to have been

buried some 1,700 years ago in what is today
a cherry orchard in Aargau, Switzerland.

Weighing around 15kg (33lb), the local farmer
discovered the coins after spotting something

Since a Roman settlement was discovered in
the nearby town of Frick, just a few months

before, the farmer suspected the coins might
be of Roman origin and contacted the regional

After months of excavation, 4,166 coins were
found in excellent condition.

The regional archaeological service called
the coin trove one of the biggest such finds

Some of the coins date from AD 274 and the
rule of Emperor Aurelian while other coins

come from the time of Emperor Maximian in
294.

Swiss archaeologist Georg Matter, who worked
on the excavation, said what they found within

the first three days "exceeded all expectations
by far".

A woman, named Laurie Rimon, saw something
shiny while hiking in Galilee, Israel with

It was a 2000 years old coin, bearing the
image of Emperor Augustus.

The coin dates back to 107 AD, after the Roman
destruction of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem,

and was minted by Emperor Trajan as a series
of coins to honor his predecessors.

Emperor Augustus reined from 27 BC to AD 14
and was considered divine after his death.

In fact, the coin refers to Augustus as “Divine
Augustus”.

The coin is extremely rare, with only one
other known to exist.

Rimon, from a kibbutz in northern Israel,
turned it over to the Israel Antiquities Authority.

No one is sure why this coin was in Eastern
Galilee.

It would have been very valuable in its time
period and too valuable for everyday use,

sort of like buying a soda with a hundred
dollar bill.

Therefore, it may have been part of a larger
collection of coins but no more have been

In May 2016, a treasure hunter named Brian
Morton discovered two extremely rare Viking

silver coins near Newcastle in County Down,
Ireland.

The discovery of the Hiberno-Manx silver coins
were a first for Northern Ireland, with less

than a handful found anywhere on the island
during the last four decades.