Discover treasure of 6 million USD

With metal detectors, couple Adam Staples and Lisa Grace found 2,571 coins dating back 1,000 years on the northeast farm of Somerset county.

Coins are more than 1,000 years old in Somerset.(Photo: Mirror).

Although smaller than Staffordshire treasure, the largest collection of coins and artifacts excavated in the UK, the number of coins Staples and girlfriend discovered in January was worth at least $ 1.2 million. A total of 2,571 silver coins included coins under the reign of King Harold II at the end of the Anglo-Saxon era and King William I's dynasty worth an estimated $ 5 million. Many of them are minted coins, worth up to US $ 1,200-6,100 each.

Experts say this is a large amount of medieval money and belongs to a rich person with a high status. The treasure owner may have buried the money for storage. Due to King Harold's reign nine months before he was hit by an arrow in the battle of Hastings, the coins of that period were extremely rare.

Under British law, Staples and Grace must return the treasure of coins to the British museum in London to set prices. Experts at the museum have spent the past 7 months evaluating and classifying coins and announcing treasure for the first time last weekend.

If the value of the treasure is confirmed, the museum has the right to decide the amount of compensation for Staples and Grace. Landowners are also entitled to 50% cash value of coins. If the museum thinks that the coins are not important, they will return them to the founders and the couple has the right to sell.

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