52,500 Reasons to be cheerful

Posted in Reflections on 28th July 2010

52,500 or so, was the number of Roman coins found in an earthenware pot which weighed in at a staggering 160kgs. The coins were made from debased silver and bronze, found as a result of metal detecting in a field by Mr David Crisp of Wiltshire. The coins have now been declared as Treasure by the East Somerset coroner Mr Tony Williams.

Lightning may well strike twice as earlier in the day, in the very same field, Mr Crisp had found 60 silver coins before moving into the record books as the discoverer of the largest single hoard of Roman coins.

A British Museum spokesman was quoted as saying that the coins found inside the pot were probably there as part of a religious offering.

The monetary value of the coins has yet to be fully determined however there is speculation that it could be worth in the region of one million pounds. The British Museum Valuation committee is expected to make a decision on the value of the silver and bronze coins in October. The reward money for the find will be divided equally between Mr Crisp (the finder) and the unnamed farmer on who's land the coins were found.

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