I Just Love 'Good Luck' Stories Like This,

I can not help thinking, 'if only'

it could have been me! although the finder and exact location are being kept secret some lucky fellow armed with a basic Garrett Ace 150, retailing at around £135 and described as being ideal for children to use for a hobby, walked into metal a detecting shop in shock weeks later after making his purchase last year with 40 gold Solidi, before asking them: 'what do I do with this?' Hidden History owned by David Sewell with Mark Becher in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire then contacted local experts and together got the permits they needed, headed back to the scene and pulled up another 119 gleaming pieces,


the 22 carat gold coins are a rare example of the Solidus, dating from the last days of Roman rule in Britain, the last consignments of them reached these shores in 408AD, a spokesman for St Albans City and District Council said: 'a nationally significant find of 159 Late Roman gold coins has been found by a metal detectorist on private land in the north of the district of St Albans, in Hertfordshire, the council has now referred the hoard to experts at the British Museum to investigate and prepare a report for the local coroner, 


and what are they worth? they will also determine the value of the coins, which could fetch anything from £400 to £1,000 apiece, lucky or what! so when we go back to the UK where did I put my metal detector and where do I start looking?