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Queen sells super rare Iron Age coins for £4m a decade after it was discovered

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The Queen has sold the world’s largest hoard of Iron Age coins to Jersey for £4million.The Le Catillon II hoard was found on the island nine years ago by two amateur metal detectorists, who had spent decades combing a single field.Jersey Chief Minister John Le Fondre said the deal “will ensure this unique part of Jersey’s history remains in the island for this and future generations.“Since its discovery nine years ago, Jersey Heritage conservators, archaeologists and volunteers have unpicked and studied the hoard, but there is still much that it can reveal about Jersey and our place in the world at the time of Christ.”Reg Mead and Richard Miles found the 69,347 Roman and Celtic coins after a tip-off in the 1980s.

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