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Friday, 27th March 2009 (1278 views)

Gold sovereigns found in North Yorkshire 35 years ago are expected to sell for £6,000 at an auction later this month.

The items were discovered in a hedgerow near Thirsk by two six-year-old girls in 1974 and are now going under the hammer after the women, now 41, decided to sell the coins and split the money, the Darlington and Stockton Times reports.

Each of the 47 pieces had been stored in a bank since their discovery, with one of the women, Marie Palliser, telling the news source that they may have been hidden by someone going off to fight in the first world war.

She explained that the girls first thought the coins were "blackened pennies" and it was only after they were shown to Ms Palliser's mother that it emerged that they were gold sovereigns.

In related news, an 18-c gold amulet dating back to around 1880 recently sold at an auction in the US city of Boston for over $40,000 (£28,000).

 

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