A Briton has just become perhaps the luckiest man in the world after he found a hoard of 158 gold coins worth roughly 100,000 pounds sterling or a whopping $156,000 using his newly-bought metal detector.
In a story released by St. Albans & Harpenden Review, Wesley Carrington discovered the hoard of precious ancient Roman solidus after just 20 minutes of using his metal detector on a field near St. Albans in Hertfordshire, England last October.
Carrington's machine detected a silver spoon and a half penny in its first two beeps but he didn't know what he was going to find next.
The third time his detector beeped, Carrington burrowed seven inches down to discover a gold-plated coin with a Roman figure inscribed on it. Carrington spent the succeeding hours roving his detector over the field and found 55 coins on the first day.
He then returned to the site with a team of expert and collected 104 additional coins, making it the largest hoard of Roman gold coins ever discovered in England.
More details in http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/476647/20130610/world-s-luckiest-man-gold-coins-metal.htm
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