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Ancient Coins In A Barley Field

Back in the late 1990s, two cousins were having a good time out at their family farm in England. Martin Elliott brought along a metal detector and showed his cousin Kevin the proper way to use it. While the two were playing around with the equipment they came across way more than they bargained for. Soon they had unearthed silver coins. However, it was from where the coins originated from that was a completely amazing and unexpected find. First, there was a huge amount of them. The massive amount of coins, 9,213 of them, were actually ancient silver coins called denarius coins. See what happened next.