1257 Gold Coin Found In England Field Worth $500k

Good link, thanks.

Cool!
I didn't know anything gold was being coined in England back then.
And based on the photos, it just goes to show how gold can hold up in adverse circumstances (I mean the surface quality )

Great story. Thanks for the link!

As the article says, this was one of the earliest. With such apparently tiny mintages, it's assumed that gold coins at this period were mainly made as presentation pieces, rather than as a functioning part of the monetary system. Though I would note that, for this specific coin type at least, someone went to all the trouble to make a pair of special gold-coin dies, rather than simply re-use the silver penny dies that most earlier gold coins had been struck from.


It's been said that if the dinosaurs had made gold coins, we'd be able to dig them up, and they'd be in just as pristine a condition. Gold simply doesn't corrode under Earth-normal environmental conditions.

I saw the other day it sold for $720,000