Luck or fortune may smile even and even if it seems impossible, even in the reform of a house. This is what happened A resident man from Ellerby, in northern Yorkshire (United Kingdom) who with their partner decided to reform at home from the 18th century and found under the tables of the soil and the concrete a treasure in the form of gold coins. Are Gold coins date between 1610 and 1727 And the good of this discovery and with a value that reached the 288,000 euros at auction.
Apparently, according to the medium HyPerallegicthe couple decided to make a reform in this ancient home. When lifting the floor tables and the kitchen concrete they met the gold coins. After finding it they decided to call an expert.
For the valuation and appraisal of the gold coins they called Gregory Edmund, a numerical specialist. The same catalog The finding of “wonderful and truly unexpected discovery in such a modest place” and adds that “it is different from any other finding in British archeology or any auction of currencies from which we have memory.”
A treasure valued at 300,000 euros
Although the value of the auction is unknown, experts believe that this treasure could reach a value at auction 250,000 pounds sterling (about 288,000 euros). The discovered stash was composed of some 260 gold coins, coined among the reigns of Jacobo I and Jorge I. The coins were hidden in a cup of stoppordshire ceramics, of a size similar to that of a drink of soda.
The investigations attribute the origin of the treasure to Joseph and Sarah Fernley-Maister, an influential couple of merchants who married in 1694. The Fernley-Maister were importers and exporters in Hull from the end of the 16th century until the 18th century, dedicating themselves to the trade of Baltic iron, wood and coal mineral. In addition, some family members occupied charges in Parliament at the beginning of the 18th century.
The success of their businesses allowed them to accumulate a considerable gold reserve, which they decided to hide. However, after Joseph’s death in 1725 and Sarah in 1745, the family did not leave direct heirs. This fact would explain why the treasure remained hidden and without being discovered until today.
An unsolved mystery
For researchers they find it weird how to find this treasure “so easy to find” For Edmund he was intrigued, since “They never recovered the coins when they were really easy to find just below the original floor tables of the 18th century is an even greater mystery, but it is an incredible piggy bank!”
The positive thing about this story is that the couple discovered this treasure is that SE will be 100% of the money. This is so, since not meeting the requirements to be classified as “Treasury” according to the 1996 Treasury Law, the owners were able to keep them and sell them at auction, where it was apparently sold for 250,000 sterling pounds (about 288,000 euros ).