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A metal detectorist in Suffolk has found a hoard of silver coins estimated to be worth £50,000.
Don Crawley, 50, had been wandering farmland with a metal detector in his home county when he came across 99 old coins including pennies and halfpennies.
They are thought to have been buried more than 1,000 years ago, in 999AD, and to date back to the reign of the Anglo-Saxon monarch, King Ethelred II.
One expert suggested they may have been buried by someone fearing a judgement day as the year turned to 1000AD.
After Mr Crawley discovered the coins officials from the local council inspected the area and found they appeared to be on the grounds of an old church.
Human bones were found there and the find revealed evidence of a previously unseen mint of coins.
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