A British couple found a number of rare metal currencies below the floor panels in their home, as they found a cup the size of the soda box that was shockingly full of coins that dates back between 1610 and 1727.
When they discovered the hidden treasure, the couple communicated with Spink & Son auction in London, and the company traveled to its home to verify the coins and tracked its lineage to a family for nearly 300 years, and the gold coins were the property of the Fernley-Maisters family, a wealthy family of Hull, England, they were well -known merchants, according to the New York Post.
They also discovered that the subsequent generations of the Verneley Mestter family worked as members of the Yemeni parliament and politicians in the early eighteenth century, and the coins were originally estimated at $ 231. 390, but it turned out that this number was very little – it was recently sold at an auction for $ 852. 380, according to For NBC New York.
“The sale was unique in many ways. “.
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