The find includes more than 1,000 gold and silver coins that were likely hidden during the first English Civil War. Betty and Robert Fooks unexpectedly unearthed the 17th-century hoard at their ...

Yet, in an unexpected twist, one family remodeling their home in England stumbled upon a windfall—more than 1,000 17th-century ... notified the British Museum and sent the coins to experts ...

A couple digging up the kitchen floor of their newly-bought 17th century cottage found a £35,000 hoard of coins dating back to the English Civil War hidden under the concrete. Robert Fooks had ...

Fooks' South Poorton Farm is a 17th-century cottage located in a ... Dukes Auctioneers said on its website that the British Museum believes the coins were deposited on one occasion around 1642-4.

A PRIZED coin collection with some of the rarest examples of hammered gold in British history has sold for £1.1million. A Charles I piece from 1643 was the top item, going for £222,000.

A collection of 17th-18th century gold coins was found in England ... at auction for £754,000 ($842,330). The hoard of 264 coins English gold coins from 1610-1727 was discovered when the unnamed ...

One tarnished silver coin at a time, the ground is yielding ... the lost history behind one of the greatest crimes of the 17th century," he said.

A coin dating back to the 17th Century has been discovered ... began producing its own money in the 19th Century, as both French and British coinage was accepted as legal tender.