{"id":414102,"date":"2025-09-10T21:13:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T21:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/414102\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T21:13:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T21:13:21","slug":"coins-found-in-whitwell-fetch-more-than-6000-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/414102\/","title":{"rendered":"Coins found in Whitwell fetch more than \u00a36,000 at auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After finding three coins, Mr Haigh said he decided to head back to his car at the top of the field, where he heard the &#8220;faintest of signals&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;At first I lost the signal, then using my probe I located a strong signal,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Hands shaking, I gently wiped the earth off the round disc in my hand and revealed a bright, shining 2,000-year-old superb gold stater with a Celtic horse and pelletal sun design. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Marking the spot with a marker, I trudged back to my jeep and rested for half an hour. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I just couldn&#8217;t believe it &#8211; I&#8217;d struck lucky again. I was even too tired to do the &#8216;gold dance&#8217; favoured by detectorists whenever they find gold.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Haigh added that he &#8220;unbelievably&#8221; found a further four gold coins of similar design in the field that afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After finding three coins, Mr Haigh said he decided to head back to his car at the top&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-414102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115182069701606469","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}