- A British couple discovered a pile of 17th century coins while renovating their home.
- The collection includes Elizabeth I's silver shilling and Charles I's gold coins.
- Further proof that the house may be hiding surprising and valuable secrets.
A British couple's home renovation project turned into a lucrative business after they discovered a $43,000 treasure trove under their kitchen floor.
Robert and Betty Hook were renovating their farmhouse in the south of England when they discovered a collection of rare 17th century coins hidden under the kitchen.
Fuchs' South Poulton Farm is a 17th century cottage located in a small village in West Dorset.
The couple bought the rowhouse in 2019 and removed the modern concrete flooring during an extensive renovation.
The coin was discovered while digging two feet to expand the downstairs area.
This discovery is the latest in a series of historic and rare discoveries made by chance in people's backyards, basements, under floors, behind walls, and attics, and could be hiding surprising secrets in your home. This is proof that there is sex.
NHS health visitor Betty Fuchs told the Guardian:
“One night my husband was digging with a pickaxe and got a call saying he had found something. He put all the coins in a bucket. If they hadn't lowered the floor, they would still be hidden there. “Sho,” she says. she said.
The collection was given to the British Museum for identification and cleaning.
Duke's Auctioneers said on its website that the British Museum believes the coin was deposited only once, around 1642-1644. Around this time, the English Civil War began, and many conflicts broke out in the area around Porton.
The Porton Coin Trove, consisting of 1,000 coins, will be auctioned off at Duke's Auctions on April 23rd.
The collection includes Elizabeth I's silver shilling, Charles I's gold Unite coin and James I's silver sixpence coin, with an estimated value of £35,000 ($43,600).
Business Insider has reached out to Duke's Auctioneers for comment.
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In 2019, a similar discovery was made by another couple in the UK.
A hoard of 264 British gold coins dating from 1610 to 1727 was unearthed by an anonymous couple digging through their kitchen floor.
It is believed that the treasury once belonged to a merchant family who made their fortune in Baltic trade.
The collection sold at auction in 2022 for £754,000, or $842,330.
Small and easy to hide coins are often found in hidden treasure troves that unsuspecting homeowners stumble across. Other lost artifacts range from first editions of superhero comics to rare vintage cars.
But one of the most incredible discoveries was a 16th-century Italian Renaissance masterpiece hidden under an old mattress in a French attic in 2014.
Caravaggio's canvas “Judith Beheading Holofernes'' was later sold for $170 million.
The report said the anonymous family who shared the amazing windfall speculated that the work may have been taken from Italy by ancestors who fought in Napoleon's army in the early 19th century.
