A treasure-hunting couple are planning on buying a new kitchen after selling a hoard of 14th Century gold coins they found for over £50,000. Pensioners Phil and Joan Castle stumbled upon the 'purse hoard' with their metal detectors in a ploughed field at Romney Marsh, Kent.
Joan, 70, first located a broken forged gold coin on the surface then got a signal and dug down 8ins to discover the brass bar of a Medieval purse that had long disintegrated. Over the next two hours, she and 71-year-old husband Phil unearthed five gold coins in an area of just 16ft.
The couple rubbed off the mud to find the 700-year-old coins to be in mint condition. The 1.5ins diameter pieces were Noble coins - the first English gold coin produced in quantity.
