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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Mark Brown North of England correspondent

Two men guilty of conspiring to sell history-changing Anglo-Saxon coins

One of the cache of coins.
One of the cache of coins. Photograph: Durham police

A jury has found two men guilty of conspiring to illegally sell a cache of Anglo-Saxon coins that experts say helps transform our understanding of ninth-century English history and Alfred the Great.

Roger Pilling, 75, and Craig Best, 46, were caught in an undercover police operation trying to sell 44 coins which should have been declared as treasure and handed to the crown.

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