This Cache of 1,000-Year-Old Silver Pennies Is Valued at $5.6 Million

A massive hoard of 1,000-year-old silver pennies found by a group of people learning how to use metal detectors in 2019 were recently valued at $5.6 million (£4.3 million), making it the highest-valued treasure in England.

In January 2019, seven people with metal detectors “on a speculative trip to a soggy field” found the 2,584 coins in the Chew Valley area of Bath and North East Somerset. The group spent four to five hours digging up the hoard and were not deterred by a…