Jersey pair find Celtic and Roman coins worth up to £10m

Getting the coins out of the ground

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26 June 2012 Last updated at 12:05 ET Help

Jersey metal detector enthusiasts have found up to £10m worth of Roman and Celtic coins after 30 years of searching.

Reg Mead and Richard Miles found what experts believe to be about 50,000 coins in a field in the east of Jersey.

Archaeologists then came in to excavate the coins, weighing about three quarters of a tonne.

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