Liberal Democrats: Russian Embassy street should be renamed 'Zelensky Avenue'. I'm lucky nobody saw me! Read More Related Articles I was so excited I did a gold dance around the find - which is like a bad dad dance. However, when I brushed away the mud I saw the leopard and the inscription, and I knew it was an Edward III coin. It looked like a half noble, which is an exciting find but worth a few hundred pounds. Then I saw the gold coin lying at the bottom of the hole covered in mud. "I dug down 10ins and I thought it was a metal button at first. I thought I better hurry up but I would just go to the corner of the field and back and that's when I picked up a faint signal. "By 3.30pm, most people had given up and I was still in the field and I could see them in the car park. I was attending a rally with 30 other detectorists and on the day there were not that many signals. Recalling the stunning discovery, Mr Carter, a father-of-two, said: "Anyone could have found this coin - in a field, in their back garden. UK-made vaccine to protect against future pandemics receives global backing. Food prices could rise within days if Russia cuts off gas, says expert. We'll definitely get a new kitchen out of it and a trip to New Zealand because my daughter lives out there." Read More Related Articles "I will be going for a celebratory meal, maybe by then I'll be able to breathe again. 
A few years ago I got made redundant after being a scientist for 40 years - this is more than my retirement and redundancy package altogether.
"This really is a life-changing sum of money.
My hands were shaking for quite a while afterwards. "People who sat next to me at the auction kept telling me to breathe because my face must have been turning purple.
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Usually I have a full English breakfast when I stay in a hotel but this morning I could only manage toast. Mr Carter, who attended the auction, said: "I had butterflies in my tummy all day. Mr Carter, a retired research biologist from Norwich, will have to split the proceeds 50/50 with the landowner. With auction house fees added on the buyer will pay £173,000. It eventually sold for a hammer price of £140,000. Mr Carter's coin attracted international bidding when it went under the hammer at London auctioneers Dix Noonan Webb. Only three double leopards, five leopards and five helms are known today, making them highly desirable to collectors.
Aldi announces sponsorship of ParalympicsGBīetween January and July 1344, £32,000 worth of gold was minted in three denominations - the double leopard, leopard and helm. It had a face value of three shillings but was in circulation for just seven months before being withdrawn. It depicts a crowned leopard sitting upright carrying the quartered arms of England and France. The coin, which weighs 3.5 grams, was struck in 1344 and was King Edward III's ill-fated attempt to use gold coinage to facilitate European trade. The knowledgeable treasure hunter realised immediately that it was a 'leopard coin', prompting him to do a little dance in the field. At first he thought he had found a worthless metal button until he wiped off the mud and saw a glint of gold. It was dug up by Andy Carter, 65, who found it 10ins below the surface in a muddy field in Reepham, Norfolk, in October 2019. The Edward III 'leopard' coin, which was minted in 23-carat gold at the Tower of London, is one of five known surviving examples. A metal detectorist is celebrating today after an extremely rare 700-year-old gold coin he unearthed sold for £173,000.
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