Discovered in Haslingfield in South Cambridgeshire on Monday, January 3, 2022, by 55-year-old drainage engineer Mark Pallett from Brentwood in Essex–who decided to search a stubble field that he has been to many times before with his Minelab Equinox 800–it is one of only eight examples of this ‘Crispus’ type to have been recorded on the Early Medieval Coins database at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. The gold shilling was in extremely fine condition and centrally struck with all the inscriptions visible.
Following the sale, father-of-three Mark, who has been detecting for almost 40 years, said:
“I am truly overwhelmed by the price that the coin achieved and am pleased for myself and the farmer who will get half of the proceeds.”
He continued:
“I did think about buying a new detector with the money but I don’t think that there’s anything wrong with my current one as it helped me find this wonderful coin!”
