A metal detectorist struck gold.
A tiny gold coin has revealed a new British king A new king has been added to British history – and a world record has been set – after a coin found in a Hampshire field fetched more than £20,000 at auction. Dating from around 50 BCE and smaller than a fingernail, the gold coin is stamped with the name Esunertos, a previously unrecorded Iron Age ruler. The find by detectorist Lewis Fudge has been described by experts as ‘one of the outstanding discoveries of recent decades’.
But after three months of fighting, they left to stop a rebellion in Gaul. Danebury Ring, an Iron Age hill fort that may have been home to the newly discovered king The long-term settlement of Britain by Rome didn’t occur until 43 CE, when Claudius was emperor. Leading Iron Age experts have since studied the coin and deduced it to be struck by a pre-eminent male figure dubbed ‘IISVNIRTOS’ whose name translates as ‘Mighty as the God Esos’.
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