Seven metal detectorists and a lucky landowner coin it in as Britain's richest-ever treasure hoard is sold for a record £4.3m: 1,000-year-old Saxon pennies 'were buried in Somerset field after Battle of Hastings'
The 2,584 silver coins are made up of King Harold II pennies from the end of Anglo-Saxon England and William the Conqueror coins, after the 1066 Norman conquest.
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