Medieval Gold Coins Unearthed in Eastern England

REEPHAM, ENGLAND—BBC News reports that a metal detectorist found two gold coins minted during the reign of Edward III in eastern England in 2019. The king re-introduced gold coins to England at a time when only silver pennies were in circulation. “The royal treasury might talk in terms of pounds, shillings and pence, but the physical reality was sacks of silver pennies,” said Helen Geake of the British Museum. One of the coins, known as a leopard for the two leopards’ hea