{"id":426865,"date":"2026-02-15T10:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T10:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/426865\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T10:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T10:31:07","slug":"professor-finds-iron-age-coin-hoard-near-bury-st-edmunds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/426865\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor finds Iron Age coin hoard near Bury St Edmunds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The collection will be auctioned at Noonans in Mayfair on 4 March as part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noonans.co.uk\/auctions\/calendar\/898\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">coins and historical medals, external<\/a> sale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alice Cullen, coin specialist at Noonans, said the hoard fits the pattern for burials -being found on the east-facing side of a hill. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Licence believes the &#8220;morning sun illuminating the hillcrest and a spring rising at the same spot&#8221; is a combination that could point to this hoard, and others like it, having a religious significance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Among the highlights of the hoard are  the Addedomaros wheel stater, which confirms the spelling of the name on that early type, which was previously uncertain. It is estimated to fetch \u00a33,000-3,600.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Dubnovellaunos stater, with a previously unrecorded die, is expected to fetch \u00a31,500-2,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The collection will be auctioned at Noonans in Mayfair on 4 March as part of a coins and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-426865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}