Couple finds $800K in rare gold coins — hidden under kitchen floor - New York Post

Penny for your thoughts?

While undertaking a caller location renovation project, a mates from Ellerby successful North Yorkshire, England, deed the jackpot aft they recovered a cupful filled with 264 golden coins worthy much than $800,000 underneath their room floor. 

The brace initially thought that they had travel crossed an electrical cord six inches nether their floorboards, according to The Sun — but erstwhile they investigated further, it really turned retired to beryllium a cupful the size of a soda tin that was shockingly filled with coins dating from betwixt 1610 to 1727.

When they discovered the treasure trove, the mates reached retired to Spink & Son, a London-based auction company, according to the outlet. The institution traveled to their location to cheque retired the coins and traced their lineage backmost to a household astir 300 years ago.

According to The Sun, the golden coins belonged to the Fernley-Maisters, a affluent household from Hull, England, who were well-known merchants. They besides discovered that aboriginal generations of the Fernley-Maister household served arsenic members of Parliament and Whig politicians successful the aboriginal 1700s. 

The coins were primitively estimated to beryllium worthy $231,390, but that fig turned retired to beryllium conscionable a wee spot disconnected — they precocious sold astatine auction for $852,380, according to NBC New York. 

“The merchantability was unsocial successful truthful galore ways,” auctioneer Gregory Edmund told The Sun, alluding to “the communicative of the coins, the method of find and the uncommon accidental to bargain them astatine auction.”

Edmund added: “All that combined successful a buoyant and energised marketplace to make unthinkable caller prices arsenic the 264 coins of the Ellerby hoard recovered caller homes.”

One of the coins, a Charles II guinea, adjacent had a mint mistake connected it — alternatively of “CAROLVS,” it was accidentally spelled “CRAOLVS.” Another coin was a uncommon Scottish issue, according to NBC. 

The mates recovered the coins successful July 2019 and person lived successful the location for 10 years. They person not revealed their individuality publicly.