IT Contractor digs up a fortune

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NickFitz replied

7 September 2014, 12:53
Originally posted by BolshieBastard View Post

Never knew Ms Price was an IT contractor.

More THEM than IT.

(With apologies to Dorothy Parker )
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BolshieBastard replied

7 September 2014, 12:04
Originally posted by BA to the Stars View Post

Jordan also made a fortune of her threepenny bits

Never knew Ms Price was an IT contractor.
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mudskipper replied

7 September 2014, 05:35
Not IT Contractor -"self-employed IT consultant". Maybe ipse have a point...
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administrator replied

6 September 2014, 23:08
‘I think there’ll be enough to buy me some new clothes and pay a few bills,’

He could definitely do with some new trousers...
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barrydidit replied

6 September 2014, 20:51
Originally posted by BA to the Stars View Post

Jordan also made a fortune of her threepenny bits

Boom-tish!

My brother lives in Kings Clipstone. Sadly on a new-build estate. That's not gonna stop me rotavating his lawn tomorrow though
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BA to the Stars replied

6 September 2014, 20:39
Jordan also made a fortune of her threepenny bits
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BolshieBastard started a topic IT Contractor digs up a fortune

6 September 2014, 09:25
IT Contractor digs up a fortune

Minted! Dug up in a Midlands field, a £1m 'perfect' US threepenny bit from the time of Pilgrim Fathers | Mail Online

When it was minted 350 years ago, there wouldn’t have been much change from a slap-up meal and a few of pints of ale.

Today the silver threepenny coin that amateur treasure-hunter John Stoner dug up in a farmer’s field would probably buy the entire farm.

The extremely rare New England coin, bearing the date 1652, is expected to sell for up to £1million when it is auctioned.

It has been hailed as one of the finest examples of a currency produced in the days of the Pilgrim Fathers in a land that would become the United States.

How the 17th century threepenny bit ended up in the village of King’s Clipstone, Nottinghamshire, is not known but last night coin collectors from around the world clamoured to buy it.

Mr Stoner, who temporarily mislaid the coin at one point, found it while on an outing with the Coil To The Soil metal detector club on Sunday.

The 42-year-old father of two had only just started to sweep an area of the ploughed field when he picked up two signals from the detector.

The first was from a random piece of metal; the second was from an uneven, hand-hammered coin, about the size of a modern 1p but thinner, buried five inches deep in a clod of earth.

‘I dug up the soil and out it popped,’ he said of the historic find. ‘At first I didn’t think it was anything special. I knew it wasn’t English, but just how important a find it was, I didn’t have a clue.’
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