Treasure Coins

£90,000 is being given to scientific and educational projects which will study the Le Câtillon II coin hoard, discovered by two detectorists in Jersey in 2012.

Experts are calling for a survey of the Jersey site where more than 70,000 coins were found because of people illegally metal detecting and looting.

A highly valuable gold coin dating back 400 years has been found among a hoard of of old pennies in the drawer of a home a couple in Tunbridge Wells.