BOY’S TREASURE TROVE
Dr. Cohen held au inquest at Horusey, London, N., on 662 Roman coins and a silver spoon, found in a garden at Cranley Gardens, Muswell Hill. Gerald Dennis Grimsdell, aged nine, stepson of Major George Carpenter, said he found the coins while amusing himself digging. Major Carpenter said he found the spoon and isolated coins in other parts of the same hole. Dr. Cohen said the coins were at least 1,800 years old, and it was the first case of its kind he had had in his 20 years’ experience. The law as to treasure trove had changed a great deal. The Treasury now returned to the finder SO per cent, of the selling value of any coins. If the find was not reported the penalty was imprisonment and a fine. The jury decided that the pieces of earthenware vase found in the hole were evidence that the coins were perfectly hidden, and found that the coins were treasure trove. Dr. Cohen then sealed the box ir which the coins were, and left at one for the Treasury' with them.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 506, 8 November 1928, Page 13
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