Couple who struck gold while renovating kitchen sell coins for £750,000
They found the rare coins under their floorboards in 2019
A couple from North Yorkshire who literally struck gold when renovating their kitchen have sold precious coins at auction for more than £750,000.
The couple, from Ellerby, discovered the stash under their kitchen floorboards in 2019, with experts believing them to be around 300 years old.
Dating from 1610 to 17T27, they belonged to a merchant from Hull, and were expected to fetch around £250,000.
But they went for more than three times their expected price, with auctioneer Gregory Edmund saying it was a "unique sale" in many ways.
"The story of the coins, the method of discovery and the rare opportunity to buy them at auction.
"All that combined in a buoyant and energised market to create incredible new prices as the 264 coins of the Ellerby hoard found new homes.
"I have never seen a response to an auction like that before, and the results testify it, my provisional estimate was demolished three times over”