“I’ve been buying and selling private libraries for over 20 years and we have come across lots of unusual items and letters stuck in books.
“We’ve never literally found treasure before though.
“We’re not gold or coin merchants but the coins seem to be selling for 2,300 or so online so it’s a substantial amount of money.”The first thing we did was to contact the person we bought the library from as while we agreed to buy the entire contents we never expected anything like this.
Solid gold coins worth €5,000 discovered in prayer book