A metal detectorist has uncovered Britain's oldest hoard of gold coins dating back 2,173 years.
Stephen Eldridge found the 12 Iron Age pieces while searching farmland in Buckinghamshire.
Experts at the British Museum identified them as originating from a tribe in what is now Picardy in France and made in 150BC.
It is thought that the coins would have been exported to Britain probably in exchange for Celtic mercenaries going to Gaul in western Europe to fight the Romans.
While individual gold coins of this period have been found before, a hoard from this date is incredibly rare.
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