Detecting an Iron Age record
Showing that not all the best UK numismatic action takes place in London, the first known gold coin of Caratacus – unearthed by a metal detectorist a year earlier in a Berkshire field – sold at auction for a record £71,000 an auction in Norwich.
Caratacus, king of the Catuvellauni tribe, is one of the few figures that have come down to us fro…