A BUTCHER who unearthed a hoard of over 680 gold and silver coins on his day off plans to sell them for £75,000.
George Ridgway, 34, said he was inspired to start "history hunting" when he was four after watching Indiana Jones movies.
He was metal detecting in a harvested barley field when he began finding coins dating from 206 BC up to the emperor Claudius in 46/47 AD.
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