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Boy who dug up Roman coin hopes to make a pretty penny (www.thetimes.co.uk)

In 1973, ten-year-old Kevin Scillitoe was sifting through soil in Colchester when he came across the kind of Roman coin that metal detectorists spend their lives searching for.

 

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