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Middleham Hoard

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A selection of the hoard's coins now in the Yorkshire Museum
The Middleham Hoard is a coin hoard found near Middleham, North Yorkshire in England. It dates from the period of the English Civil War, and consists of 5,099 coins, all silver. It is the largest hoard of coins buried during the Civil War to have been discovered.[1] The hoard was discovered in June 1993 by William Caygill while using a metal detector. Though referred to as one hoard, the coins were buried in three pots in two pits. These had slightly different deposition dates; likely in the later 1640s, though the person making the deposits was probably the same.[2] The coins are dispersed between museums and private collections, 54 of them now in the Yorkshire Museum's numismatic collection.[3]

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