# 14 years ago, a 9-year-old found a 700-year-old coin...

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**Created:** [November 12, 2019, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-years-ago-a-9-year-old-found-a-700-year-old-coin/843331 "2019-11-12T15:53:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-years-ago-a-9-year-old-found-a-700-year-old-coin/843331/21 "2019-11-13T01:11:59Z")

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> [@Chefguy](#):
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> Everything I know about this I learned from the series “The Detectorists”. If y’all haven’t seen it, it’s a gentle, funny series about the oddities of some folks who look for buried treasure for a hobby.

My knowledge of the regulations continued with _The Detectorists_ but began with [_The Mildenhall Treasure_ by Roald Dahl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mildenhall_Treasure). ([Here](https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.pc.gsu.edu/dist/6/45/files/2017/09/Dahl-Mildenhall-to-post-2ns74cf.pdf) is a PDF of the full article.)

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