Soil still lingers on a hoard of gold coins which were found 35 years ago by two six-year-old girls, who were more interested in putting wild flowers in the glass jar in which they had been hidden. . . . For 35 years they have been in a vault.
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They date from 1869 to 1913. He said: "I think the last date is significant. They would not have gone into circulation until 1914 ? the start of the First World War.
"I think the man who owned them has possibly been called up to serve his country and has hidden them and not come back. . . "
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