Couple Pulls Up Kitchen Floor And Finds $850K In Rare Gold Coins

When we do any type of home renovation, we don’t quite know what to expect when we pull up the floor or open a wall. There might be something unexpected behind it, such as a leaky pipe or another problem.

For a couple in North Yorkshire, England, a home renovation project revealed a very different type of surprise. After pulling up their kitchen floor, they found 264 gold coins in a small container. By the time the story was over, they had an additional $852,000 in their pocket.

According to The Sun, the couple thought they were looking at an electrical cord that was buried under the floorboards. When they looked into it a little more closely, it turned out to be a container about the size of a soda can that was filled with coins dated between 1610 and 1727.

The couple, who chose to remain anonymous, reached out to an auction company, Spink & Son. According to The Daily Mail, the company came by their home to look at the coins and they even traced the lineage. As it turns out, there was a family that lived in the home some 300 years previously.

The wealthy family from Hall, the Fernley-Maisters, were merchants in the area. Some members of the family even served in parliament in the early 1700s.

At first, the auction told the couple that they could expect about $231,000 for the gold coins. According to NBC New York, however, the coins ended up selling for $852,380 at auction.

According to NBC New York, the auctioneer, Gregory Edmund, said the sale was unique in a number of ways. He said it went well because of “the story of the coins, the method of discovery, and the rare opportunity to buy them at auction.”

One of the coins was even discovered to have a mint error. It should have had CAROLVS printed on it but instead, it was spelled CRAOLVS.

Maybe it’s time to do a renovation project.