Museum in the money with gold coin hoard

Museum in the money with gold coin hoard

A rare Iron Age coin hoard is on its way to St Neots Museum after a last-minute fundraising appeal secured £22,000 in grants and donations.

The museum, in New Street, will make its biggest-ever purchase when 68 gold coins – discovered by a metal detector in Kimbolton in October 2010 – arrive next year.

The British Museum in London had given the museum’s curator Liz Davies a deadline of the end of July to raise the £22,000 purchase price before the coins were sold on the open market.

After launching an appeal at the start of July, the museum landed £11,000 from the V&A Museum Purchase Grant Fund and a string of donations from residents and community groups.

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