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Two men are now facing jail time for trying to illegally sell 44 coins worth approximately $960,000
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Two men are now facing jail time for trying to illegally sell 44 coins worth approximately $960,000
Undercover police caught men attempting illegal sale of cache that experts say helps transform view of Alfred the Great
Anglo-Saxon coins, taken from an undeclared Viking hoard, were touted to international collectors.
A jury has heard how the would-be seller of rare highly-valuable coins from a Viking hoard tried to tout them to an American expert and collector.
Undercover officers carried out a sting operation to stop a historically important Viking hoard of coins worth £766,000 being sold to an American…