'I knew it was something cool,' Newfoundland metal detectorist Edward Hynes says of his record-breaking find: a 15th-century gold coin Henry VI quarter noble believed to be oldest English coin found in Canada

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'I knew it was something cool,' Newfoundland metal detectorist Edward Hynes says of his record-breaking find: a 15th-century gold coin Henry VI quarter noble believed to be oldest English coin found in Canada (archive.ph)

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and no mention of potential worth of the coin? Crack "journalism" there, as usual.

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