老年金属探测器必须偿还103,000英镑,否则将因出售稀有维京硬币而入狱。 Elder metal detectorist must repay £103,000 or face jail for selling rare Viking coins.

Roger Pilling是一名77岁的金属探测器,他必须偿还103,000英镑,或因试图向一名卧底军官出售价值766,000英镑的44枚罕见的九世纪盎格鲁-撒克逊硬币而被判有罪,否则将面临额外的监禁。 Roger Pilling, a 77-year-old metal detectorist, must repay £103,000 or face additional jail time after being convicted of trying to sell 44 rare 9th-century Anglo-Saxon coins worth £766,000 to an undercover officer. 据信被维京人埋葬的硬币包括两枚独有的双头硬币。 The coins, believed buried by a Viking, include two unique two-headed coins. 2023年,Pilling和共同被告Craig Best因犯罪被判处五年两个月监禁。 Pilling and co-defendant Craig Best were jailed for five years and two months in 2023 for the crime.