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HEREFORDSHIRE HOARD COIN RECOVEREDJeff Rock passed along this BBC article about the recovery of a coin stolen from a Viking hoard. Thanks. -Editor 
A coin missing from a stolen Viking hoard has been discovered for sale in Croydon, London. George Powell and Layton Davies, from Wales, dug up more than 300 silver coins and gold jewellery in a Herefordshire field in 2015. If the metal detectorists had declared the hoard, they could have been millionaires, but instead they sold it for profit and were sent to prison. Ten years since the treasure was discovered, more than 230 coins are still missing and police investigations are ongoing. Police believe they are in the hands of organised crime gangs across the world and now one has been found on sale in London. Experts believed the coins were Anglo-Saxon and to have been hidden by Vikings. The hoard will soon take pride of place in the Hereford Museum and Art Gallery which is having a £22m restoration. After £776,250 was raised to bring them back to the county, they are set to go on public display in a purpose-built exhibition space. "We would love to have the missing pieces of this extraordinary hoard returned to their rightful place in Herefordshire," said Damian Etheraads, from Hereford Museum.
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