The largest Anglo-Saxon treasure valued at 3 million pounds

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Independent experts, working with the British government, appreciated the Anglo-Saxon treasure found in Staffordshire, in a record amount - 3,285 million pounds, reports AFP.
Thus, Staffordshire treasure "as it has already dubbed the journalists was not only the largest such discovery, but also the most expensive. The hoard contains five kilograms of gold and 1.3 kilograms of silver.

More than half of thousands of items VII century were found in July unemployed amateur treasure hunters Terry Herbert through a metal detector. Now, more than three million pounds divide between him and Fred Johnson, a farmer on whose land the treasure found. The money is already collected museums in Birmingham and Stoke-on-Trent.

At the moment of the values found on display at London's British Museum, he had already published a book about the found treasure.