You're walking Fido and you see something by the curb... From the New Zealand Herald:
A solid gold one penny coin dating from the ninth century and valued by experts at €220,000 ($418,808) has been found by an Englishman walking his dog."It is quite simply the most important single coin find for a century. We fell off our chairs when we realised what it was," said numismatics specialist Richard Bishop, of the London auction house Spink.
The coin bore the effigy of Coenwulf, an Anglo-Saxon king who ruled Mercia between 796 and 821 AD. It has been authenticated by the British Museum and other specialists, meaning that it might make a record price when it is auctioned on October 6.