亨利三世一分钱以创纪录的648,000英镑在Spink Auction售出

亨利三世（Henry III）的一分钱已被追溯到可能的13世纪所有者以648,000英镑的价格出售，以创造了一枚英国拥有的硬币的记录。

A 13th-Century Henry III gold penny has sold at auction for £648,000 to set a record for a single British-found coin.

13世纪的亨利三世金钱的拍卖售价为648,000英镑，为单个英国创始的硬币创造了纪录。

The coin is also now the most valuable English medieval coin sold at auction, say auctioneers Spink, who handled the £540,000 sale that rises to £648,000 with costs.

拍卖行Spink说，这枚硬币现在也是拍卖会上最有价值的英国中世纪硬币，他处理了540,000英镑的销售，售价为648,000英镑，费用为648,000英镑。

The coin was found last September in Devon by Michael Leigh-Mallory, an environmentalist. A former detectorist, Mr Malllory happened to have his machine on him and unearthed the single coin whilst working on a farm. It was the first gold coin he had ever found and its rarity and potential value were soon spotted when he posted about the discovery on Facebook.

硬币是去年9月在德文郡（Devon）的环保主义者迈克尔·利·马洛里（Michael Leigh-Mallory）发现的。马洛里（Mallory）曾是一名前侦探主义者，恰好在他的农场工作时发掘了他的机器，并在农场工作时发掘了单一硬币。这是他发现的第一枚黄金硬币，当他在Facebook上发布有关该发现时，很快就发现了它的稀有性和潜在价值。

After much digging, a large amount of information on the coin was unearthed.

经过大量的挖掘，发掘了有关硬币的大量信息。

It is a famous issue. The Henry III Gold Penny was minted from 1257 for around just one year. The coin was an attempt to reinstroduce gold coinage after more than 600 years of silver money.

这是一个著名的问题。亨利三世金钱从1257年开始铸造了大约一年。硬币是在经过600多年的银币后重新造成金币的尝试。

It was minted by the King’s goldsmith, William of Gloucester with gold from Africa. It was probably owned by John de Hyden, a Lord of Hemyock Manor, near where the coin was found. John paid the king 120 grams of gold to be excused serving in office and on a jury. He then served in the King’s Welsh Campaign of 1257 during which 37,000 of the new gold pennies were distributed.

它是由格洛斯特国王金匠威廉（William of Gloucester）铸造的，来自非洲的黄金。它可能由Hymyock Manor的主人John de Hyden拥有，附近发现了硬币。约翰向国王支付了120克的黄金，以在办公室和陪审团任职。然后，他在1257年的国王威尔士竞选活动中服役，在此期间分发了37,000个新的黄金便士。

Now, only eight are known to survive. Six of those are in institutional collections and are unlikely to ever sell.

现在，只有八个可以生存。其中六个是在机构收藏中，不太可能出售。

All this made the Spink sale an event of world significance in numismatics.

所有这些使Spink Sale在钱币学中成为世界意义的事件。

Last year the Chew Valley Horde of silver coins became the UK’s most valuable ever discovered treasure when it sold for £4.3 million.

去年，银币的咀嚼谷部落成为英国有史以来最有价值的宝藏，当时它以430万英镑的价格售出。

Such finds are protected by the Treasure Act. This find was unusual in that it was a single coin rather than a buried horde.

这样的发现受到《宝藏法》的保护。这个发现是不寻常的，因为它是单个硬币而不是埋葬的部落。

It went into the sale with a £400,000 estimate that was easily surpassed with reports of bidders online and on telephones around the world.

它以40万英镑的估计量进入了交易，在网上和全球电话上的竞标者的报道很容易超越。

Mr Leigh-Mallory, who is saving his portion of the proceeds of the sale towards the education of his two children, said: “How it has survived three-quarters of a millennium relatively unscathed is truly miraculous. Like every hobbyist who continues to dream, my wish that day came true, and I just happened to be the very fortunate one.”

利·马洛里（Leigh-Mallory）先生正在将出售收益的一部分用于对他的两个孩子的教育，他说：“它如何在相对毫发无损的千年相对千年的四分之三中幸存下来。就像每个继续梦想的业余爱好者一样，我那天我的愿望实现了，我恰好是幸运的人。”