The coins were collected by Paul Narce, who lived in a small village in south-west France until his death in 2024, according to Beaussant Lefèvre and Associates.

The notary found 10 packages that each contained 172 gold 20 franc coins. Some of the coins in the collection were from the Kingdom of Macedonia, dating to 336-323 BC.

From merchants to ironmongers – the people of Norwich once took matters into their own hands when the country ran out of coins. In the 1790s, when Britain was at war with France, the price of copper ...