![]() ![]() ![]() November 2019: George Powell, 41, and Layton Davies, 54, found guilty of theft, conspiracy to conceal criminal property and conspiracy to convert criminal property at Worcester Crown Court after they failed to report their find and tried to sell the items. Pilling is arrested at his Lancashire home later. May 2019: Undercover police carry out a sting operation and arrest Best at a Durham hotel, where he believed he was meeting a contact of a potential buyer. These coins are believed to be from the same undeclared find in Leominster known as the Herefordshire Hoard. September 2018: Craig Best contacts a US professor who has a passion for ancient coins and tries to interest him in buying some of the 44 coins somehow acquired by Roger Pilling. ![]() June 2015: West Mercia Police recover 29 Anglo-Saxon coins from larger hoard that had been found at a farm in Leominster, Herefordshire, as part of Operation Helix. ![]()
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