Notices of recent Discoveries of Coins

In the month of November last, William Garrick, wight at Abernethy, in Perthshire, while engaged in lowering the clay floor of one of the rooms of his house, came upon an earthenware vessel filled with coins. The vessel was broken to fragments by the spade or other implement used in digging. The coins were immediately secured by Garrick and his assistant, James Honeyman. The news of the discovery having spread abroad, one or two gentlemen from Newburgh hastened to Abernethy, and secured specimens of most of the coins found. A notice of the discovery having afterwards appeared in the local newspapers, it thus came to the knowledge of Her Majesty's Kemeinbrancer, who immediately instructed Mr M'Lean, the procurator-fiscal at Perth (since deceased), to recover and transmit the treasure-trove to Exchequer

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