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Fight to save King Alfred’s rare coins By George Welch A MUSEUM is bidding to preserve a Viking treasure hoard – including rare King Alfred coins – worth £1.35m. Known as the ‘Watlington Hoard’, the fi nd was the fi rst large Viking hoard discovered in Oxfordshire. It contains more than 200 AngloSaxon coins, including many rare coins of Wantage-born Alfred the Great, King of Wessex (871-899), and his less well-known contemporary, King Ceolwulf II of Mercia (874-879). The hoard, which is not particularly large but includes seven items of jewellery and 15 ingots (bars of silver), was discovered on private land near Watlington by metal detectorist James Mather in October last year. The treasure is currently held at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, which is trying to raise the funds to

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