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<\/p>\nWhen an English mother of two who had always dreamed of discovering a treasure dug up a chest during a beach clean-up, her wish came true.<\/p>\n
On March 20, after spending an hour with her litter grabbers and bucket, 38-year-old Jennie Fitzgerald <\/p>\n
of Norfolk noticed the wooden chest’s domed lid protruding from the sand between Cart Gap and Happisburgh.<\/p>\n
She dug with her hands till she pulled out the treasure, which was roughly the size of a shoebox and was padlocked.<\/p>\n
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Mother of two children, Darcey, six, and Harrison, nine, Jennie dragged the chest a mile and a half back along the coast to meet her forty-year-old husband, James, an IT consultant.<\/p>\n
The Norwich family found 108 coins inside the box when they removed the wood from the bottom while they were back at their caravan in Sea Palling.<\/p>\n
Jennie believes they are mostly medieval groats and some Victorian pence.<\/p>\n
Jennie remarked, \u2018I never imagined finding something like this.\u2019 \u2018This is beyond what I usually find on the beach, where I always have my eyes down, hoping to find a couple of coins.\u2019<\/p>\n
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Jennie, who is still in disbelief at her discovery, admitted that she hasn’t fully processed it and keeps pinching herself.<\/p>\n
\u2018It’s incredible\u2014a once-in-a-lifetime discovery,\u2019 she said. What are the odds of that happening? <\/p>\n
I’m incredibly lucky since I could have easily passed it by. I’m giddy with anticipation.<\/p>\n
\u2018At first, I was drawn in by this piece of wood’s shape in the sand. When I eventually pulled it out, I saw that it was a real pirate treasure chest.<\/p>\n
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The family attempted to open the enormous padlock with a screwdriver after wood started to come away from the base and coins started to fall out.<\/p>\n
In addition to the money, the treasure contained chunks of cut glass or gemstones, a signet ring, a large vintage key, a pocket watch, and a fob bearing the name \u2018Ernest\u2019 etched on it.<\/p>\n
The box, according to Jennie, a medical secretary, is constructed of wood and most likely iron, and it has a hidden lining that she believes is meant to be waterproof.<\/p>\n
At first, Jennie was concerned that she might have tampered with someone’s time capsule or the treasure-hunting game known as geocaching. <\/p>\n
But when her and her kids got home with the treasure, they brushed the toothbrush box on the kitchen table.<\/p>\n
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She believes it might be Victorian because the padlock has a marking on it that reads “VR” and features an image of a crown.<\/p>\n
After reporting the discovery to the local liaison officer, Jennie needs to notify the beach’s landowner and take the treasure box to a museum.<\/p>\n
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Jennie revealed, \u2018It’s a sturdy box with the padlock still in place\u2014someone clearly didn’t want us to get in.\u2019<\/p>\n
The family began to wonder about the history of the treasure and whose Ernest it belonged to because Jennie found it so fascinating. <\/p>\n