The world's largest ever hoard of Iron Age coins has been bought from the Queen by the island of Jersey for £4 million using funds retrieved from criminals.

The Le Câtillon II hoard containing nearly 70,000 Celtic coins was discovered on Jersey in 2012 by two amateur metal detectorists who had spent three decades combing a single field.

The two friends, Reg Mead and Richard Miles, initially received a tip-off in the 1980s from a woman who said she had spotted something that looked like silver buttons.

They eventually came across a clump of coins so large that they immediately called Jersey Heritage, the professional museum body on the island.

The 69,347 coins were found under a hedge in a mound of clay...

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