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Leicester teenager finds 1000 year old coin

A Leicester school girl has has stumbled upon a coin thought to be around 1000 years old in her school playing field.

Vilte - who goes to the Winstantley School in Braunstone - discovered the coin dates back to the time of William the Conqueror.

It's thought it could have been dropped by a worker heading across the Fosse Way hundreds of years ago.

Vilte and her headteacher Dave Bennett tell Ady Dayman how she found the coin, and what will happen to it next.

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