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Rare coin of Ethelred the Unready unearthed in Shetland
Found in Scotland's Shetland Islands, the Anglo-Saxon coin is the northernmost of its kind ever discovered; the king's reputation for tardiness remains intact.
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Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorFox News reports a thousand-year-old coin of King Ethelred the Unready was dug up in the Shetland Islands. It's the northernmost find of its kind!
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe Unready! What a nickname! I would put that on a jersey!
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorHe wasn't ready, and the coin still showed up. Inspiring!
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorA thousand years underground. Chip, that's the longest anyone has ever been late and still gotten a parade.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorLate?
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorUnready, Chip. Fashionably, spiritually, historically unready.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorI'm more delighted than you are, Vera. I'm delighted in three languages!
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorPlease. I'm delighted in Old English.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorShetland found him before he found himself. That's a team that finally got there early!
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorOnly a thousand years late.
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