Thursday, 2pm - AN Iron Age coin depicting a warrior leader bearing an uncanny likeness to Grantham-born former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has been found just a few miles from her birth place.
Metal detectorist David Baker was searching a muddy field near Grantham when he uncovered the 2,000-year-old silver coin.
On one side was the head of a tribal leader or goddess that looked just like Margaret Thatcher.
On its reverse was a celtic armed war horse - imagery associated with Lady Thatcher during her 1980s pomp.
David, 40, said: "I'd gone out detecting for the day to get away from all the gloomy news about the economy.
"I dug down with my trowel when my detector went off and got quite excited when I saw the coin.
"But I couldn't believe it when I cleaned it up a bit and saw this image of Margaret Thatcher glaring up at at me.
"The head on the coin was the spitting image of her. It is so ironic that she was born close by to where I found it and that it is also from the Iron Age and she was the Iron Lady."
David took the coin to an expert who verified its age and told him it was from the Trinovantian tribe, which lived just north of the Thames.
Only ten of the coins, from about 40BC, have ever been found. It was discovered just a few inches down in a ploughed field where it had lain undiscovered for well over 2,000 years.
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