A Briton has just become perhaps the luckiest man in the world after he found a hoard of 158 gold coins worth roughly 100,000 pounds sterling or a whopping $156,000 using his newly-bought metal detector.

In a story released by St. Albans & Harpenden Review, Wesley Carrington discovered the hoard of precious ancient Roman solidus after just 20 minutes of using his metal detector on a field near St. Albans in Hertfordshire, England last October.

Carrington's machine detected a silver spoon and a half penny in its first two beeps but he didn't know what he was going to find next.

The third time his detector beeped, Carrington burrowed seven inches down to discover a gold-plated coin with a Roman figure inscribed on it. Carrington spent the succeeding hours roving his detector over the field and found 55 coins on the first day.

He then returned to the site with a team of expert and collected 104 additional coins, making it the largest hoard of Roman gold coins ever discovered in England.

Julian Watters, the finds liaison officer for Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire, said the likelihood of discovering Roman gold coins of this volume is very much difficult to grasp.

"I've been in the job for ten years and it is certainly the most spectacular find," Watters told The Daily Mail. "Just to put it in context, I had only previously seen four Roman gold coins out of 50,000 finds."

Moreover, Carrington only used an ordinary type of metal detector: Garrett Ace 150 detector, which is described as an ideal machine for parent-child expedition and someone interested in exploring a potential hobby, according to an online vendor of this specific type of detector.

However, Carrington's success should not be a surprise because St. Albans is situated in the area that boasts rich Roman historical artifacts.

The Daily Mail reported that all 158 coins will be surrendered to the British Museum, which will conduct an official appraisal. Carrington and the owner of the lot where the coins were discovered will have a 50-50 split of the proceeds.

Carrington has now become a member of a metal detecting club ever since his mind-boggling finds, though he hasn't found something valuable below since October.