EAGLE-EYED gardener Trevor Pulleyn has unearthed a mini mystery - a tiny silver medallion celebrating the Royal Jubilee... Queen Victoria's golden jubilee.

Now he wants help from Evening Press readers as he digs around for the origins of the artefact from the 19th century.

"It's a tiny little thing," Trevor said. "I spotted it while I was digging over the garden - though it's so small I don't know how it caught my eye. Under a magnifying glass you can just work out the inscription, with the words Victoria Jubilee, the date, 1887, and a picture of Queen Victoria. "She's wearing a crown and not the headress you usually see her wearing in pictures or on coins.

"There is also an indentation in the back, so it might have been used as a decoration, stuck on to some commemorative memorabilia.

"I would love to know more about it. I'd like to know where it's from, if there are many of them about and how I could clean it up - and, of course, if it's worth anything!"

Trevor, who lives in the Village, Strensall, added: "I must have dug the garden up hundreds of times so it's ironic that a coin from Queen Victoria's jubilee should turn up in our Queen's jubilee year - in fact I found it just before the jubilee celebration weekend."

If you can help Trevor solve the mystery of the medallion, contact the Evening Press newsdesk on 01904 653051 or email reporters@ycp.co.uk

Updated: 11:45 Tuesday, July 30, 2002