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Pensioner hiding £75,000 coin collection

A rare collection of coins was hidden by seventy-two-year-old John Cross of Canterbury. Experts say it's worth £75,000 and contains some really rare coins. The treasure was only discovered after the pensioner's death. He was living alone in a caravan.

19. 9. 2014

Sep 19, 2014 For a million dollar treasure 40 thousand

They found silver coins worth CZK 1.5 million, but they only received a CZK 20 000 reward from the regional authority. Zdeněk Matějka and his colleague discovered the treasure near Hrušovany nad Jevišovkou. They were expecting a higher find.

The Great Danish Golden Treasure

The 1500-year-old pre-Viking find is one of Denmark's most important gold treasures. It contains more than 20 rare items, making it a major find in Danish history.

4. 9. 2017

4 Sep 2017 Roudnice Coin Treasure

The depot of 1310 coins was discovered four years ago by a metal detectorist Miroslav Bartoš and two friends. The container with the money was buried in a field near Roudnice nad Labem. The coins date back to the 15th century.

Archaeologists find one of the largest metal sets of the Bronze Age

Four similarly arranged Late Bronze Age treasures were discovered near Gannat in central France. The assemblages contain hundreds of bronze artefacts; this is by far the largest hoard of Bronze Age metal objects ever discovered in France. It has also become one of the richest discoveries in the whole of Europe...

23. 8. 1997

23 Aug 1997 Treasure of Fuchsenhof

He searched the field for weapons from the Second World War and discovered a depot that intrigued historians and numismatists from all over Europe. The Fuchsenhof treasure was in a metal container. It contained thousands of coins, jewels and two silver bars.

19. 8. 2014

19 Aug 2014 Workers find gold treasure, buy cars and motorbikes

French workers discovered 16 gold bars and 600 gold American $20 coins in glass containers underground. But they concealed the discovery. They bought new cars and motorcycles. They were facing criminal charges.

18. 8. 1923

18 Aug 1923 Přerov Treasure

Half a metre below the floor of the inn in Přerov was a hidden treasure, which was found in 1923. it contained 2400 coins from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This rare hoard is mentioned, for example, in the book Witnesses of the Times.

17. 8. 2007

17 Aug 2007 Someone stole part of the treasure

Fourteen years ago an unknown thief stole part of the so-called Běhařov treasure from the Klatovy museum. It consisted of 1,099 coins, 330 South German pfennigs from the twelfth century were lost. The museum estimated their value at 480,000 crowns.

12. 8. 2011

12 Aug 2011 Medieval treasure at Brandy Castle

Coins and other objects dating from the period before Jan Žižka were discovered by archaeologists ten years ago in an abandoned castle in Brandýs nad Orlicí. Specifically, they found eleven coins from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

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