April 1, 2013 Carpenters discovered silver tolars

A surprise also awaited the carpenters who worked on a timbered building in Úpice in the Trutnov region eight years ago in April. Carpenters found several silver tolars on a seventeenth-century building. Archaeologists immediately set out for the site.

The six silver tolars on the carpenter fell out as they repaired the beams. The coins were in the filling between them. Experts from the National Monuments Institute and the Trutnov Museum immediately went to the house. The owner of the carpentry company TES 98, Martin Zeman, revealed at the time that the coins were wrapped in sheep's wool, which was also wrapped in fabric.

"It was a moment of tension. I didn't know what the roll was hiding. As coins spilled into my hand, it was clear to me that I had found an age-old treasure. And I was very happy about it. Such a thing does not work every day. I immediately informed the owner of Dřevěnka, who is the city. They already know about the find at the Josef Memorial Institute. Of course, we will hand over the coins, "said Zeman at the time, who discovered the coins with his colleagues.

The tolars were well preserved and the experts could easily determine what the specific excavations were. "These are coins from the reigns of two monarchs, Leopold I and Charles VI. The oldest tolar is from 1667, the youngest from 1729, "said Ondřej Tůma, an archaeologist from the Trutnov Museum.

"It is interesting that these are actually coins from the reign of two monarchs. So that Leopold I., Charles VI. The owner obviously wanted to disguise the treasure when I say it in quotes. It is also interesting why the former inhabitants of the wooden house stored six coins in this way. Maybe also in order to monetize them because of the metal from which they are made, "Tůma commented on the finding from the wooden log house at the time.

The discovery of tolars was a truly significant event for the town of Úpice, which also deserved a record in the local chronicle. At the time when the craftsmen started building, Dřevěnka was already a national cultural monument. The carpenters also took part in the renovation of a historically valuable house from the sixteenth century in Vrchlabí. They used traditional technologies in the reconstruction of the attacked beams.

Carpenters are therefore used to finding some old objects from time to time. In addition to tolars, for example, they came across various blacksmith products.

Sources: www.denik.cz, www.ct24.cz, www.upice.cz