March 8, 2008 A nine-year-old boy found 7,000 coins

An seven-year-old boy from the Swedish town of Lund found an incredible 7,000 medieval coins while he and his grandfather were looking for old cannonballs. He found a treasure from the thirteenth century. Its value was at least $ 250,000.

The coin was found by a boy near the Swedish town of Lund, from which he also comes. "My grandfather and I went looking for cannonballs when I came across a piece of metal. At first I thought it was grenade shrapnel. We shouted at Grandpa to come to me. Then we found more and more coins together, "said nine-year-old Alexander Granhof.

He and his grandfather eventually found 4,600 coins. The treasure was properly announced and archaeologists went to the site. Using metal detectors, the number of coins found was increased to seven thousand. Archaeologists at the time did not rule out that there may be other coins in the country. "It's something incredible," said Bernd Gerlach of Lund University.

Alexander and his grandfather Jens Granhof became interested in archeology after reading about a treasure buried somewhere in the province of Scania in southern Sweden. So they set out together to look for and enjoy a little adventure.

At that time, experts did not yet have an estimate of the value of the found substrate. However, according to the silver content of the coins, it was at least 250 thousand US dollars. "Coins were probably hidden sometime around the thirteenth century. The treasure was divided into two parts wrapped in cloth, "said Per Karsten, head of the local museum.

According to experts, these are coins that were apparently collected as church taxes. The owner then probably hid the money during the riots. The depot contains thousands of English coins with a high silver content and some other local, lesser-known mints.

We are also about the treasure here: https://www.lovecpokladu.cz/home/devitilety-chlapec-nalezl-tisice-stribrnych-minci-4602

The case of Oklahoma, USA, is also interesting, where only a seven-year-old boy found a treasure from the early twentieth century with a metal detector. He discovered a glass bottle with rings, diamonds, a pearl necklace, a gold watch and a gold bracelet with stones.

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Sources: www.taipeitimes.com, www.thelocal.se