TOURIST FINDS MEDIEVAL SILVER COIN CACHE

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The E-Sylum: Volume 23, Number 43, October 25, 2020, Article 28

TOURIST FINDS MEDIEVAL SILVER COIN CACHE

A tourist visiting Trnava Slovakia discovered a hoard of medieval silver coins beneath an uprooted tree. Nice find. -Editor

A tourist found silver coins from the 13th and 14th centuries under an uprooted tree near Piešťany.

He has reported it to the Regional Monuments Board (KPÚ) in Trnava. Its workers found 147 middle-age silver coins after searching with a detector. The coins are mostly Wiener pfennigs but there are also Hungarian imitations of Wiener pfennigs that were minted in the years 1251 and 1330.

The coins were probably stored in a leather or fabric wrapper, Matúš Sládok of KPÚ Trnava opined, but there were no traces left of the wrapper.

An expert will now estimate the value of the discovery. The tourist who found the coins has asked for a finder’s fee.

To read the complete article, see:
Tourist finds ancient silver coins under an uprooted tree (https://spectator.sme.sk/c/22511965/tourist-finds-ancient-silver-coins-under-an-uprooted-tree.html)

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Wayne Homren, Editor

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