“Treasure pot”: thousands of medieval coins were found in Romania. PHOTO
Romanian amateur archaeologists discovered a medieval treasure – 4,872 coins in a pot, as well as three silver plates buried in a forest. The coins were issued between 1500 and 1550, most of them during the reign of King Vladislav II, according to Live Science. The ancient money was found by Raul Vlad Suta together with two friends when they were resting in the forest. “I received a short but stable signal (on the metal detector), grabbed the shovel. I noticed a small silver coin, as if it had been taken out of my pocket. A few more coins were found at a shallow depth,” Raul said on Facebook. Read also: A pendant with the oldest mention of the Scandinavian god Odin was found in Denmark. PHOTO Photo: Raul Vlad Souta The man admits that the find brought “tears of joy” to the group. “Such a discovery brings wonderful feelings… This is the dream of every lover of history and finds. We are waiting for the conclusions of experts regarding the exact identification of coins, their inventory and restoration,” added the treasure hunter. Read also: They tried to smuggle 18 medieval coins to Poland. The “Treasure Pot” was buried in a Romanian forest. The treasure together with the ceramic pot weighs almost 4.5 kilograms. In total, the researchers found: about 4,868 Hungarian denars, most of which are very thin and glued together; 3 silver plates of approximately 30 grams each; 4 unidentified coins. In total, treasure hunters found more than 4,000 coins. Treasure hunters handed over their loot to the city hall of the city of Nozhorid in western Romania, as required by law. According to Romanian law, metal detectors can receive 30-45% of the officially determined value of the treasure. Currently, it is not known who buried the money in the forest and why. The gross weight of the find reaches 4.5 kilograms. We will remind you that earlier they tried to export medieval weapons from Zaporizhzhia to the USA as spare parts for agricultural machinery. In the Kirovohrad region, a man tried to sell a treasure with a unique ornament of the III century. And in the Kyiv region, the police exposed a couple who were engaged in smuggling coins from the times of the Roman Empire and the Crimean Khanate. Read also: One day in the life of a medieval knight and his family
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