Two tourists investigating the edge of the forest to the northeast of Podkrkonoště hora in the Czech Republic made an amazing discovery when they discovered a cash register worth over more £2.87 crore ($ 340,000), according to New York Post report.
The East Bohemia Museum, which has seized the finding since then, confirmed that Trove included 598 gold coins, pieces of jewelry and tobacco bags that weighed approximately £ 15 together.
It is assumed that the coins have been “hidden in the country for more than a hundred years” and date back to the period between 1808 and the early 19th century. Experts suggest that they were probably buried sometime after 1921. The collection includes a currency from France, Belgium, the Ottoman Empire and the former Austro-Hungary.
“When it (one of the tourists) opened it, my jaw dropped,” said Miroslav Novák, head of archeology in the museum.
The local media described this as a “very specific set”, noted that small signs on coins indicate that they were stamped for use in the former Yugoslavia, which existed from 1918 to its dissolution in 1992.
Although the discovery was carried out in February, the museum officials only published this information last week. “We will have to analyze the rest, but at the current price of precious metals, the value of the finding can start at 7.5 million (Czech) crowns ($ 340,000),” Novák added.
Experts are now working to uncover the origin of the buried treasure.
“Puting valuable objects in the country in the form of treasures, the so -called depot have been common practice since prehistoric times. Initially, religious movement was more frequent;
One prevailing theory suggests that the treasure could have been hidden by the retreat of the Nazi forces fleeing from the advancing Russian army at the end of World War II.
“It is difficult to say whether it is the gold of Czech who had to leave the occupied territory after the Nazi invasion from 1938 (OR) of the German gold, who after 1945 feared displacement,” said the museum director Petr Grulich. “It could also be stolen goods from the antique store, but we are not in favor of this option.”
As the investigation continues, two happy tourists have 10 % of the treasure value in accordance with the Czech law.
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