Hikers stumble over a pile gold coins, ignite a historic hunt

At the beginning of February, two walks in the skirts of the Krkonose mountains in the Czech Republic walked in early February when he saw something bright from the stone wall. It took out the things that can be aluminum, looked inside and found a small fortune.

There was a treasure of 598 gold coins inside and wrapped in columns neatly and black fabric, said, then Miroslav Novak, head of the Archaeological Department of the East Bohemia Museum.

A few meters, wisdoms opened a second cache: gold items, 16 snuffbox, 10 bracelets, a metal box with a comb with a small key and a small key and a small button.

The discovery of the treasure worth $ 680,000 has opened a search of a search between historians and amateur micers to understand who can hide wealth.

“What is an exceptional situation in this situation,” said Dr. Novak.

The gold coins estimated about 7.5 million Czech blind or about $ 340,000. Other items, if they are solid gold and are simply golden, it can be worth $ 340,000.

But he really interested, he said he recently had the buried of the items.

Archaeological discoveries are very common in the region, and many of the most bronze age or medieval, the latest coins of this collection have been hiding in about the last century since 1921.

In this relative agreement, the researchers offer a leader against researchers who think tantalizat and watch the owner of the treasure through archival studies, and thinking that they could solve the secret to why it hides.

“Someone may be able to rob a jewelry store of one and rob something something and cause something to happen to something.

There are already a stream of sustainable proposals and several conspiracy theories – about who the owner may be.

Was it a soldier back from war? A merchant fleeing from the area during the conflict? Or is a nearby family of a nearby family?

Coins are perhaps the best – but the most confusing – tips.

None of the money spreading in the area in which it was detected. About half of the coins are from Western European countries, including France and Belgium. The rest include the world’s regions, including the Balkans, Ottoman Empire, Russia, Tunisia and other parts of Africa.

The Balkan coins have drilled holes, most folk clothing or are used to decorate the headlines or necklace, which are part of wedding dresses or necklaces. Novak said.

Online, if some were a guards in the war camp in the Golden War Camp, others were convinced that others were hiding by the local dentist.

Experts of the museum and other historians viewed the deputies of the region for disclosures. Bohemia, what is the Czech Republic today, after 1938, witnessed the giant waves of migration and IDPs.

Before the Second World War, About 120,000 Jewish people According to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, in 1938, Germany lived in Eastern Czech Republic and Moravia, occupied in 1938. About 26,000 Jews fled the area before 1941 and then deported around 82,000.

Other groups also fled during the occupation of Germany, Martin, Jan Evangelista University in the Czech Republic, the associate professor, he said. According to him, 200,000 people moved, including many Czech.

After the war, in 1945, three million German, where he is sinful for war and Nazi crimes, ran or deported from the area.

“Perhaps a person ended in a concentration camp, or maybe it was a German who could not return to get it,” said Dr. Novak.

At the end of the war, currently the Czech Republic absorbed 1.7 million refugees from Europe, including Belgium, Estonia, France, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Spain and the Balkans. Many came to carry all their goods.

“The problem is that there are many opportunities,” said Dr. “Central Europe has been swept by a large number of people in different directions over the years, so something could happen.”

Personal items found in coins, including the cannabis, including coins, can be key to solving the mystery. Casting, both men and women have a mixture of an ingredients used and how many substances have been entered, not a man, but not a man, but not a man, said.

The museum began to wash the objects of carvings or other signs, but so far a few instructs. Two of the Snuff Box still have not yet been opened.

“We will see if the last two help us help us,” said Dr. Novak.