Cache of gold coins, other treasures found by Czech forest hikers – Country
Hikers in the Czech Republic discover lifetime hikers discover lifetime antique gold and other treasures worth nearly $500,000.
According to a Facebook post where the museum now owns the items, hikers stumbled upon jewellery and jewelry while hiking on the Podkrkonosà mountain earlier this year.
A small aluminum can and iron box covers the real treasure, but after hikers peek at the boat, they know they have discovered something special.
In the dirty and corrosive container, there are 598 gold coins, wrapped in black fabric, 10 metal bracelets, 16 metal snuff boxes, a comb, chain, chain, a wire bag and powder compact.
Yellow metal fragments found by hikers in the Czech Republic.
Handouts/Museums in East Bohemia
Local media reported that the coin alone is worth 7.5 million Czech crowns, about 470,000 CAD.
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Nowak said the coins appear to be “hidden on the ground for more than a hundred years”, and their history dates back to the 1808-early 19th century.
Coins, snuff boxes and bracelets.
Handouts/Museums in East Bohemia
He said the historical value of the treasure is priceless.
Novak said in a Facebook post that valuable objects are often buried for custody and that the owner intends to return to them. However, in this case, there are some theories that in the case of Nazi Germany annexing the region in the 1930s, they might have been hidden, or perhaps by the Nazis themselves at the end of World War II.
Two containers and black fabric are used to wrap coins.
Handouts/Museums in East Bohemia
Coin expert Vojtěch Ch Brádle pointed out that many coins were marked from 1808 to 1915. They originated from the Austro-Hungarian Empire when Franz Joseph I.
“I found that these coins were not heading to us from the Vienna Mint, but to the Balkans,” he said. “After the collapse of the monarchy, they were minted in the Serbs, Croats and Slovenians at the time, marks, so-called anti-marks.”
According to popular science, some coins were traced back to Serbia in the 1920s and 1930s, while others came from Türkiye, Romania, Italy, Russia, France and Belgium.
Now, research, sorting and preserving rare findings, and work is being done to determine the origin and value of other objects and jewelry.
As for hikers, Czech law stipulates that they receive a fee of 10% of the total value of their income.
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