In the 16th century, an attack from the Ottoman Empire may have prompted panicked Hungarians to bury a stash of valuable silver and gold coins. Source: https://www.livescience.com/ancient-gold-coins-discovered-hungary.html
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Lockdown Gardening in Britain Leads To Archaeological Discoveries
Gardeners in Hampshire, a county in southeast England, were weeding their yard in April when they found 63 gold coins and one silver coin from King Henry VIII’s reign in the 16th century, with four of the coins inscribed with the initials of the king’s wives Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour. From a report: The archaeological find was…
Ancient gold stash found in jug in Jerusalem
A jug of four gold coins was found during the construction of an elevator in Israel. Source: https://www.livescience.com/ancient-gold-coins-discovered-in-jerusalem.html
Stash of pure, 24-carat gold coins unearthed in Israel
All that protected this jar of gold was a nail and a good hiding spot. Source: https://www.livescience.com/gold-hoard-israel-archaelogy.html
After 10 Years, Hidden $1M Treasure Chest Finally Found
89-year-old Forrest Fenn had a secret, reports the Guardian. He’d hidden a treasure chest worth over $1 million somewhere in America’s Rocky Mountains: For more than a decade, he packed and repacked his treasure chest, sprinkling in gold dust and adding hundreds of rare gold coins and gold nuggets. Pre-Colombian animal figures went in, along with prehistoric mirrors of hammered gold,…