Image: The hoard had 816 coins, including several valuable gold and silver ones. (Image credit: U. Dräger, Halle)
‘Huge fortune’ from the 1600s, including gold and silver coins, found in German church where Martin Luther preached
By Laura Geggel
Four bags of money hidden around 1640 and worth “much more than a craftsman could earn in a year” have been found inside a statue at a Gothic church in Germany.
Restorers at a famous Gothic church in Germany have discovered a “huge fortune” that was hidden in the leg of a statue nearly 400 years ago. The treasure — four bags of coins from the 1600s — was likely concealed during the Thirty Years’ War, when Swedish soldiers frequently plundered the region.
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