Two explorers discovered in a forest of Czech Republic An aluminum box With almost 600 gold coins. As explained by the historians and archaeologists who subsequently analyzed the treasure, it would have been hidden among the weeds in 1939, After the invasion of the Nazi army to the then Czechoslovakia.
Often in European forests and fields dozens of objects are discovered to second World Warfrom weapons, ammunition to vestiges of structures that were disused. However, It is strange to find gold that was hidden from the Germans And that for more than 80 years it was invisible for the thousands of people who traveled by the Natural Reserve of the Podkrkonosí Mountains, to the limit with Poland.
The mountaineers found what seemed like a “can” on the side of the road, so they approached to see what it was and when completely removed The 7 kilos container They took the pleasant surprise. Inside the aluminum boat, which was embedded in a hole in the rock, There were coins divided into 11 columns and wrapped in black fabric. As they estimated, the value of that treasure would be around the 350,000 dollarsHowever, they delivered it to the Eastern Bohemia Museum.
This finding was conceived as the most exceptional in Czech modern history, so it resulted in a positive way for national cultural heritage. In addition to the 598 coins16 boxes of shame, ten bracelets, a bag of wire, a comb, a chain and a polvera were found. All gold.
He said in a statement published by the institution’s official account, Miroslav NovákHead of the archaeological department of the Museum of Eastern Bohemia Kroté: “The deposits were a common practice since prehistoric times. In the beginning, in religious movements they were more common; then they were properties stored in times of uncertainty with the intention of returning later by them. This finding is avoided by an unusually large weight of precious metal ”.
The coin of some of them was made between 1808 and 1915; There are also others that were in Yugoslaviabetween the 20s and 30s of the twentieth century. “It can be said that within the framework of national findings This composition is a very specific setsince most consists of coins of French origin and in addition to Austria-Hungary coins. It also includes Belgian and Ottoman coins. On the contrary, German and Czechoslovak coins are completely missing, ”said Novák.
“We know the coins were in Serbia at some point between 1920 and 1930, But we have no idea how or when they arrived in Eastern Bohemia, ”he added.
One of the theories about how the gold loot came to that place would go back to 1938, when the German army, after orders from Adolf Hitler, perpetrated the invasion of the so -called south o Ethnicity countries and speech German. First it was Austria and the second objective was the Czech Republic. The currencies would have come there in the midst of the Nazi persecution of the Jews or political dissidents. Or rather, another speculation refers to the subsequent arrival of the communists.
For one reason or another, the coins and the rest of the treasure, remains in the custody of the Eastern Bohemia Museumwhere it is expected that after the various laboratory analysis they can be exposed to the public.
