The finding of a Gold and jewel treasure buried on the slope of a mountain before the Nazi invasion It was qualified as one of the most exceptional in the modern history of the European country.
A group of hikers found a treasure of 7 kilograms with a value of More than 330 thousand dollars After taking a shortcut on the wooded slopes of the podkrkonosí mountains, in the northeast of the Czech Republic.
The discovery includes hundreds of currencies, ornate jewels, pitilleras and a delicately woven silver bag, lists the Daily Mail.
MIROSLAV NOVAK, Chief of Archeology of the Eastern Bohemia Museumhe explained: “They called me to tell me that a person who had found something came to see me. when he opened it, I stayed with the fallen jaw.”
The men first found an aluminum can, part of which stood out from the surface, and a meter of it a iron box
“The can contained 598 coinsdivided into 11 columns, each of them wrapped in black fabric. The metal box contained a total of 16 boxes of shame, 10 bracelets, a wire bag, a comb, a chain and a polvera. All of the golden material, “he expands.
In addition, he assured that “without a doubt the coins are solid gold”, but that the rest must analyze, which valued in total about 7.5 million Czech crowns (more than 330 thousand US dollars).
Anyway, he remarked that “The historical value of the treasure, however, is incalculable.”
Although the discovery occurred last February, those responsible for the museum only now made the information public.
The specialists are now trying to determine how the treasure ended up buried on the slope of the mountain. “To store valuable objects on the ground in the form of treasures, Lcalled deposits were a common practice since prehistoric times“Nowak said.
And he added that at first the religious movements were more common, then it was of saved goods in uncertain times with the intention of later looking for them.
A theory is that the treasure could have been hidden after Nazi Germany attached the parts of the country collectively known as the south ones, back in 1938.
After the Munich agreement of September 29 of that year, the majority of the Jews and 200,000 Czechs moved to the interior of the country to escape the persecution provided in the territories attached by Hitler, historians speculate.
Another hypothesis speaks that there could be belonged to Germans who were expelled by the communists of Stalin at the end of the war.
He Museum Director, Petr Grulichhe said in this regard: “It is difficult to say if it is the gold of a Czech who had to leave the territory occupied after the Nazi invasion of 1938, of the gold of a German who was afraid to be displaced after 1945 or of the Jewish gold.”
Also They could be stolen objects of an antique store, but they do not incline to that option.
He Numismatico Vojtěch Brádle He also talked about the fabulous finding: “The treasure was hidden on the ground for a maximum of just over a hundred years. According to the stamped dates, it contains coins from 1808 to 1915”.
In addition, he pointed out with his wisdom: “This is Austria-Hungary and Francisco José I. I learned that these coins did not travel from the Casa de la Moneda de Vienna to us, but to the Balkans. And there, after the collapse of the monarchy, in the then kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovens, marks were coined, the calls. 1930 “.
I also trust that they know that The coins were in Serbia at some point between 1920 and 1930but that do not know how or when they arrived in Eastern Bohemia.
