Workers Discover Hidden Chamber Full Of 300-Year-Old Polish Coins

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Arkie Pillar of the Community United States 2637 Posts	Posted 05/09/2020 7:32 pm A 300-year-old hidden stash of silver coins in a pottery jug has been found by workmen hired to replace a church's rotten floorboards. The discovery was made while work was being carried out on the Church of the Rosary of Our Lady in the village of Obisovce which is near Kosice in Slovakia. The coins date back to the early 1700s and most appear to have been left as donations by visitors from nearby towns. The church was reportedly popular with pilgrims during a period of an anti-Habsburg revolt that started in the 1680s, known as the Thokoly uprising. It was mainly centred around Hungarian refugees from the Ottoman territories that had settled in the region. The rebellion was put down by 1687 and historical records show that sometime between 1685 and 1687, the parish was taken over by a Polish priest who was blind in one eye, and who in the 1690s went blind completely. https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/wo...den-21848016 Report this Post to the Staff

Alpha2814 Pillar of the Community United States 2023 Posts	Posted 05/09/2020 8:32 pm Wow. Someone's going to need a /lot/ of Verdi-Care. Report this Post to the Staff
tdziemia Pillar of the Community United States 7960 Posts	Posted 05/09/2020 10:40 pm Neat story! I hope some of our Polish members will provide more details. It is unlikely that what was found were "Polish coins ... that date from the early 1700s" since none were minted then. Maybe I see some S monograms which could be older coins from the times of Sigismund III (until 1620s)? Edited by tdziemia 05/09/2020 10:56 pm Report this Post to the Staff
norantyki Valued Member 404 Posts	Posted 05/11/2020 07:18 am @tdziemia - ya, those look like the little billon solidi which were largely struck in the north (Riga, etc.) in the middle-late 17thc. Its interesting so see that they travelled so far in abundance - this would be expected of the silver pieces of good weight which would move around in trade, but these paper-thin billon coins are usually understood to have not travelled far beyond their place of origin (why detectorists find so many in the baltic states). Report this Post to the Staff
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