King Knut Eriksson, the 12th-century ruler referenced on many of the coins from the hoard.Swedish Hoard....................not Greta.............
My best guess? He walks away with worms.
I collect ancient coins and have come across my share of medieval ones. They made them wafer thin, you feel like they should roll up under a little bit of stress but they hold up. I was not familiar with the bishop types, pretty interesting.
King Knut Eriksson, the 12th-century ruler referenced on many of the coins from the hoard.I’m sure they will offer him a fair price.
Sounds like a wager. I could beat those coins into fish-catching spoons.
Somebody tell the Oak Island guys the treasure has been found.
He will probably be fined for digging up worms.
seek. shovel. shut up.
he will get far too little for his hoard.
“We do not yet know exactly how many coins there are, but I believe it could be upward of 20,000.”
Dubious at best...
Some of the metal work on the jewelry and baubles is really impressive, tho.
He should have kept his mouth shut. He will get some compensation but will get low balled.
I was doing the same thing and you’ll guess what I found. The Napoleonic Crown Jewels! Buried right in my back yard!
All kidding aside, I’ve told this story before. When I was in the Army in Germany our Roman Catholic chaplain was a local German priest. He had spent the war in Dachau for opposition to Nazis. He had been and was again chaplain to the Brothers of Abbey Grussau, now dissolved. The entire membership was imprisoned in Dachau by the Nazis.
After the war, the Russians used the Abbey, which is now in Poland, as headquarters for a tank division. The chaplain met with the local American military governor, a General George S. Patton. He told me that he thought Patton was cultured and educated. There was a local disused Catholic cathedral in Bad Wimpfen, since that area in Schwabenland had gone Protestant after the Thirty Years War (1618-1648). He gave the Cathedral and grounds to the survivors of the Abbey.
The area had been occupied by the Romans and was the eastern edge of the old Roman Empire. There were still some scattered Roman ruins in Bad Wimpfen. While the brothers were gardening and maintaining the grounds, they kept finding hoards of Roman coins. Father Andreas simply tossed them in the center drawer of his heavy desk. He showed me his hoard of gold and silver coins, but I wished he hadn’t. I never told anyone about the hoard for 40 years. I never had designs on it, but I was afraid of what might happen if it was common knowledge. I was especially thinking about certain GIs I knew.
Abbey Grussau is no more. The last survivor is gone to his reward, the Cathedral, lovingly restored by U.S. Army engineers out of Heilbronn using Army equipment (with General Patton’s blessing) has been taken over by the local Baden-Wurtenburg Land government, for the people, doncha know.
But did the fisherman find any worms?