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. https://www.livescience.com/archaeo...in-german-church-where-martin-luther-preached
Fascinating article. I would love to see the contents of the hoard......it sounds like some high end denominations were in the stash. The stash includes a gold coin known as a "golden angel"; gold ducats and double ducats; silver coins known as thalers, half-thalers and quarter-thalers; and hundreds of pennies.
