Large Quantity of Old Silver Coins Unearthed Stockholm, Dee. 10
Stockholm some days ago, Harold Carlson, a young assistant city gardener, with one cut of his spade unearthed a treasure consisting of no less than some five hundred silver coins which were Duried in the earth about 150 years ago. Carlson was taking part in fan excavating job in one of the busiest thoroughfares of the capital when he made this sensational find. The coins dated from 1000 to 1718, many of them carrying the head of Charles XI1, Sweden's hero King. The casket, in which the money hai been deposited, had fallen to dus, but the coins were in good cond tion, and Carlson is now wondering how much the State Antiquarian will pay him for them, The finder, who knows his Swedish history well, has offered a plausible explanation why the money had been hidden. Ho thinks that it dates from the period when Sweden was impoverished by the European warfare of Charles XI, which caused his Minister Finance to requisition and forcibly retire all silver currency, replacing it by so-called "hard-time currency," Which was practically worthless. Someone who could not bear to part with his hard-earned hoard of silver coins buried them in the earth and was for some reason prevented from recovering them.
The find is by no means unique in Sweden. Every year the plough or spade of some lucky -farmer of labourer tarns up valuables hidden the ground. In this way many thousands of gold coins, buckles, brooches, rings, bracelets," trinkets and other ornaments, many of them of exquisite design and over 1,000) years old, have been found. rear number of these finds have thrown valuable light on Sweden's Nistor! They have been the means of proving that the Swedes of old carried on trade with distant countries, such as the Byzantine Empire, Russia and the Mediterranean States, as far back at least as two thousand years ago—Reuter,
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