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synmirror: stumblng: 9-Year-Old Boy Finds $265,000 Medieval Treasure Trove he found 4.6K thirteenth century Scandinavian and English coins that had been buried in two clay urns at the time, he was on the site of the 1676 Battle of Lund in southern Sweden, looking for cannonballs archaeologists later found more coins on the site, bringing the total up to 7K it’s not clear from the story who, under Swedish law, owns the coins the boy found; the story does say that “there has been no announcement about a possible reward for the young man”; that rather implies that it’s not the boy who owns them; in that case, it’s probably the government that does the amusing sub-Banksian image above is from here ——

synmirror:

stumblng:

  • 9-Year-Old Boy Finds $265,000 Medieval Treasure Trove
  • he found 4.6K thirteenth century Scandinavian and English coins that had been buried in two clay urns
  • at the time, he was on the site of the 1676 Battle of Lund in southern Sweden, looking for cannonballs
  • archaeologists later found more coins on the site, bringing the total up to 7K
  • it’s not clear from the story who, under Swedish law, owns the coins the boy found; the story does say that “there has been no announcement about a possible reward for the young man”; that rather implies that it’s not the boy who owns them; in that case, it’s probably the government that does
  • the amusing sub-Banksian image above is from here
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