Kid Who Found Strange Coins Under Church in the 1960s Kept Them Hidden Until Months Ago – The Entire Country Will Want These on Display
Imagine wandering around with your friends at a church and stumbling upon a set of 800-year-old coins.
That is exactly the situation Jan Gunnar Fugelsnes found himself in when, in 1964, he and his friends found a set of coins in the floorboards on the Edøy Church in Norway, Fox News reported.
It was only in 2023 that Fugelsnes realized what he had in his possession. He not only found 14 coins, but also 3 fittings, 9 needles, and a pearl. County archaeologist for Møre og Romsdal, Carl-Fredrik Wahr-Hansen Vemmestad, said some of these artifacts date as far back as the 13th century.
Vemmestad noted only a handful of such coins still exist today.
