The biggest hoard of celtic silver coins ever found in Switzerland has been unearthed in the village of Füllinsdorf, in the northwestern canton of Basel Country.
Announcing the find on Thursday, the cantonal archaeological
department said it consisted of 293 silver coins, found scattered over
an area of about 50 square metres only a few centimetres below the
surface. However, cantonal archaeologist Reto Marti said they had
probably originally been buried together.
The coins are small: about a centimetre across and weighing barely two grams. It is not known what they would have been worth.
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