Out on his daily constitutional, a dog in Poland unexpectedly struck gold, or rather, silver. The dog was being taken for a walk by his owner near the city of Wałbrzych in southwestern Poland when he began digging the soil to get to the bottom of the something unusual his powerful olfactory senses detected. He was rewarded by a jugful of bracteate medieval coins, which are thin, single sided, and were used as currency in the Middle Ages in northern Europe, especially in Germany, Hungary and Poland.
Kajtuś the dog was probably disappointed by the find. But his owner immediately realized the worth of Kajtuś’s discovery and alerted the Wałbrzych branch of the Lower Silesia heritage protection office, who has since issued a report . The office dispatched a team, including archaeologists from the University of Wrocław, to investigate. They have termed the discovery of the recent 13th-century medieval coin find as the first such large discovery in more than a hundred years, reports the NFP.
