• A resident of a southwest German town working on a construction project unearthed a stash of medieval coins minted around 1320 AD.
• The value of the roughly 1,600 coins recovered was deemed enough to have purchased 150 sheep at the time.
• The coins span multiple mints through Germany, Switzerland, and France.

While laying down underground piping near a swimming pool in May, Claus Völker, a resident of German municipality Glottertal, found “small metal plates” in the earth as he was beginning his work, according to a translated statement from the State Office for Monument Preservation from the Stuttgart regional council.

Archaeologists descended on the site the same day, quickly uncovering roughly 1,000 coins. The next day, rain turned…