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.

“The discovery site and the composition of coins and objects suggest that they may originate from a burial mound that was placed under the church floor in the Middle Ages, between approximately 1200-1300,” Vemmestad said, adding that the needles may have been in the clothing of a corpse and that the pearl may have been part of a prayer wreath.

Despite discovering the artifacts when just a child, Fugelsnes had stored them in a box and only pulled them out last year.

“We were just children on a treasure hunt under the church. We didn’t realize how rare the coins were,” he recalled.

However, once he realized the importance of his “treasure,” in accordance with Norwegian law, Fugelsnes turned the coins over to the government to preserve. As Fox reported, “In