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Show :x:i:i;-x-:im:x-xx-m:x-x-;-xx-i-m-X'xX';xx-:-x:x-mxz Hidden Treasure Mute Reminder of Tragedy When Installing a bathroom In an old house in Vienna not long ago, an attic was disclosed above a closet which was supposed to reach clear to the roof. In it were the remnants of an old baker's oven and a wooden dough trough covered with grain sacks bearing the date 1G03. Beneath the trough were household effects that evidently evi-dently had belonged to a well-to-do middle-class family, such as linen garments, gar-ments, dishes, cups, jewelry, 330 gold coins and 1,1-13 silver coins. Among the former were several ducats.. The most recent of the coins were dated 1671, but most of them were far older. It seems practically certain that they represented the savings of a merchant who had hidden them there at the time of the Turkish invasion of 1G83. The most important find dating from the Thirteenth century was made in 1S7C, on the site of the oldest Jewish cemetery, at Krems on the Danube. These coins, which were discovered when extending a neighboring vineyard, vine-yard, consisted of thirty gold guilders, guild-ers, each weighing three and one-half grammes, from Florence, Hungary, Bohemia, Bo-hemia, Austria, Silesia nnd Lubeck. They were discovered at the side of a skeleton, nnd several other, coins were unearthed later near the same spot. It has been conjectured that they were buried dining the persecution of the Jews in ir! 19. Ncues Wiener Tagblatt. |