Mystery Unearthed: Ancient Ceramic Pot in Polish Forest Reveals Hundreds of Enigmatic Medieval Coins
Discovering The Medieval Coin Hoard In A Forest Near Bochnia, Poland
According to Poland-24, the coin hoard was originally found in April 2025 by brothers Wojciech and Marek Budzyn, members of the Bochnia Treasure Hunters’ Association STATER. The brothers were searching for traces of a medieval trade route when their metal detector started to ping.
Bocheńskie Stowarzyszenie STATER/FacebookWojciech and Marek Budzyn with the coin hoard.
“The first signal from our metal detector was very weak — almost unnoticeable — but when we checked again with another device, we realized there might be something worth digging for,” Wojciech Budzyn recalled.
The brothers dug into the dirt and, about a foot down, they unearthed a small clay pot. Inside the pot were silver denarii, clearly visible through the dirt clogging up the vessel.
Since the initial discovery of the hoard, researchers at AGH University in Kraków have been able to fully study the coins. They found that the clay pot contained 622 coins that were likely buried sometime in the 15th century.
There were 592 silver denarii, minted during the reign of Casimir IV Jagiellon, the king of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania who ruled from 1447 until 1492, 26 silver half-groschen in two different sizes, and four gold ducats that were minted during the reign of Sigismund of Luxembourg, the Holy Roman Emperor and King of Hungary and Bohemia from 1387 to 1437.
The researchers also found that the gold ducats had been wrapped in linen, tied with string, and intentionally placed beneath the silver coins.
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