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POLISH HOARD HAS A PARIS CONNECTION

You could consider it being the medieval form of ransomware. The question being asked is why a hoard of silver Carolingian deniers has been discovered in Poland. Until the 118 coins were recently discovered in a farmer’s field only three such coins had ever been found within the borders of what is now modern Poland.

The first coins in the trove were encountered in a field near Biskupiec

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