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MYSTERY SURROUNDS BRACTEATE HOARD

Perhaps it’s a classic “who done it,” but a hoard of an estimated 100 to 150 silver medieval Silesian bracteates that appears to have been hidden intentionally was discovered in November in an old burgage lot in Szprotawa, Poland.

A burgage was a town rental property consisting of a house on a long and narrow piece of land situated on a narrow street frontage typically owned by

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