Treasure hunter Jeroen Mathijssen (44), born in Hoogkarspel, has found a coin treasure from the period 1300 – 1400 with a metal detector in a field in Rosmalen, North Brabant. This is reported by the ANP news agency. This concerns more than 350 medieval silver coins. There are very special specimens among them.
Mathijssen asked permission to search the field in Rosmalen. He already found some coins there, but in January 2022 he found the real treasure. He reported the find to the municipality of Den Bosch, to which Rosmalen belongs, and to the PAN, the organization that registers soil finds. Extensive research followed, which showed that it was one of the largest coin hoards from that period in the Netherlands.
According to the treasure hunter, a coin from Coevorden has been excavated. Such a coin has never been found in the entire world. Den Bosch will exhibit the coin treasure in the Heritage Center in that city.
Lottery
The coins were largely minted in Brabant, Gelre, Flanders, Holland and Liège. They may have been in the possession of a trader who hid his money in the ground, according to Mathijssen. “The chance of finding something like this is smaller than winning the lottery,” he told ANP. “That’s why I hardly look anymore since then, I’ll never make such a big find again.” Nothing can yet be said about the value of the medieval coins found.