Twenty four kilograms of coins dating from the 18th century were found in a private residence in Hai Phong City.
The coins were given to the City Museum this week, said Do Xuan Trung, deputy director of the museum.
Nguyen Van Bay was busy with renovation work of a small wooden pier on a pond outside his house in Quoc Tuan Commune, Lao district, when he found ancient coins.
Trung said that after the cleaning and sorting, they found that some coins were minted during the reign of Qianlong of China, while others were produced by the rebellious peasants of Vietnam in the 18th century.
coins were packed in a jar in colorful pottery and hidden in the pond. Inside the vessel were also zinc bronze doubloons that have taken a dark color over the years. The family
Bay was honored by the Museum for their discovery and their willingness to have it delivered to the museum.
Trung said the city museum has a vast collection of ancient coins, but to date no archaeologist had ever made a discovery of this entity. The ancient treasures are gathering dust in the museum for lack of health experts. The coins are likely to have recently discovered a similar fate.
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