SECRET TREASURE

Waipawa Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue 148, 11 September 1925, Page 1 (Supplement)

SECRET TREASURE

Curiosity was recently aroused by the discovery that rare coins were filtering through to Paris and America in numbers so large that they suggested that a considerable find had been made. Inquiries were mkide, an.d it is now believed that a great Army chest of coins was hidden about the year 88 B.C. This chest was found by peasants in a little Persian village. They kept the discovery secret for fear thtit the hoard

would be confiscated by the authorities and started to smuggle the coins out of the country. It is believed that the great bulk of this “treasure trove” is still in Persia. The actual scene of the discovery is being kept secret. This story recalls the discovery of a hoard of gold medallions by workmen near Arras, France, some time ago. The men to the frontier with their treasure, but many medallions were found by the French Government. One of them, a gold medallion, showed the Roman Emperor Constantine entering London, with a figure representing the city kneeling at his feet.