Seven hundred and forty four antique gold coins unearthed near Sathi junglesSubmitted by Senthil Kumar on 2010, July 26 In a remote village, near Sathyamangalam jungles treasures were found when people came upon an earthen pot filled with gold coins.
Seven hundred and forty four coins were found all total weighing about three hundred grams. They were found in the village of Kottamalam situated in the district of Erode*. The tribals discovering the pot got kind of awestruck. The coins are believed to be of the time of rein of Vijayanagar Empire, said to be five hundred years old.
It is a dream meeting with luck for the old widow of KottamalaMaadhiVeerayya. Maadhi and her granddaughters, who were clearing the thorny bushes near their house when they got hold of the earthen pot. It was her granddaughters Nagamma and Vinitha who noticed broken remains of the earthen pot in the bushes.
Curiosity took over and as they delved deeper, they got hold of coins which are smaller than a twenty five paisa coin. They called their grandmother, who dug deeper and fished out more coins. At first, they tried to hide the coins, but curious neighbors thronged their house and everyone started to dig the place for treasure hunt. Nine tribal families, by afternoon, found out as many as seven hundred coins, which they hid in their houses.
The village administrative officer somehow came to know about it and rushed to the spot. Police also came in after that and recovered the coins. Times of India has been reported by tahsildar, K Shanmugham, that they have recovered seven hundred and forty four coins in total. Police are probing deeper to find out whether more coins had been hidden by villagers.
All the coins are made from eighteen carat gold and said to be five hundred years year old, can be linked back to the Vijayanagar Empire which ruled between fourteenth to sixteenth century A. D.
The coins bear a symbol of a tiger on a fluttering flag on one side and on the other side a mangalasutra is inscribed.
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