Library janitor or Indiana Jones?
Tanja Höls, a custodian at the Passau state library in Germany, stumbled upon a box complete of coins while on the job at the end week. Turns outside, those coins are thousands of years ancient and could be worth millions.
“The box itself was honestly unspectacular, it looked like a huge jewlery box, with lots of small drawers inside,” she told The Community.
When she told her bosses at the library, they were stunned. The library believes that the collection likely belonged to community prince-bishops, who hid the treasure in the library in the early 19th century to avoid paying taxes.
The gold and silver coins can be traced to ancient Rome, Greece and the Byzantine empire, according to the German Herald.
Höls, who had walked by the unassuming box many times before daring to open up, will be rewarded for her curiosity. A spokesman for the library told Der Spiegel that “she was very honest, a brilliant historian and a fantastic detective. We are certainly going to promote her to the curating side of the museum and we’re discussing a suitable reward for her.”
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