(MTI) - "These gold coins are traces of our shared European history," Miklos Rethelyi said in his address. Daniel Krajcer, the Slovak culture minister, said at the opening ceremony that "there may be issues between Hungary and Slovakia over which we do not always see eye to eye, but the topics that connect us are far more numerous. It is not just a shared past, but a shared Central European future as well."
The coins, the largest post-medieval gold find in Central Europe, were discovered in a copper cauldron under the floor of a historic building in Kosice back in 1935. The collection now belongs to the Museum of Eastern Slovakia.
The oldest pieces, gold florins of Hungarian King Sigismund, were made between 1402-1404, while the youngest ones are ducats coined in 1679 under Austria's Leopold I. The treasure also includes three rare memorial coins and a Renaissance chain which weighs 590 grams and measures over 2 metres, archaeologists of the museum told reporters.
The composition of the collection could be considered typical of a fortune in post-medieval times, they added.
The exhibition will remain open until March 20.
