Archaeologists in Germany have unearthed a handful of 500-year-old gold coins during their excavations at the ruins of the Himmelpforten monastery, near the town of Wernigerode in Saxony-Anhalt state.
The medieval monastery, founded in 1253 and once home to Augustinian hermits, housed monks until the 16th century.
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