A metal-detector hobbyist found roughly 4.5 kilograms of silver coins near Sysmä church village on 3 September, in what Lahti Museums calls the largest late-Iron-Age coin hoard known from Finland, packed into two birch-bark containers and buried among stones about 45 centimetres down, and the coins have not yet been cleaned, separated or counted

Kalle Lappinen had written the first signal off as buried ore. He went back to it, and there were coins there too. The museum’s own announcement came with the qualifiers already attached: the coins have not been cleaned, separated or counted, and the exact weight, the number and the more precise dating all wait on further study. A second statement ten days later added a limit on the word Viking. The post A metal-detector hobbyist found roughly 4.5 kilograms of silver coins near Sysmä church vil