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'Huge fortune' from the 1600s, including gold and silver coins, found in German church where Martin Luther preached

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Four bags of coins were found in the leg of a statue at St. Andrew's Church in Eisleben , Germany .

They were hidden during the Thirty Years' War , when Swedish soldiers frequently plundered the region.

The hoard includes a gold coin known as a "golden angel"; silver coins known as thalers, half -thalers and quarter -thalers.

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