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The Środa Treasure

Pawned ~1348 · found 1985 to 88, Środa Śląska, Poland
RECOVERED
Evidence status: Historical tradition. no documented source (historical tradition); legal status unknown (manual verification recommended). This account is presented as historical tradition, not verified fact. Manual verification recommended. Repository evidence: 0 sources · 0 timeline events · 0 media items · legal unknown · view on the Map Evidence on file: historical tradition

The Środa Treasure: still unexplained.

A royal crown and medieval gold, among the most valuable hoards ever found

The law of this ground: Recovered to the National Museum in Wrocław.
The subject
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The manifest
A royal crown and medieval gold, among the most valuable hoards ever found
The account

Demolition crews renovating an old Polish town turned up, in the rubble, a king's ransom: gold florins, jewelled rings, and a woman's crown believed to have belonged to an empress, regalia pawned to the town's financiers by Charles IV himself. Some pieces were reportedly pocketed before the rest was saved. What remains is one of Europe's great medieval finds.

How it was found
  • During building renovations in Sroda Slaska, Poland, in the late 1980s, workers found a medieval royal treasure, a golden crown and jewels, hidden in the walls and cellars and forgotten for centuries.
What the record holds

What remains open

  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.
What we know, and what we don't
Established

No documentary claim is yet established. The account rests on tradition.

Still open
  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.
The evidence room

No documentary or visual exhibits have been located yet. The trail below and the open leads are where this dossier grows next — every exhibit that enters here carries a source.

Where the trail points now
  • Search Library of Congress + DPLA (IIIF) for period cartography of the site.
  • Run Chronicling America for dated newspaper mentions.
  • Query NARA for archival records tied to the site.

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