120 silver coins found while digging pond
Some 120 silver coins with Arabic inscription were found in an earthen pot when labourers were digging a pond in the district's Khansama upazila on Tuesday.
The land belongs to Abdus Samad of Dhoneshahpara village.
Locals said Samad employed some labourers for digging a pond on his land a couple of days ago. During the digging, a worker found the pot. The landowner and the workers tried to hide the incident, but it went public yesterday morning.
Samad said there were 120 coins in the pot and each was weighing around 12.5 grams. Arabic letters were inscribed on both sides of the coins.
The 120 coins are 1.5kg in weight, he said.
Hearing the incident, curious people thronged the spot to have a glimpse of the coins and the pond.
“We heard such tales from our grandparents when we were small, but it's now reality when we heard about the incident," said Golam Rabbani, of Alakdihi village in the upazila.
Locals said the coins had already been shared among the landowner and the labourers.
Contacted, Shajebur Rahman, Khansama upazila nirbahi officer, said the valuables beneath the earth are a property of government. So, nobody but the government can take those.
An expert said the coins could be of the Sultani era ((1210-1576).
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