Govt okays EUR 91,000 reward for people who found Viking-era wealth deposits

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The Estonian government has approved the allocation of 91,300 euros to the National Heritage Board to pay rewards to the people who found two late Viking-era wealth deposits and a burial mound in the area of the village of Koue to the southeast of Tallinn in 2013 and 2014.

The first wealth deposit at Koue was discovered in May 2013 and the second last spring. The Koue burial mound was discovered in the summer of 2014.

According to Eerik Niiles Kross, owner of the Koue-Triigi manor, the first Koue find consisted of a couple of tens of coins and silver ornaments. The second Koue find, made up of almost one thousand coins, is one of the biggest ancient coin finds unearthed in Estonia, Kross told the media.

The government was originally scheduled to discuss the allocation of money for the rewards at its meeting on May 28 but the item was removed from the government's agenda on the proposal of the finance minister then, spokespeople for the government said.

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