Man finds gold coins – level 1

21-07-2015 07:00

This is news from northern Germany. A man finds 10 gold coins. Experts come to the site. They have a metal detector. They find 117 more coins.

The coins are French, Belgian, Italian and Austro-Hungarian. Someone buried them after the Second World War

All the coins are worth 45,000 euros. The man cannot keep the coins. They are in a museum now. People give the man 2.5 thousand euros.

Difficult words: site (a place), metal detector (a thing which makes a sound when it is close to something metal), bury (to put under the ground).

You can read the original story and watch the video in the Level 3 section.

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