Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:A resident of a southwest German town working on a construction project unearthed a stash of medieval coins minted around 1320 AD. The value of the roughly 1,600 coins recovered was deemed enough to have purchased 150 sheep at the time. The next day, rain turned the soil into knee-deep mud, but the archaeologists armed themselves with metal detectors and still recovered approximately 600 additional metal coins. “You could have bought about 150 sheep with the coins,” Haasis-Berner said in the statement. The region the coins were found may hold additional hidden secrets based on the site’s past.