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Considered the world’s biggest Ottoman treasure, the Beçin treasure trove was discovered in 2000 during excavations led by Professor Rahmi Hüseyin

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Ottoman trove cleaned with q-tips

MUĞLA – Anadolu Agency

Considered the world’s biggest Ottoman treasure, the Beçin treasure trove was discovered in 2000 during excavations led by Professor Rahmi Hüseyin

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The Beçin treasure trove, which was discovered in 2000 during excavations in Beçin, located in the Milas district of the western Muğla province, was first weighed on grocery scales while each coin was cleaned with q-tips.

The head of the excavations then, Professor Rahmi Hüseyin, who unearthed the trove of 48,848 Ottoman and 848 European coins, said they were very excited when they had found the trove in a structure called the “taxman house.” 

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