Pensioner uses stone as a doorstop for years

What is probably the largest piece of amber in the world is now part of a museum. However, it was previously used as a doorstop.

Bucharest – Your ancestors often leave you a lot of things that you have to clear out first. But sometimes there is a real treasure hidden underneath. Like in the case of two Italian women who found empty pasta packets full of Italian lire in their basement. A lady in Romania, on the other hand, recently discovered that her doorstop is actually made of amber and is worth a fortune.

Walker finds what is believed to be the largest piece of amber in the world – It was used as a doorstop

How observatornews.ro reported, an amber nugget was recently found by the World Record Academy as the largest in the world. It is a 3.5 kilogram piece that is said to be worth around one million euros. It can now be viewed in the Buzău County Museum, an amber museum – but its story is an incredible one.

In fact, it was not geologists who discovered the stone, but a walker who was collecting stones – who apparently had no idea of ​​its value. “It was found by chance by a citizen from the village of Colţi at the bottom of the Colţi River while he was collecting stones after heavy rainfall,” Felicia Mihai, curator of the Colţi Amber Museum, told the portal about the history of the stone. “It was discovered many years ago in someone’s house,” said Daniel Costache, director of the Buzău County Museum. So the amber was simply used as a doorstop in the home for many years, writes the Romanian portal.

There are two stories about how the stone came to the museum – it is considered a national treasure

The old lady who owned the stone did not know the value of the stone – probably because this stone was more of a black color and not the widely known, shimmering, golden-yellow amber color. According to the World Record Academy Romanian amber is between 40 and 70 million years old.

There is no clear story as to how the amber came to the museum. The story of www.elpais.com At least it goes like this: “The extraordinary fossil resin caught the attention of a relative of the house owner, who died two years after the fall of the communist dictatorship in 1989.” He had inherited the piece of amber, which he had initially thought was just a stone. “He examined it more closely and concluded that it could be a semi-precious stone of great value,” it says. The treasure was then sold to the Romanian state and classified as a national treasure.

Amber finds are being made all the time around the Colți region in Romania, where there is a nature reserve. “The area of ​​the reserve has an area of ​​2.52 hectares and is located in the northwestern part of Buzău County, at the foot of the Ivănețu massif at an altitude of 500 to 600 meters, northeast of the village of Colți,” says the World Record AcademyAmber from this region is also called “Rumanite”. A walker also recently found a chunk on the North Sea that turned out to be amber. A similar find was made on the island of Borkum. On the other hand, a boy found a sapphire while out for a walk. (jh)