在一个谦虚的石屋中发现的1,720个“napoléons”金币的Trove

在广泛搜寻了谦虚的石屋之后，公证人即将放弃。然后他看着储藏室墙上的图片后面

A notary searching a modest stone house for clues to the whereabouts of a deceased bachelor’s relatives was about to give up. Then he glanced behind a picture on the wall of a storage room, packed with fishing rods and garden tools.

一个公证人搜索一个适度的石头房屋，寻找已故单身汉亲戚的下落的线索即将放弃。然后，他瞥了一眼储藏室墙壁上的图片，里面装满了钓鱼竿和花园工具。

Built into the wall was a chest containing a trove of coins and medallions, meticulously labelled, along with ten cloth pouches, each containing 172 “Napoléon”, as 20 franc French gold coins are known.

内置在墙壁上的是一个箱子，里面装有一堆硬币和奖章，并贴有十个布袋，每个袋子都包含172个“napoléon”，因为有20枚法郎法国金币。

Among the coins, some dating back to the 14th century, were seven from the Duchy of Aquitaine with the likeness of Edward the Black Prince, who spent nine years there in the Hundred Years’ War after being appointed ruler in Bordeaux by his father, Edward III.

在硬币中，有些可以追溯到14世纪，有7个来自阿基坦公国的七个，与黑人王子爱德华（Edward the Black Prince）的相似之处，在他的父亲爱德华三世（Edward III）被任命为波尔多（Bordeaux）之后，在百年战争中度过了九年。

Also of note were “masterpieces of gothic art” and coins from the reigns of Louis XIII and Louis XVI, plus coins struck just after the latter’s execution at the revolutionary guillotine in 1793.

同样值得注意的是“哥特式艺术的杰作”和路易十三和路易十六世统治时期的硬币，再加上后者在1793年革命性断头台执行后遭到的硬币。

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“I have never seen such a major collection go on sale from the point of view of quantity and quality,” said Thierry Parsy, an expert at Drouot auction house in Paris, where the coins are to be sold in separate lots on Thursday in an evening sale beginning at 6 p.m.. Narce “knew what he was buying,” Parsy added.

“从数量和质量的角度来看，我从未见过如此重大的收藏量开始出售，”巴黎Drouot拍卖行的专家Thierry Parsy说，在这里，硬币将于周四在晚上6点开始在晚上的销售中分别出售。 Narce“知道他在买什么，” Parsy补充说。

The coins are estimated at €2 million. The Napoléons, which Parsy said were in “exceptional condition”, are valued at about €100,000 and will be sold separately.

硬币估计为200万欧元。帕尔西（Parsy）说的那不勒斯（Napoléons）的价值约为100,000欧元，将分别出售。

The deceased collector, named Narce, lived alone in the house in the village of Monbahus, in the Lot-et-Garonne département in southwestern France, close to the Dordogne boundary.

已故的收藏家名为Narce，独自生活在蒙巴胡斯村的房屋中，位于法国西南部的Lot-Et-et-Garonnedépartement，靠近多达多恩边界。

Pierre Sicaud, the mayor of the village, which has a population of 1,300, said no one had imagined that Narce and his sister, who died a few years ago, had amassed such a valuable collection.

该村庄市长皮埃尔·西科德（Pierre Sicaud）人口为1,300，他说，几年前去世的纳斯（Narce）和他的姐姐已经积累了如此宝贵的收藏。

“They were very polite, very modest people who lived in an ordinary house a stone’s throw from the mairie,” he told the Sud Ouest newspaper.

他告诉Sud Ouest报纸：“他们非常有礼貌，非常适度的人住在普通房子里，距离Mairie一箭。”

The notary, who has not been named, is continuing his search for the heirs, who are said to be distant cousins of Narce. They will inherit not only the coins but also a small sum of money that was found in a drawer.

尚未透露姓名的公证人正在继续寻找继承人，据说这是纳斯的远处的表亲。他们不仅将继承硬币，而且继承一小笔钱，这些钱在抽屉中发现。