2. 3. 1962 Jug with coins in a water trench

A jug in the shape of a treasure box containing 537 silver and gold coins was found in 1962 near the Januštice stream. A gold ducat was lying at the very top of the jar. The coins date from the 16th and 17th centuries.

The depot was discovered when a new waterworks was being built on the Januštice. The green-glazed jug in the form of a treasure box was discovered by an archaeologist when he was inspecting a trench dug for a water conduit near Zavrtálek's mill. It was a coincidence, of course, no one had any idea that the stream "hid" such a rarity.

Someone had hidden the treasure during the turbulent times of marauding military invasions of Moravia. It contained coins from Bohemia, Moravia and other European countries from 1545 to 1687. But who exactly hid the jug has not been identified by archaeologists. It was around the time the youngest coin was struck.

In any case, the owner was consistent. He carefully sealed the neck of the jar with a kind of twisted cloth stopper and covered it with white wax. When the archaeologists opened the jar, they saw a gold ducat on top. It was wrapped in a leaf torn from an old calendar from January 1686. Underneath were silver thalers, and at the bottom was another gold ducat.

The jug with the coins was stored in the Moravian Museum in Brno. Part of the local treasure was on display eleven years ago in the museum in Zlín. Visitors could point out the place where the treasure was found on a large map of Zlín painted on the floor of the museum hall.

The exhibition also showed many other places of Zlín that people pass by. For example, the park by the dam, where young people make appointments. There was a cemetery there until 1949 and many human remains are still there today.

The Januštice stream, where the archaeologist found the jug, is also called Frýštácký. It rises in the Hostýn Hills and flows through the Homoves Pond, then through Fryšták and the Fryštacka Dam, and in Zlín it flows into the Dřevnice River. The name Januštice originated from the local millers.

Januštík was quite famous in his time, he proved to be a very capable governor. For example, he was able to create an extensive and well-functioning reconnaissance network in a relatively short time. With the help of this apparatus, he deftly obtained reports on the movements of troops, the location of garrisons and the like in a wide, distant area.

Sources: www.geocaching.com, www.blesk.cz, https://milan-krajca.webnode.cz/, www.wikipedia.org