Archaeologists have discovered more than $318,000 worth of gold and silver coins believed to have been used by pagans as “devil’s money” at a rare Medieval worship site in the Netherlands.

Archaeologists have unearthed a hoard of gold and silver coins offered as diobolgeldæ, or “devil's money”, at a medieval cult site in the Netherlands, shedding more light on the rituals of ...

To get Christianised, people in the region were compelled to renounce their gods and stop their ritual of offering “devil's money” at pagan cult sites. Remarkably rare hoard of 404 coins ...