A school class from Feda School found 100,000 in a box buried in the woods, about 400 meters from the old E18.
-We're rich, we can hear one of the children shouting on the video posted on NRK.no.
Also VG has featured the case where there is now speculation about where the money may have come from.
A quick calculation at Statistics Norway shows that the sum of 100,000 banknotes from 1969 would now be worth well over NOK 1 million in today's value. In the comments section of VG, several people have also pointed out the collector's value, if the banknotes are kept in as good condition as they were when they were found.
The money has now been handed over to the police, who will try to find out if there is anything criminal behind the burial, which was probably done around 50 years ago.
Feda school is located just outside Flekkefjord and the police have therefore already contacted Flekkefjord Sparebank in an attempt to find out where the money may have come from.
Unfortunately, the inquiry did not yield a solution and the banknotes remain a mystery.
A quick search in the National Library of Norway's newspaper archive can provide answers
Slekt1 has conducted a search in the newspaper archive of the National Library and found a possible clue.
On August 30, 1971, two years after at least one of the banknotes was printed, the newspaper Agder reported a bank robbery at Lom og Skjåk Sparebank. The thieves got away with around 340,000 kroner.
Now it's a long way from this bank to the forest outside Flekkefjord. However, the bank was not lucky in the early 1970s. The following year, Østlands-Posten reported that the bank had been robbed again, this time for around NOK 132,000.
If you know where the money found by pupils at Feda school came from, you can tip off the police in Agder at this email address (post.agder@politiet.no), please send it with a copy to Slekt1.
