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The Lohe Treasure

Photo: Anders Hvid
In October of 1937 some construction workers found a silver treasure in a former potato shop located at Lilla Nygatan 5. The treasure was found when an old stone floor was taken away. 18 000 silver coins and a lot of items!! Everything was hidden in three copper vessels, dug down a long time ago. The items had never been used. The youngest coins were made in 1741. The treasure was hidden some time after that. By who? And why?

The house was in the 18th century owned by the Lohe family. Johan Lohe and his wife Anna Blom had 18 children together. They might have been Stockholm’s richest family. The money came from a shipping company with many ships, a sugar work, several iron works and rural properties.
They lent money with high interest, even to the king. It was said that they were “greedy, suspicious and not too unscrupulous.”

In the year of 1743 the aging siblings Tobias and Johanna Lohe lived in the house. It was tough times. Several relatives had had break-ins and one of their brothers had been robbed and killed. Now 5000 rebellious men were standing in Gustav Adolf’s square, and threatened to break into the houses of Old Town. Could it be at that point the treasure was hidden?

Parts of the treasure is now shown on floor 1 as a part of the exhibition A Journey in Time - Stockholm thtough 750 years.

Photo: Göran H Fredriksson
The coins of the treasure are today shown at Kungl. Myntkabinettet in Old Town in the exhibition The Magic of Hoards .

Read more about the museum here: http://www.myntkabinettet.se/engl.htm