While remodeling an old mansion in the French countryside, three craftsmen stumbled on hidden treasure: 239 rare gold coins stashed away in the walls of the property. The hoard is valued at roughly $350,000. In 2019, the married couple who owned the home in Plozévet—a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in northwestern France—decided to renovate the plot, which they purchased seven years earlier, joining three buildings together. Stonemasons were hired, and they set to work. They literally struck gold late October 2019 in two separate spots: inside a wall, they found a metal box filled with pre-French Revolution gold coins; days later, a purse containing the remainder of the coins was discovered above a beam, stated a press release from Ivoire Angers/Saumur Auction House. “I thought it was a joke, but no!” homeowner François Mion, 63, told Le Télégramme in French. Mion handed in the 239 coins to Finistère’s Regional Preventive …