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.

Professor of the History of Medieval Art at the University of Cambridge, Paul Binski believes that the first examples of marginalia started in the university towns, in particular in Oxford and Paris.

Archaeologists unearthed a rare medieval cult site dated to the 7th century, with a hoard of gold and silver offerings. They were offered as diobolgeldæ, or “devil's money”, which brought to ...