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Gold train hunter strikes GOLD with discovery of priceless 500-year-old renaissance wall art

Feeling proud! Piotr Koper failed to find a gold train packed with looted art but is laughing now after his discovery of 24 priceless 500-year-old wall portraits. Piotr Koper/Facebook

The discovery by Piotr Koper at a palace in the village of Struga is one of the most valuable in the region as nowhere have so many 16th-century paintings survived intact.

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