Archaeologists found treasure of silver Celtic coins

Slovak Spectator ^ | November 24, 2018 | SITA, Compiled by Spectator staff

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Archaeologists found a treasure of Celtic coins in Mosskaovce near Turãianske Teplice. The finding of 40 coins contains the most precious coins that Celts minted in this era, so-called tetradrachms.

"The Celts had highly-developed coin system; tetradrachms have four times the higher value of other nominals," explains Karol Pieta, deputy of director from Archaeological Institute of Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV) in Nitra, as quoted by the SITA newswire.

Tetradrachms are about nine to ten grams in weight, as if they have four drachms inside, which were the smallest coins in that time, Pieta explains.

It is highly probable that they are minted from silver originating from a Carpathian (Slovak) deposit. The economic power of Celts in the Slovak area was to a considerable extent based on using natural resources, especially gold, silver and iron. The Turiec region belonged among the key economic and cultural centres of Celts in Slovakia, Pieta added.

Archaeologists are carrying out a systematic research in the cadastre of Mosskaovce village as well as in the cadastres of other villages in connection to wood mining, due to the bark beetle calamity.

They were lucky to overtake raiders who find precious findings with metal detectors in Slovakia and then sell them or exchange with other collectors.

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Source: Karol Pieta

[SunkenCiv]

Archaeologists found a unique discovery in the village of Hozelec near Poprad. They have discovered many various materials from several time eras in a locality called Dubina in a ground bank. The most precious are the Bronze-era jewelry, possible to date from the Middle to Late Bronze Age.

Matússka Hudák, archaeologist of Spisska Museum in Spisskaská Nová Ves, said that Celtic clips are also an interesting part of the discovery.

"We found, for example, a spur, a needle and horseshoes from the late eras as well as coins, so-called solidus from modern history and various jewels, knives and other objects that someone probably lost," said Hudák, as quoted by the TASR newswire.

Leather from the Bronze Age

The treasure itself consists of jewelry of Bronze spirals and tin funnel-shaped hangers that were probably put into the ground in a leather package with three Bronze disk-like objects sewed to the top. The remains of organic leather material that is about 3000 years old were kept between them and the jewelry.

"The remains of leather straps were also preserved inside of spirals and hangers. We saw at the beginning that close to the jewelry there was a darker soil that indicated the possible decomposition of organic material," Mária Hudákova, archaeologist, said for TASR. -- Archaeologists found treasure from the Bronze Age

Source: Oliver Ondrásska, TASR

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[SunkenCiv]

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[eartick]

Amazing. It seems these age coins are stamped out on an anvil from silver sheet and not some type of mold that takes the molten silver and then cools to have a coin.

Do you have any info on that?

[a fool in paradise]

>>They also found out that Celts put them into soil in times of battles at the beginning of anno Domini. It is already the second large-scale finding of coins in this area, the first being in 2008.

That’s a lot of foreign currency to take on a trip (into battle, no less). I wonder what the exchange rate was.

[2banana]

Coins with chickens on them???

[Does so]

France has a gold coin featuring a rooster!

[Tucker39]

I plead ignorance of medievil history. Please explain the connection between Celtics, who I understand to be the various Brit peoples; English, Irish, Scottish.....and Slovaks, which I would take to be Czechs, Polish and other related Eastern Europeans. Thank you.

[Red Badger]

Appears to be a duck...................

[nwrep]

First of all, this is not medieval history, but late Iron Age (around 900-500BC), so it is considered prehistoric or from early antiquity (before the Roman era).

Celtic tribes conquered parts of Slovakia towards the end of the Iron Age. These coins are from then.

The medieval era came after the fall of the Western Roman Empire beginning in the 5th century AD. So these coins are about a thousand years before the start of the dark ages in Europe.

[csvset]

It’s a horse... with spider like legs ? 🤔

[Red Badger]

The ‘dots’ appear to be the constellation Pleiades...........

[AFreeBird]

Got one of those. Dated 1914.

[Verginius Rufus]

When they say "beginning of anno Domini" they probably mean about the beginning of the Christian era (1st century B.C. or 1st century A.D.). Celtic tribes were more widespread then than later including parts of Central Europe.

First Greek coins are in the 500s B.C. "Tetradrachm" suggests that these coins were minted based on familiar denominations of Greek or Macedonian coins ("tetra-" is from the Greek word for "four").

[Verginius Rufus]

When they say "beginning of anno Domini" they probably mean about the beginning of the Christian era (1st century B.C. or 1st century A.D.). Celtic tribes were more widespread then than later including parts of Central Europe.

First Greek coins are in the 500s B.C. "Tetradrachm" suggests that these coins were minted based on familiar denominations of Greek or Macedonian coins ("tetra-" is from the Greek word for "four").

[Tucker39]

Thank you.

[SunkenCiv]

[SunkenCiv]

The Celts came from the east, Central Asia probably; the various Germanic people came in later, pushing them out and/or absorbing them; Slavic peoples came in during the so-called Dark Ages, probably from Central Asia.

[SunkenCiv]

Chickens, not ducks. Where do you think we got the expression "bucks"? See next message.