Posted on 11/19/2021 10:51:54 PM PST by SunkenCiv
More than 5,500 silver coins buried by a river about 1,800 years ago are now in the hands of archaeologists, following the hoard's discovery in Augsburg, Germany.
At the time of the coins' burial, the Roman Empire was in full swing, with its coinage reaching all corners of its territory and beyond.
These coins "are denarii, the standard silver denomination during the 1st-early 3rd century [A.D.]," Stefan Krmnicek, a professor of ancient numismatics (the study of coins) at the University of Tübingen in Germany, told Live Science in an email.
Archaeologists found the hoard earlier this year in an old riverbed. But though the coins were scattered in the newly dug pit, that likely wasn't how they were originally placed. "The place of hiding was probably washed away many centuries later by a flood of the Wertach river, scattering the coins in the river gravel," Krmnicek said.
"We have just started cleaning and studying the material," but so far, it appears that "the youngest coin of the hoard was minted at the beginning of the 3rd century [A.D.], thus dating the deposition of the hoard in the early 3rd century," Krmnicek said. "We currently hypothesize that the hoard was buried in the early 3rd century outside the Roman city of Augusta Vindelicum, near the Via Claudia Augusta [a Roman road] running there."
At that time, Augusta Vindelicum was the capital of the Roman province of Raetia, Krmnicek said. Why the hoard was buried is an ongoing mystery that researchers are trying to solve.
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Boss Idious dropped the bad some place in the river.....
In ancient times people often buried their money in a jar in the ground when conditions were dangerous. That the money was found in modern times as a hoard means the owner never came back to get it. A lot of Roman coin hoards date to the Second Punic War when Hannibal was marching around Italy and large numbers of Romans were getting killed in battles. A.D. 235 is the beginning of a period of about 50 years of frequent barbarian invasions and civil wars in the Roman Empire. These coins may have been buried for safekeeping about the beginning of this period.
Rd later.
Yup.
“Render to God what is God’s and to Caesar what is Caesar’s.”
The Roman Taxman got stiffed.
The German Taxman is smiling..................
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