Posted on 02/11/2022 11:52:53 AM PST by csvset
A volunteer archaeologist has discovered an ancient stash of Celtic coins, whose "value must have been immense," in Brandenburg, a state in northeastern Germany. The 41 gold coins were minted more than 2,000 years ago, and are the first known Celtic gold treasure in Brandenburg, Manja Schüle, the Minister of Culture in Brandenburg announced in December 2021.
The coins are curved, a feature that inspired the German name "regenbogenschüsselchen," which translates to "rainbow cups." Just like the legend that there's a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow, "in popular belief, rainbow cups were found where a rainbow touched the Earth,"
Marjanko Pilekić, a numismatist and research assistant at the Coin Cabinet of the Schloss Friedenstein Gotha Foundation in Germany, who studied the hoard, told Live Science in an email. Another piece of lore is that rainbow cups "fell directly from the sky and were considered lucky charms and objects with a healing effect," Pilekić added.
It's likely that peasants often found the ancient gold coins on their fields after rainfall, "freed from dirt and shining," he said. The hoard was discovered by Wolfgang Herkt, a volunteer archaeologist with the Brandenburg State Heritage Management and Archaeological State Museum (BLDAM), near the village of Baitz in 2017. After Herkt got a landowner's permission to search a local farm, he noticed something gold and shiny. "It reminded him of a lid of a small liquor bottle," Pilekić said. "However, it was a Celtic gold coin." After finding 10 more coins, Herkt reported the discovery to the BLDAM, whose archaeologists brought the hoard's total to 41 coins. "This is an exceptional find that you probably only make once in a lifetime," Herkt said in a statement.
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DINGETY DING! DING! DING! DING DING DING DING DING! BLING BLING BLING....
Me: I asked you nicely earlier to turn off the sound effects!
Jesus: Oh! Sorry....
What an amazing find!
Ping.
Those cups belong to the clan Kehoe.
The boar and ax shield tells the story.
I want them back.
5.56mm
Shut up and dig all night?
Watch for the LGBTetc. crowd to claim these Regenbogen coins for themselves. You know they love to ascribe sexual perversions to historical figures.
How did they ever use these as coinage? Seem too heavy and unwieldy to carry around.
Remarkable!
Plus, everything "rainbow", they own it all.
And does the finder get to keep anything?
They just hijacked the rainbow from Christians.
bump
regenbogenschüsselchen
can anyone say this 3 times fast?
Gunter glieben glauchen globen!
I can’t be alone in this but if I ever found a quantity of gold or silver fairly called a “hoard”, you nor anyone else would ever hear about it. Melt value of this find is under $10,000 so I wouldn’t destroy the archeological value but this would stay on the down low.
Average weight 7.1 grams each
Poor descriptor.
The govt and the university archaeologists think they own everything someone else finds.
Celtic Iron Age Coins - Catuvellauni - Early Whaddon Chase Cogwheel Gold Stater
Can’t relate to that. I don’t use the metric system.
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