Rare 800-year-old silver artifacts found at church in Sweden — and spark a mystery

Miami Herald via Yahoo! ^ | April 11, 2024 | Aspen Pflughoeft

[SunkenCiv]

The 800-year-old silver coins found at Brahekyrkan church in Visingsö.

Jönköping County Museum

[SunkenCiv]

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[ScaniaBoy]

Brahe Church in Visingsö:

[ScaniaBoy]

Why this is such an interesting find:

The years 1160 - 1180 are two decades when the Swedish kingdom was fought over by the Sverkerska and Erikska families. During the latter half of the 12th century and until 1248 members of those families intermittently held the title of Swedish King.

The Sverkerska family had its main hold in Östergötland (to the east of Visingsö) and was often allied with the Catholic Church. The Erikska family heralded from Västergötland (to the west of Visingsö) and had its power base mainly among the lords and chieftains of the area that made up Sweden at that time.

Unfortunately, not many written records from this era have remained, and therefore these coins may be very useful for the historians.

[minnesota_bound]

It was safer then a bank which I guess did not exist.
The owners of those coins were probably killed.

[minnesota_bound]

The owners buried the coins with the dead but they themselves were probably killed.

[Adder]

Hey look! The geothermal project is paid for...

[Candor7]

They found your Viking mad money stash from your old life in Sweden!

[telescope115]

The reverse (or obverse) of those coins seems to have a similar design found on Oak Island, and medieval churches in Europe- the cross with four dots.
Possibly Templar?

[Beowulf9]

“Some of the 800-year-old artifacts had completely unknown designs”.

Now THAT’S interesting!

[Tax-chick]

Thank you for the information. That’s really interesting.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Arcade tokens?

[texanyankee]

Looks Templar related to me as well.

[deweyfrank]

I see the Templar cross with the four dots on some of them.

[ScaniaBoy]

Not impossible at all.

Erik Jedvardsson (later St Erik) lived 1120 - 1160, king between 1150-1160 is thought to have organised a crusade in the East ie Finland and the Baltics of today. His father Jedvard Knutsson Bonde took part in a crusade to Jerusalem. Templar? However, putting gifts in the graves was more a heathen than Christian custom.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks SB!

[logi_cal869]

Probably blood money.

[Vaduz]

A man could deal with living in a landscape like that.

[Albion Wilde]

Their commissary accounts for the afterlife?

[Sirius Lee]

In total, archaeologists found 170 silver coins dating between 1150 to 1180

Awwww….i want one.