Barbarossa Fund

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A treasure trove of around 7,700 silver coins and some pieces of hacked silver from the time of Friedrich Barbarossa , which appeared in the coin trade in 1982/1985, is called Barbarossa Fund .

The find weighs around 8 kilograms and is believed to have come from Turkey . The collected coins come from various German mints, as well as from London , Lucca and Antioch . Its origin and composition suggested that the find be associated with Barbarossa's crusade in 1189/1190. Due to its size, the find was quickly interpreted as “the emperor's war chest”. In fact, however, it should have "belonged to a higher-ranking participant in the Barbarossa army who, under whatever circumstances, lost him somewhere on the march between Silifke and Antioch ."

literature

  • Rudolf Hiestand: The Emperor's War Chest? Thoughts on the “Barbarossa Fund” from a historical perspective. In: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte 78 (1991), pp. 190–197.
  • Ulrich Klein: German coinage towards the end of the 12th century and the “Barbarossa Fund”. In: Swiss Numismatic Rundschau 65 (1986), pp. 205–230.
  • Ulrich Klein: The non-German coins from the “Barbarossa Fund”. In: Swiss Numismatic Rundschau 66 (1987), pp. 193-204.
  • Alan V. Murray: Cash and booty: Composition and creation of the "Barbarossa treasure" in the context of the Third Crusade. In: Elisabeth Vavra , Kornelia Holzner-Tobisch, Thomas Kühtreiber (eds.): From dealing with treasures. International Congress, Krems an der Donau, October 28th to 30th, 2004. Austrian Academy of Sciences: Meeting reports of the phil.-hist. Class 771 / Publications of the Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age 20. Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-7001-3721-4 , pp. 231–246.
  • Gerd Stumpf (Ed.): The crusade of Emperor Barbarossas. Coin treasures of its time. Exhibition catalog of the State Coin Collection. 2nd Edition. Munich 1993, ISBN 3-922840-03-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arnold Bühler (ed.): The crusade of Friedrich Barbarossas 1187–1190. Eyewitness report. Foreign cultures in old reports 13. Thorbecke, Ostfildern, 2nd edition 2005, p. 22.