Gold coins from Biesenbrow
The eight gold coins from Biesenbrow , a district of Angermünde in the Uckermark district in Brandenburg, are only about the size of today's 5-cent pieces, weigh about 4.4 grams and are badly bent. Archaeologists suspect that the treasure was buried in the middle of the 6th century AD.
On the front there are images of rulers with names and titles, on the back there is a Victoria with a cross, a saying and the reference to the mint. A gold piece with the image of Theudebert I (533–548), the grandson of King Clovis I, is a sensation . There are very few of them, and the one found is possibly the oldest. With this minting, Theudebert broke the privilege of the (Eastern) Roman emperors, who until then were the only ones allowed to issue gold coins with their image.
As early as the 19th century, 200 gold coins and gold wire were discovered during field work in Biesenbrow . Only four of them ended up in the coin cabinet of the Staatliche Museen Berlin - the rest was melted down. In the 19th century, a teacher wrote about the gold pieces originally from Constantinople and Rome , called Solidi , but did not name the place where they were found.
Web links
- Description and picture ( Memento from February 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- Description ( Memento from January 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
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