Coin hoard from Osterburken
The Osterburken coin hoard is a deposit that was made in 1992. It consists of 327 denarii .
The coin treasure was discovered in the moat of Fort Osterburken . The silver coins were. Deposited by 233 n. Chr there, probably related to the attacks of the Alemanni the hinterland of the 3rd century Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes revenue . The treasure that was found during excavations at the annex fort is likely to have come from the possession of a person of higher rank.
The hoard only contained silver denarii of stable value, but no bronze coins and also no copy of the so-called Antoninian , an underweight double denarius, introduced since 214/15 . The coins originated from the epochs of the Emperor Vespasian to Severus Alexander , although the most recent coins of the hoard cannot be dated exactly because they are not provided with information about their office. 37.9% of the denarii from the Osterburken hoard come from the time of Severus Alexander, 35.6% from the time of Elagabal , who was his predecessor in office. Peter-Hugo Martin concluded from the composition of the hoard: "It is [...] probably about a purposefully brought together savings capital, in which the owner only put the" good old "denarii on the" high edge "." The coin hoard of Osterburken is exhibited in the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Doppelkastell Osterburken on www.limesseiten.de
- ^ Hidden capital , in: Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, Römer am Oberrhein. Guide to the Provincial Roman Department , Karlsruhe 2008, ISBN 978-3-937345-28-4 , p. 61