Chyňava coin treasure
The Chyňava coin treasure was a deposit of 323 Czech and other coins from the period between 1471 and 1611. It was found in 1968 in the center of the village of Chyňava in Czechoslovakia .
description
The coin treasure was discovered in the spring of 1968 during excavation work for a sewer ditch at house no.190 on Velká Strana in Chyňava. The find made one meter from the house at a depth of 40 cm includes a total of 323 coins that were buried in linen. At 253 of the coins it was Bohemian imprints: Prague penny from the time of Vladislav II. , Louis II. And Ferdinand I , White penny from the time of Maximilian II. And White and Small penny from the time of Rudolf II. In addition, included the Schatz 23 Austrian coins, 21 Swiss coins and 26 Polish, Saxon, Palatinate-Zweibrückniche and Alsatian coins. The oldest Bohemian coins were Prague groschen minted before 1480, the youngest whites and small groschen minted in Kuttenberg in 1605 . The most recent coin was a three-cruiser of Duke Johann II of Pfalz-Zweibrücken without a date, which must have been minted before 1611. The coin treasure was handed over to the Beroun District Museum (entrance number 21/73).
history
It is certain that the coins were deposited in the ground by their owner during a war event in the Chyňava area after 1605. At that time, the Kulyš family from Chyňava was registered as the owner of the property in the Karlstein land register from 1608. When creating the land register, Martin Kulyš, who had inherited the property, the inheritance court and the tavern from his father Johann Wenzel, was entered. In 1611, after Martin Kulyš's death, the property was transferred to Wenceslaus Kulyš.
Since the find does not contain any coins from the immediate period before the Thirty Years' War , it is considered most likely that the landfill occurred during the Jülich-Klevian succession dispute in 1611. In January 1611, the Passau War People , a mercenary army of Prince-Bishop Leopold von Passau, under the command of General Laurentius Ramée , invaded southern Bohemia. On February 11, 1611 part of the Passau war people occupied the city of Beroun , the main part of the mercenary army , which had moved to Prague , was driven out by the troops of King Matthias on the same day after the devastation of the Lesser Town . Beroun remained in the hands of the Passau mercenaries for almost a month. The bad reputation of the Passau war people, who murdered and plundered the Bohemian interior via Krumau , Budweis and Tabor , preceded them far. This is probably why Kulyš buried his money in early 1611. It is not known why the owner left the coins in their hiding place. It is possible that the hiding place was considered safe for him later after the outbreak of the Thirty Years War.
literature
- Zdenka Nemeškalová-Jiroudková, Lubomír Nemeškal: Nález mincí Z 16. a 17. století v Chyňavě (or Beroun). In: Numismatický sborník 15, 1077/78, 1979, pp. 237-300.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 1 ′ 41 ″ N , 14 ° 4 ′ 40 ″ E