Lusatia coin treasure

The village of Lausitz and its surroundings seen from the southeast.

The Lausitz coin treasure was found in a bowl-shaped 10.5 centimeter high kump , about two kilometers northwest of the southern Brandenburg municipality of Lausitz . It consisted of 53 silver coins, which were probably from the period 31 to 180 C.E. Z. originate. They probably only got into the earth a short time after 180 years. At the same site there were seven fire pit graves from the same period, five of which were within a diameter of five meters. There were ashes, remains of coal and small black stones in these pits.

The coins, which were denarii , represented issues of the Roman emperors Vespasian , Domitian , Nerva , Trajan , Hadrian , Antoninus Pius , Marcus Aurelius and Hadrian's wife Vibia Sabina .

Individual evidence

^ Günter Wetzel: Archaeological finds - Cottbus district . Ed .: Museum for Pre- and Protohistory Potsdam Branch office for ground monument preservation Cottbus. Druck und Buch Merseburg, 1974, p. 50, 78 .
↑ The Black Elster - Our home in words and pictures, then and now . Liebenwerda June 30, 1931, p. 697–698 (free supplement to the Liebenwerdaer Kreisblatt , Falkenberger Tageblatt , Das Ländchen , Ortrander Anzeiger and Mühlberger Anzeiger ).

[1] Günter Wetzel: Archaeological finds - Cottbus district . Ed .: Museum for Pre- and Protohistory Potsdam Branch office for ground monument preservation Cottbus. Druck und Buch Merseburg, 1974, p. 50, 78 .

[2] The Black Elster - Our home in words and pictures, then and now . Liebenwerda June 30, 1931, p. 697–698 (free supplement to the Liebenwerdaer Kreisblatt , Falkenberger Tageblatt , Das Ländchen , Ortrander Anzeiger and Mühlberger Anzeiger ).