Lucklum coin treasure

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The Lucklum coin treasure found in 1859, as it can currently be seen in the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum : 120 bracteates and the earthen pot in which they were found.

The Lucklum coin treasure , also known as the Lucklum treasure or the Lucklum bracteate find , is a deposit from 1859. On the grounds of the Lucklum manor on the Elm , several hundred bracteates made of mostly strong sheet of silver were found in an earthen ball pot . It is no longer possible to determine how high the exact number was. It fluctuates between 1083 and 120.

Find history

Since 1856 one was in Lucklum tufa - quarry operated. During the geological investigation of further mining areas in the immediate vicinity, several old burial fields with numerous human bones and urns were found. Animal bones have also been excavated, mainly from horses. Not far from the larger burial grounds, the pot with the coins was finally found in 1859 on an area called “the garden”.

The first written mention of the find can be found in the Braunschweigisches Magazin from August 17, 1861. The then cantor in Lucklum, Johann Heinrich Christian Schmidt , mentioned there in his article a hike through the tufa-limestone quarry near Lucklum. the find without, however, going into more detail about it. A second, also only brief, mention followed in 1881 in Wilhelm Görges ' and Ferdinand Spehr's Patriotic Stories and Memories of the Lands of Braunschweig and Hanover , where the number of coins was given as 1083.

The find was not known in detail until 1963 and was never scientifically described in detail until then. The numismatist Julius Menadier mentioned it in two of his works in 1888 and 1891, but it wasn't until 1962, 103 years after it was found, that the historian and numismatist Wilhelm Jesse described it in more detail. In June 1962, the Braunschweig Municipal Museum only learned that there were still over 400 coins from the find and the earthen pot in Lucklum. The then landowner and owner of the coin find, Segeband von Henninges (* April 26, 1907, † December 1985), gave Wilhelm Jesse the treasure for scientific assessment and publication of its results.

The spherical pot that contained the coins is made of gray, unglazed clay. The neck of the vessel is decorated with grooves. The vessel is 14 cm high and 18 cm wide at the belly. Except for a small blemish on the edge, the urn is in good condition. How many coins the treasure actually contained cannot be clarified today. Görges and Spehr stated in 1083 that Jesse found an old piece of paper with the number 425 on the treasure in 1963 , but only counted 414 bracteates herself. If you add those coins that were previously in the Braunschweig Municipal Museum, the total number rises to 428 or 432 (Jesse himself speaks of 14 coins once, one page further of 18 coins in the museum's possession). After Spehr 1881, some coins are said to have gone to the “Ducal Museum”, today's Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, in addition to the city museum . However, the number was not given. This would mean that approx. 650 coins, if 1083 was the correct original number, must have been “lost” within almost 100 years.

All bracteates were from the 13th century. No coin was before the year 1235 coined been and no later than 1240 (Jesse talks about the latest 1252, the death of Otto I). The vast majority of Brakteaten bears in Gothic capital letters the inscription "+ OTTO DVX DE BRVN" in the meniscus and thus has the reign of Otto I , called "Otto the Child" (1204-1252) out; a grandson of the Brunswick Duke Henry the Lion . The average fineness of the coins is 888/ 1000 , the average weight is 0.774 g . Only one piece was without lettering, the others showed next to the inscription a (“ leopard ”) lion striding along a wall . Undoubtedly recognizable as the Braunschweig lion . The Lucklum coin find is unusual in several respects, because on the one hand it is the only large coin find in Lower Saxony that exclusively contains regional currency, and on the other hand the coins are largely identical, which is unusual for such old coin finds, as these are in the As a rule, they were treasures that were saved over a long period of time and therefore consist of a multitude of different types of coins, coins and materials. Not so in this case.

In the summer of 2011, the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum, together with the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum and the Braunschweigischer Kulturbesitz Foundation, acquired the treasure for 20,000 euros from private collections. Since then it has been exhibited in the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum. Since its discovery in 1859, the number of coins has decreased in the last 150 years to only 120 coins today.

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  1. ^ A b c Wilhelm Görges, Ferdinand Spehr: Patriotic stories and memorabilia of the states of Braunschweig and Hanover. 2nd edition, Friedrich Wagner, Braunschweig 1881, p. 153.
  2. ↑ Lucklum coin treasure
  3. ^ Johann Heinrich Christian Schmidt: Hike through the limestone quarry near Lucklum. In: Braunschweigisches Magazin. 32nd piece, Saturday, August 10th, 1861., p. 313.
  4. ^ Johann Heinrich Christian Schmidt: Hike through the limestone quarry near Lucklum. In: Braunschweigisches Magazin. 32nd piece, Saturday, August 10th, 1861., p. 313ff.
  5. ^ Johann Heinrich Christian Schmidt: Hike through the limestone quarry near Lucklum (conclusion). In: Braunschweigisches Magazin. 33rd Piece, Saturday, August 17th, 1861., p. 322, 1st footnote: At this point there was also a pot with bracteates at a not insignificant depth. ... About this find, perhaps later.
  6. ^ A b c d Wilhelm Jesse: Bracteate find from Lucklum near Braunschweig 1859. Buried after 1235. In: Hamburg contributions to numismatics. Volume 17 (1963), p. 567.
  7. ^ Gerhard Steinhoff: Segeband von Henninges to the memory. In: Braunschweigische Heimat 72, Heft 1, Braunschweig 1986, pp. 25-26.
  8. ^ Wilhelm Jesse: Bracteatenfund by Lucklum near Braunschweig 1859. Buried after 1235. In: Hamburg contributions to numismatics. Volume 17 (1963), p. 568.