Podmokl coin treasure
The Podmokl coin treasure ( Podmokelský poklad in Czech ) was a deposit of around 5000 golden rainbow bowls from 1771. It was found north of the village of Podmokl ( Podmokly ) in the Kingdom of Bohemia and is considered the largest find of its kind in Bohemia.
history
On June 11, 1771, the farmer Jan Koch, called Janota, saw a bronze kettle flushed free in a water crack while mowing a meadow on the left bank of the Podmokler stream. The rotten vessel contained around 5,000 Celtic gold coins from the middle of the 1st century BC. With a purity of 986/1000 as well as a collar. The deposit is probably related to the Celtic fort in Hradiště . According to local history researcher Antonín Drachovský (1842–1914), the coins should have a weight of 80 pounds and a value of 76,000 gold convention coins. Other estimates put up to 7000 coins with a weight of one hundredweight.
The residents of Podmokl, who took the unknown coins for brass buttons, initially divided the treasure among themselves. The village blacksmith received an order from a farmer to make shoe buckles from a large number of buttons. Jewish peddlers finally revealed the true value of the find to the farmers. After the landlord Karl Egon I. zu Fürstenberg had learned of the find he was entitled to, he had the coins collected and confiscated. He was finally able to get most of the treasure. In the report on the find, 4200 coins were listed.
Karl Egon I. zu Fürstenberg had the majority of the coins melted down and minted princely Fürstenberg gold ducats from them . A small part of the find went to the Princely Collection at Donaueschingen Castle . The prince donated other Podmokler coins to various coin collections.
The numismatist Nikolaus Adaukt Voigt used the find as an opportunity to characterize the rainbow bowls found near Nischburg and Podmokl as early indigenous coins and refuted various theories of foreign origin.
literature
- Adauct Voigt a St. Germano: Write to a friend of the one at Podmokl in the Hochfürstl. Gold coins found in the villages of the Fürstenberg rule Pürglitz in Bohemia , Prague 1771.
- Karel Sklenář: Archeologie a pohanský věk , Prague 2000, pp. 42–50.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 49 ° 57 ′ 2 " N , 13 ° 42 ′ 22.5" E