Silver bars from Dierstorf

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The three silver bars from Dierstorf were found in 1888 in the Huddestorf district of Dierstorf, in Raddestorf in the Nienburg / Weser district in Lower Saxony . They lay in the former bed of the Weser , under the sward and were stacked on top of each other. The Roman silver bars are wider and thinner at the ends than in the middle. A piece of silver was welded into two so that they could reach their target weight. They are unique in Lower Saxony and evidence of the emergence of the hack silver currency in Northern Europe in the early Middle Ages . The bars were made no later than AD 418. The find is unique in Lower Saxony.

Finds of silver bars from different periods are known from Northern Europe and the Danube region. The silver bar find in Peine dates back to the 14th century. It was made in 1954 on a plot of land on Stederdorfer Strasse. It consists of 45 complete and numerous half and quartered silver bars, a total of 63 pieces. They bear the delicacy stamps and city stamps of Braunschweig and were recognized as a means of payment.

description

The first bar measures 114 × 77 mm, weighs 299.73 g, and was made in Rome . The back is smooth, the front has four stamps:

  • a circular picture stamp with VRBS ROMA in a pearl circle and the seated Roma
  • two rectangular stamps with CAND and PA VLI
  • a stamp with three half-length portraits depicting a woman ( Galla Placidia ) on the left , the emperor ( Theodosius II ) in the middle and a boy ( Valentinian III ) on the right.

The second bar measures 108 × 71 mm, weighs 309.5 g, and was manufactured in Trier . The back is smooth, on the front there is a rectangular stamp with the two-line inscription: OF.PRIMVS.TR.PIVS.PI.

The third bar measures 113 × 78 mm, weighs 309.81 g, and also comes from Trier. The front bears the three-line stamp: / / .PR1.SCI. TR.PS ': - P.1.

The bars had a monetary function. They have been tested in the state mint, bear (bars 1 and 3) the name of the responsible official and have the same fineness as silver coins.

literature

  • Frank Berger : The coins found in the Roman period in Germany Section VII (Lower Saxony and Bremen), Volumes 4–9 (Hanover - Lüneburg - Braunschweig - Hildesheim - Stade - Bremen), Berlin 1988.
  • Hans-Jürgen Häßler : Prehistory and early history in Lower Saxony . Nikol Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 2002, page 503.

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