Silver hoard from Kukruse
The silver hoard of Kukruse (German Kuckers ) in the Ida-Viru district in Estonia was collected because the finds were no longer in their original place. The original context of the hoard is therefore unknown. The treasure from the Late Viking Age consisted of non-monetary silver and 374 coins . A large number of coin treasures have been found in Ida-Viru County, Kohtla-Järve Region. The most notable of them are Erra-Liiva I and II, Edise, Kohtla I and II, Kohtla-Käva, Puru III and recent finds from Kukruse.
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318 coins (85%) were German coins, 36 (1.9%) English pennies , eight (2.1%) Islamic dirhams , seven (1.9%) Danish and four (1.1%) Swedish denarii and one (0.3%) was a Norwegian coin.
Such a composition is typical of the Baltic treasure finds of this time. However, the time distribution of the coins is somewhat atypical. You can see two chronological “stratifications”, with coins from the late 11th century being placed on top of a row of coins from the first half. The youngest datable coin was the Norwegian one, minted under King Magnus Berrføtt (1093–1103). Therefore, the treasure cannot have been deposited before 1093. It was probably dumped at the end of the 11th century. The phenomenon can also be observed in some other depots, e.g. B. in the Estonian hoard of Kose and Kohtla-Käva , in the Swedish hoard of Johannishus ( Scania ) and in the Danish hoard of Store Frigård (on Bornholm - deposited after 1106).
See also
literature
- Hendrik Mäkeler: Viking Age Money Circulation in the Baltic Sea Region - New Perspectives. In: Quaestiones Medii Aevi Novae 10, 2005, pp. 121-149. ( Digital version , PDF 2.1 MB)
- Ivar Leimus: Finds of Byzantine coins in Estonia . In: M. Wołoszyn (Ed.): Byzantine Coins in Central Europe between the 5th and 10th Century . Krakau 2008, pp. 1–17 ( digitized version ).