49 Hoard of Coins from Gödenstorf
The treasure find from Gödenstorf consists of 8,206 silver hollow pennies, of which 6,712 have come into the possession of the museum. The majority of the coins were minted in Lüneburg. The coins, weighing seven pounds, were in a clay pot filled to the brim, which was found by a farmer in the field in 1939. Not 20 metres away from it, a treasure with 3,000 silver coins had already been discovered in 1907 - a huge fortune that had been buried in the Middle Ages for fear of looting. The owner had not been able to lift the treasure.
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Coins
Age: um 1275 n. Chr. Middle Ages
Middle Ages: The beginning of the Middle Ages is generally equated with the end of the migration of peoples in Europe, which came to a halt at about the end of the 5th or beginning of the 6th century AD, and the concomitant collapse of the Western Roman Empire. The Middle Ages stood between antiquity and modern times and are characterised by the confluence of Christian and ancient as well as Celtic, Germanic and Slavic developments. With the Renaissance and the Reformation, the modern era began at the latest at the beginning of the 16th century.
Material: Silver (?)
Location: Gödenstorf