Two metal detectorists stumbled one Cache van Coins According to European officials, date from a unique discovery in a unique discovery.
The Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands has announced the discovery, which consists of 404 Silver and gold coins, In a press release of January 27. The cache is a mixture of Roman and British coins, making the discovery particularly unusual.
A few metal detectorists named Gert-Jan Messelaar and Reinier Koelink found the coins in Bunnik, which is located in the province of Utrecht, in the fall of 2023. Although the coins had been in possession for months, they were not up to now publicly revealed.
The 42 British coins, which historians call “Staters”, were beaten between 5 BC and 43 AD and were made of gold, silver and copper. The name Cunobeline, a British king ruling from 9 to 43 AD, was described on the coins.
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A few metal detectorists found hundreds of coins that go back to biblical times. (Istock/Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (RCE))
A total of 288 of the coins were Roman and were beaten between 200 BC and 47 AD. The “youngest” Roman coins date from Emperor Claudius, where archaeologists discovered that some of the coins were never in circulation.
“A total of 72 Roman Golden Coins (goldensingle aureus) were found, dating from 19 BC to 47 AD, “The press release, which was translated from Dutch, reads.” Two of the gold coins were beaten with the same stamp and were unused – they show no signs of wear. The owner apparently received them from a pile of freshly beaten coins. “
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Most coins were Roman, while a large part came from the pre-Roman Great Britain. (Cultural Heritage Office of the Netherlands (RCE))
Officials explained that the coins were started at the moment the coins were beaten, Roman troops on the North Sea had begun to conquer the Britannic Islands. Experts believe that the coins belonged to Roman soldiers who brought them back after a mission in Great Britain.
“It is likely that the coins were brought back to Bunnik by reducing Roman soldiers from Britannia after the first conquests: the Roman coins as a wage and the British as a war boat,” explained the statement.
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The discovery of the coins is the first of its kind on mainland Europe. (Cultural Heritage Office of the Netherlands (RCE))
In the press release, the RCE noted that the discovery “supports the crucial role of the lower Germanic limes in the Roman conquest of Britannia.” De Limoenen refer to the border of the Roman Empire, distinguished from Germania Inferior and Germania Magna.
Not only is the archaeological discovery The largest of its kind made in Utretch, it is the only Roman-British Munthamstonkteking on mainland Europe-a similar cache was found in the United Kingdom.
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A representation of ancient Romans in England around 77 AD (Istock)
“These coins are a unique combination of both Roman and British coins, buried in the northern border region of the Roman Empire (the lower Germanic limes), which ran through the Netherlands at the time,” said the explanation. “Such a Roman-British currency has never been created on the European mainland.
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