The pile includes more than 900 silver denarii — the denarius was the standard coin of the early Roman Empire — and weighs almost 7 pounds (3.1 kilograms).
Archaeologists think the hoard was buried at the time of the Emperor Hadrian, who ruled from A.D. 117 to 138, because the most recent coin was minted in 124 or 125.
The coins span more than 300 years. The earliest were minted during the Roman Republic and the latest coin dates to the reign of the Emperor Hadrian. (Image credit: Marcel Zanjani/LVR-Office for the Preservation of Archaeological Monuments in the Rhineland)
The statement praised the metal detectorist, Oliver Riedl, who found the hoard and stopped digging after unearthing 15 of the coins. At that point, his metal detector signaled that something much larger was hiding underground.
Riedl is licensed by the state to use his metal detector and has been trained by regional archaeological authorities, the statement said. (Illegal metal detectorists also operate in Germany, but are known to often disrupt the archaeological value of their finds).
Erich Claßen, the head of archaeology for the Rhineland regional government, said it seemed that the original owner collected most of the coins in about A.D. 100, but didn't actually bury them until Hadrian's time.
Most coins in the buried hoard date to the time of the Flavian emperors. This one is adorned with the likeness of Domitian, who ruled from A.D. 81 to 96. (Image credit: Marcel Zanjani/LVR-Office for the Preservation of Archaeological Monuments in the Rhineland)But whoever buried it never came back. "It is possible that the owner died beforehand without being able to pass on the knowledge of the coins," Claßen said.
Buried treasure
He told Live Science in an email that the location suggested when the hoard had been purposefully buried: "In this case, we can cautiously assume that the hoard was buried not long after the most recent coin was minted," Pilekić said.
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