Posted 09/09/2018 8:28 pm
From what I can see in the close-up picture, the one most clearly identifiable is an AV solidus of Honorius, and I can see mint marks on others for Constantinople and Ravenna.
There appear to be 200-400 coins in the jar.
Based on the flat base, plain design and color, this is an urn, possibly funerary, but given the uncertainty of the fate of the Empire in the time of Honorius, it may have also been cached away by a merchant or upper-class citizen as a sort of "savings account" or a dowry, or to prevent its being looted by invading armies or confiscated by the military or the Emperors.
These coins were found in Como. Como (Novum Comum) was founded at its present location by Julius Caesar in the 1st century BC. Como and the surrounding area was captured by the Lombards (Longobardi) in the late 6th c. and again by Charlemagne in the late 8th c.
We may never know exactly, but speculation is part of the fun!
There appear to be 200-400 coins in the jar.
Based on the flat base, plain design and color, this is an urn, possibly funerary, but given the uncertainty of the fate of the Empire in the time of Honorius, it may have also been cached away by a merchant or upper-class citizen as a sort of "savings account" or a dowry, or to prevent its being looted by invading armies or confiscated by the military or the Emperors.
These coins were found in Como. Como (Novum Comum) was founded at its present location by Julius Caesar in the 1st century BC. Como and the surrounding area was captured by the Lombards (Longobardi) in the late 6th c. and again by Charlemagne in the late 8th c.
We may never know exactly, but speculation is part of the fun!
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"Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis
Edited by paralyse
09/09/2018 8:51 pm
09/09/2018 8:51 pm
with Finn.
