LENGERICH II

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Location

City

Lengerich

County

Landkreis Emsland

Region

Niedersachsen

Country

Germany

Lat/Long/Alt

52.178844 / 7.872598 / 77.3 view

Location details

Centred on village/city

Information

17243

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https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/17243

Hoard name

LENGERICH II

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

1847

Total number of coins

Summary

The Lengerich II find is the second of a set of three finds, made underneath three large stones during the construction of the road Freren - Lengerich. It consisted of gold jewellery, a 10 solidi (time of Constantine I). The coins had been placed underneath a number of smaller stones, artificially piled together.

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Discovery method

Road construction
Land Use

Unknown
Closing reign (earliest)

Constantine I (RIC VII)
Terminal year (earliest)

326
Closing reign (latest)

House of Constantine (RIC VIII)
Terminal year (latest)

361
Opening year (earliest)

306
Opening year (latest)

327
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Numismatic rating

Fair
Context rating

Fair
Findspot rating

Poor

Site comment

Found by a farmer on a hill underneath three large stones. The AV coins and the jewellery were found under the first two stones, and the silver coins and the plate under the third.
Site class

Rural

Context

Uncertain

Containers belonging to this hoard

stones

The coins lay under a number of small stones, piled together.

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Reference

AFE

Ref

http://afe.dainst.org/findspot?afeid=1803

References

Reference

FMRD VII 1-3

Ref

Hoard 1034 / p. 87

Reference

Bland, R. - 1997 - Changing patterns of hoards of precious metal coins in the late Empire

Ref

table 4, no. 215

Reference

Dymowski, A. - 2020 - Roman imperial hoards of denarii from the European barbaricum

Ref

B. Hellings dataset entered by Lester Stephens (August 2020) with the assistance of a MacMillan Center Faculty Research Grant, Yale University; data validated by M. Spoerri (June 2022).

Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

LENGERICH II

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Containers belonging to this hoard

stones

The coins lay under a number of small stones, piled together.

Objects belonging to this hoard

Bracelet
Gold bracelet with pendants.

Two bangles

Four Finger rings
One spiralled shaped; two with an engraves star; one made of two wires

Studs
Four studs (vier hohlgearbeitet glockenförmige Knöpfe, oben mit filigranverzierter Querstange)

Brooch
1 AV onion brooch insribed ‘ROMAN…ERME’.

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Coin Hoardsof the Roman Empire

LENGERICH II

Data not added to the map

Containers belonging to this hoard

stones

The coins lay under a number of small stones, piled together.

Objects belonging to this hoard

Bracelet Gold bracelet with pendants.

Two bangles

Four Finger rings One spiralled shaped; two with an engraves star; one made of two wires

Studs Four studs (vier hohlgearbeitet glockenförmige Knöpfe, oben mit filigranverzierter Querstange)

Brooch 1 AV onion brooch insribed ‘ROMAN…ERME’.

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Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

Bracelet
Gold bracelet with pendants.

Four Finger rings
One spiralled shaped; two with an engraves star; one made of two wires

Studs
Four studs (vier hohlgearbeitet glockenförmige Knöpfe, oben mit filigranverzierter Querstange)

Brooch
1 AV onion brooch insribed ‘ROMAN…ERME’.