KIRCHMATTING

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Location

City

Kirchmatting

County

Landkreis Straubing-Bogen

Region

Bayern: Niederbayern

Country

Germany

Lat/Long/Alt

48.812 / 12.612 / 345 view

Location details

Centred on village/city

Information

3085

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https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/3085

Hoard name

KIRCHMATTING

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

1937

Total number of coins

1169

Summary

A hoard of 1167 denarii and 2 antoniniani found in the south-wester of the Hungerbergacker property during spring 1937. FMRD associates the deposition of the hoard with the Alamannic invasions of Raetia in AD 233 and the assemblage is notable for the high proportion of eastern mints. Coins range from the late Republic to Severus Alexander.

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Discovery method

Agricultural or drainage work
Land Use

Cultivated Land
Disposition

Museum Straubing (ca. half of the coins)
Comment

The find passed through many hands until coming to the attention of Prof. K. Keim. Thereafter, around half of the 1169 coins were acquired by the Straubing Museum, with the remainder dispersed among private collections. The list of the hoard was first compiled by M. Bernhart in 1937-38, but FMRD found inaccuracies in Bernhart's records, and so only the identity of the specimens still found in the Straubing Museum may be regarded as certain.
Closing reign (earliest)

Severus Alexander
Terminal year (earliest)

230
Closing reign (latest)

Severus Alexander
Terminal year (latest)

235
Opening year (earliest)

-32
Opening year (latest)

-31
Coin-level data

Entered

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Numismatic rating

Good
Rating comment

The catalogue lists 1169 coins, but no. 245 is omitted. It can be inferred from its position in the catalogue, that the missing coin belongs to the reign of Septimius Severus. Also the identification of the coins not in the Straubing Museum is uncertain.
Context rating

Poor
Findspot rating

Fair

Site class

Rural

Context

Uncertain

Containers belonging to this hoard

Clay pot

References

Reference

Bernhart, M. - 1937 - Der Römerfund von Kirchmatting

Reference

FMRD I 2

Ref

2116, pp. 173-200

Reference

Guest, P. - 1994 - A Comparative Study of Coin Hoards from the Western Roman Empire

W. E. Metcalf dataset; K. Huber for data up to and including Nero. Lester Stephens (October 2019)—Update, inputted at coin level by R. Bennett (October-November 2020)

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