ID
6434
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Hoard name
SCHWYZ SZ 1857
Alternative names
Schwyz Rickenbach, Rickenbach
Data type
Hoard
Date of discovery (from)
31 Mar 1857
(to)
31 Mar 1857
Total number of coins
81
Summary
Found by chance while removing stones in a slope, close to a large stone ca. 40-50 cm deep ("kaum 1 1/2 Fuss in der Erde"); Hoard of 81 coins and other objects: 2 bronze bells, 2 bowls, silver fibula, silver bracelet, and a blue glass perl. The coins and the jewellery were placed in a large bronze bowl, together with a smaller bowl containing the two bronze bells. Coins: 1 aureus, Antoninus Pius for Faustina I. (rv. PVELLAE FAVSTINIANAE = RIC III, p. 74-75, no 397-398), and 80 silver denarii: Otho (2), Vespasian (3), Domitian (7), Trajan (12), Hadrian (12), Hadrian for Sabina (1), Antoninus Pius (21), for (Diva?) Faustina I. (5), Marcus Aurelius (11), for (Diva?) Faustina II. (2), Commodus (1), Septimius Severus (3). - Half the hoard got into private hands (Bregenz), the other half was sold to England.
