Trove of Coins Dated to Constantine the Great’s Reign Discovered
Smithsonian shares how amateur archaeologists uncovered the coins.
The timing of the coins makes the find “very important,” Reto Marti, head archaeologist at Archäologie Baselland, tells Live Science. “It will give a very detailed insight into the use of money and the circulation of coins in the time of … Constantine the Great.”
Academics generally agree that people bury coin hoards during times of great stress: for example, during the Black Death or the English Reformation. But discoveries in recent decades have led some scholars to speculate that certain caches also served as ritual offerings, “perhaps [ensuring] the wealth of a farming community … as insurance for a good harvest or good weather,” noted Current Archaeology in 2010.
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