Today I decided to remember the distant autumn of 1997, when a large medieval treasure was found in the town of Fuchsenhof in the vicinity of the picturesque Austrian town of Freistadt. As usual, it was discovered by our colleague, a man with a device named Siegfried Bauer, in a plowed field. The treasure contained about 7,000 coins, as well as 600 other items, among which were richly decorated rings, brooches, buckles and other small items.
Knowledgeable comrades quickly figured out the dating of what was found. They agreed on the opinion of 1275-1278. These years fall at the time of clarification of relations between Ottokar II, King of Bohemia, and Rudolf I, King of Germany.
The bulk of the coins — these are Viennese Pfennings and Bohemian Bracteates. In small quantities there are Bavarian, Frankish, Swabian, Italian, Hungarian coins and even a few pennies from the British Isles, London and Canterbury mints. This treasure even contained an Arab coin — similar to the dirham, which is attributed to the Ayyubid dynasty and the Acre mint. There are also older coins dating back to the era of the Roman Empire — Celtic drachmas and Roman denarii.
Stories like this happen from time to time in different places.
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