Der Fund von Queckbronn

Abstract

At Queckbronn in the district of Bad Mergentheim, a small lidded clay pot holding less than half a litre was struck in 1939 while a dung pit was being enlarged, a good two metres down beneath alluvial gravel. The pot broke; it held many hundreds of medieval silver denarii. The find was not reported at the time, but the owners kept the coins carefully apart from some ten given away; only in 1965 did the responsible authorities learn of it. Since the first six pieces submitted, of Würzburg type and from the last quarter of the twelfth century, already included an unpublished one, and finds of that period are rare in the region, the hoard promised particular interest. Cleaning was difficult because of a firmly adhering black patina, probably from soil acid in the dung pit.

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Suggested citation

Kellner, Hans-Jörg: Der Fund von Queckbronn. In: Jahrbuch für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte 16 (1966), pp. 89–97, Tf.12-13.

Subject tags

Middle Ages Hoard Mint history Franconia Germany