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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orielensis, post: 7886545, member: 96898&quot;]Just to give a point of comparison to the small hoard from Echzell that Tejas posted, the Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum in Hannover exhibits this small hoard excavated in Rassau/Suhlendorf near Uelzen. That&#039;s in northern Germany, some 60 miles south of Hamburg and far away from any former Roman settlement.</p><p><br /></p><p>The hoard contains a wild mixture of worn and corroded regular Roman asses and &quot;barbarous radiates.&quot; The curators of the museum speculate that the hoard was probably amassed for its material value in metal. The Germanic tribes didn&#039;t do mining and smelting to a relevant extent, and thus suffered from a permanent shortage of all types of metal. The theory that Roman AE coins circulated and maybe even were produced in Germania for what they physically are, i.e. small and therefore easily tradeable pieces of metal that could be melted down, therefore seems to make a lot of sense.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1360434[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1360433[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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