Wallet found

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On 114 North Street, in front of an electrical store, I found a wallet on the sidewalk 💸💰, there was also an ID card and a driver's license in the name of "John Smith, address: 212 West, house number 48.

There was $1,200 in the wallet.

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During an archaeological excavation 70 km from my home, where in 172 the X Roman Legion was based near thermal springs and had a spa there, a Roman soldier's wallet was found (probably a higher batch).

The wallet held about 50 denarii. It was made of metal and was worn on the arm. Here is a photo and an example of what it probably looked like:

Many coins were also found in the area:

https://www.blesk.cz/clanek/815973

https://www.kudyznudy.cz/aktivity/expozice-rimskych-legii-na-palave-brana-do-rimske

https://www.facebook.com/Brana.do.rimske.rise/?locale=cs_CZ

Only for history enthusiasts.

Ivan

Very interesting and a stylish wallet too, it has a sort of 1920s type feel to it.

The coins would have been interesting, 172AD was the reign of Marcus Aurelius, the last of the 5 good emperors and there would have been coins of his and co emperor Lucius Verus who died in 170AD. Likely also coins of Antoninus Pius his predecessor and maybe Hadrian and Trajan. Sometimes though they find Roman hoards with coins going back 2 or 300 years. I would not be suprised if they could find a coin from Caesar or even Nero amongst them.

One hoard in Italy was buried around 230AD yet they had coins in it going back to the time of Calpurnius Piso (88BC), some 300 years earlier, like finding a 1710 coin in a recent grave.

One English hoard dated to 157AD had coins dating back to the Roman Republic (before 27BC), and also local British Iron Age coins (50BC - 50AD)

The Beau Street hoard in Bath had 17,500 coins dating from 274AD (Aurelian) to 32BC (Marcus Antonius or Octavian). That is over 300 years - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beau_Street_Hoard, I also read that hoards spanning such a long era was testament to how stable the currency was and the high quality or Roman coin production (Although the 3rd century saw some dreadful inflation and debasement).

Can you tell me how far these coins went back please, as I can't understand Czech?

Moneytane

Can you tell me how far these coins went back please, as I can't understand Czech?

Have a nice day, colleague.

I don't know, and they don't even write it anywhere, what the time difference is between the coins found.

There were warm mineral springs in the fortification, so the 10th legion made a spa there. The place is a short distance from our second largest city, Brno.

Considering that a soldier of the Roman Legion at that time had a salary of about 150 dinars and there were thousands of soldiers there, loss and hiding is probably the most likely.

This is the Column of Marcus Aurelius in Rome from the fight in this area against the Germanic tribes.

This is one of the coins found here, Marcus Aurelius.

This is the area now by the lake.

We only know that the Romans were at this fort for 50-100 years, so the coins can be dated to no more than 250 AD.

Interestingly, Roman coins were also found in a castle in Japan Okinawa Prefecture.

And this is also some find from the 4th century: