Archaeologist Matthijsen found the coin two years ago in a field in Rosmalen, where he used his metal detector to extract a complete coin hoard with a total of 389 coins. “There are all kinds of specimens, not all of them special,” says Mathijssen. “But from all kinds of different areas. For example, I found coins from Gelre and Brabant, but also France, from Trier, Cleves and Prague. And thus this silver copy from Coevorden.”
It only became clear last year after research by a coin expert in Den Bosch that it was a coin from the Drenthe fortified city.
According to Moes, the fact that the coin – with the image of a lion with a helmet – even exists is special. “Since we know that the Lords of Coevorden at that time did not actually have the right to mint coins at all. But apparently they considered themselves important enough to issue their own coin. In other words: it is actually an example of counterfeiting , struck in the tower of the castle. That might make the story even more interesting.”
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