This rare bronze purse was found with six #gold coins still inside in the #Celtic oppidum (settlement) at Manching.

[ninawillburger@social.anoxinon.de]

This rare bronze purse was found with six #gold coins still inside in the #Celtic oppidum (settlement) at Manching. It was originally sealed with an organic material, presumably a leather strap. The purse is rather small: 4.3x3.3 cm. The diameter of the smallest coin is 6.5mm.

Dating ca. 200 BC.
On display at Archäologische Staatssammlung München.

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#Archaeology

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@ninawillburger

Do you ever think about how those coins were last touched by a person who put them in there, maybe after buying something, in another time and place, fully expecting to take them out again later... but instead 2000 years pass before they are ever touched again?

There is something very intimate about objects like this one.

[nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social]

@ninawillburger I was just trying to imagine actually using a solid metal purse and I have to say, it must have jingled like crazy... I imagine that also would let a prospective thief know from half a mile away.

[ginevracat@toot.community]

@futurebird @juliette @ninawillburger ️

[tanavit@toot.aquilenet.fr]

@nazokiyoubinbou

And may be alerts the owner in case of loss or theft ?

@ninawillburger

[nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social]

@tanavit @ninawillburger Maybe, but it could be too late after the theft... (Plus it's harder to notice the absence of a thing than the presence of a thing.)