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Metal Detecting Finds in Slovakia

1 published discovery in the Coins category from Slovakia — coins, hoards, jewellery and artefacts recovered by detectorists and archaeologists.

Coins from Slovakia

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Famous findStruck about 771 to 794 · found 2017

The Avar Woman's Coin: a silver penny of Charlemagne, worn as a pendant and buried in a Bratislava cemetery

Slovakia · Coins

In 2017 archaeologists digging ahead of a motorway at Podunajské Biskupice in Bratislava, Slovakia, found an 8th-century Avar cemetery of more than 460 graves. On one woman's chest lay a pierced silver penny of Charlemagne, struck between 771 and 794.