Even then, the treasure was not a cat piss, according to Cruysheer and De Groot, it was added together about 2400 Denarii, almost eleven times the annual salary of an ordinary Roman soldier. You don’t just put that in the ground. Tessa de Groot, from the National Service for Cultural Heritage, therefore does not think that someone is lost, because it is far too much for that. It is also possible that the coins are consciously hidden for later – “because you had no banks at that time”. But maybe it was a sacrifice to thank the gods.
Bunnikse Muntchat was probably spoils of war, but why was it there?
