Overview
- The coin went on view Wednesday at PETRI Berlin in the first-floor "Current Finds" case.
- A 13-year-old discovered it on a farm field in Spandau, marking the first recorded Greek antiquity found within Berlin.
- Specialists dated the bronze to about 281–261 BC and linked it to the Ilion mint of ancient Troy, with Athena shown on both sides.
- A site survey found cremation remains, pottery and a bronze double button that identify a Bronze or early Iron Age burial field later reused in Roman and Slavic periods.
- Researchers say the coin’s route north is unknown, and its low value and grave context point to a symbolic deposit rather than use as money.