18 June 1910 The Loštice treasure contained silver denarii

During the lowering of the access road to the cottage in Loštice, a treasure was found in 1910. It contained 274 silver denarii. They were stored in a perpendicularly placed jar and a linen bag at a depth of about sixty centimetres below the surface.

The denarii date back to the reign of Prince Svatopluk, but the jar has not survived. The treasure was located on the land belonging to the cottage number 356. The building belonged to Jaroslav Benda. The coins were in perfect condition, probably never circulated. The owner hid them near the road leading from Olomouc to East Bohemia.

One of the interesting facts is that the depot contains only two types of denarii. These are only minimally found in other treasures.

"These are type Cach 430, which has a frontal seated figure with a banner on the obverse, and a hand with a cross on the reverse, and type Cach 446 - a pair of busts facing each other with a cross in the middle on the obverse, and a bust from the right with a cross on the reverse. On the basis of current knowledge, we can say that the issue of silver denarii of type C 430 and C 446 of Prince Svatopluk was minted simultaneously and only for a very short period of time," writes the Museum of Patrimony in Olomouc about the treasure.

The average weight of the denarii is 0.446 grams. According to experts, they were hidden in the ground sometime around 1107. In Olomouc, the coins were minted at the local Přemyslid castle as early as the first half of the eleventh century.

The found coins date back to the twelfth century, but the first written mention of Loštice dates back to the second The first and second half of the thirteenth century and refers to the purchase of three popluzes near Mohelnice by Bishop Bruno of Schauenburg from Peter of Loštice. In the fourteenth century, Loštice belonged to the estates of the extended Vildenburk family, in the fifteenth century to the lords of Kunštát and was added to Bouzov Castle.

They were tied to the fate of the estate until 1585, when the then owner of the estate, Jindřich Podstatský of Prusinovice, sold them to the town of Uničov. The pottery industry in the town flourished most during this period, but written sources are practically silent about its fate. In 1353 Loštice was named an oppidum and in 1371 there is a mention of a fortress, which was to be destroyed during the wars of Margrave Jošt and Prokop.

Vladimír Goš: Medieval Pottery in Loštice, www.vmo.cz