German penny from Augsburg

A penny struck in Augsburg, present-day Germany, in the Bavarian region. The coin was struck by Eberhard (Eppo) I, who served as the bishop of Augsburg from 1029 to 1047, together with Emperor Conrad II. On the front of the coin is a cross with a single dot at the end of each arm and the letters K-V-O-И at the corners, which refer to Conrad II, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire of Germany from 1024 to 1039. On the back is a picture of a five-column church.

The coin was included in a hoard found in Kuuppala, Kurkijoki, in 1866 during the demolition of an old shed. Most of the coins were sold, but some ended up in the collections of the University of Helsinki and later in the National Museum’s Coin Cabinet collection. It has been estimated that the hoard included several hundred coins, about 50 of which are known. The coins had been hidden sometime after ca. 1050.