ALBA IULIA 1997

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Location

City

Alba Iulia

Address

Brâdușei Street

County

Alba

Region

Transylvania

Country

Romania

Ancient place

Apulum

Lat/Long/Alt

46.064 / 23.564 / 242.02 view

Location details

Centred on field

Information

2619

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Hoard name

ALBA IULIA 1997

Alternative names

APVLVM VI; Apulum VI

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

1997

Total number of coins

232

Summary

The hoard comprises 232 cast denarii: a rejected series of coins depicting emperors from Vespasian to Elagabalus with a tpq of AD 218-222 or soon after.

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Discovery method

Agricultural or drainage work
Land Use

Built over
Disposition

National Union Musem, Alba Iulia, Romania (Inv.no. 7438-7673)
Finder(s)

Workers
Comment

While installing a gas pipeline
Closing reign (earliest)

Elagabalus
Terminal year (earliest)

218
Closing reign (latest)

Elagabalus
Terminal year (latest)

222
Coin-level data

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Numismatic rating

Excellent
Context rating

Fair
Findspot rating

Fair

Date of excavation (from)

1997
Recovery method

Non-archaeological intervention
Site class

Urban

Context

Uncertain

Period

Roman

Containers belonging to this hoard

Uncertain

The coins were found concreted together in one mass suggesting that they may have originally been in some form of bag or just dropped out.

References

Reference

Suciu, Viorica - 2000 - Quelques considérations sur les trésors monétaires de la Dacie romaine.

Ref

328

Reference

Depeyrot, G. and Moisil, D. - 2008 - Les trésors de deniers de Trajan à Balbin en Roumanie

Ref

286; no. 161

Reference

Găzdac, C., Oargă, O., and Alföldy-Găzdac, Á. - 2015 - It Was Supposed to Be Silver! The Scrap Coin ‘Hoard’ Apulum VI

Updated by Cristian Gazdac (Aug. 2016)

Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

ALBA IULIA 1997

Data not added to the map

Containers belonging to this hoard

Uncertain

The coins were found concreted together in one mass suggesting that they may have originally been in some form of bag or just dropped out.

References

Coin Hoardsof the Roman Empire

ALBA IULIA 1997

Data not added to the map

Containers belonging to this hoard

Uncertain

The coins were found concreted together in one mass suggesting that they may have originally been in some form of bag or just dropped out.

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Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire