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VAULX

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Location

City

Vaulx

County

Haute-Savoie

Region

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Country

France

Lat/Long/Alt

45.94 / 5.995 / 586.35 view

Location details

Centred on field

Find spot comment

At the hamlet of Frênesat the place called Huche/Luche.

Information

ID

3034

Permalink

https://129.67.241.168/hoard/3034

Hoard name

VAULX

Alternative names

ANNECY 1859 - SURROUNDINGS

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

26 Mar 1859

Total number of coins

300

Summary

(c. 300) 143 described denarii: Nero - Septimius Severus (AD 193-211); silver weight: c. 550.3-937.7 g

Details
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Rating
Archaeological context
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Objects
References
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Credit

Discovery method

Other chance find
Land Use

Unknown
Disposition

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Chambéry , France (12 coins); the rest entered various private collections: Serand, Gaillard, Périssou etc.)
Finder(s)

Claude Jacquet
Comment

Under a sandstone fireplace.
Closing reign (earliest)

Septimius Severus
Terminal year (earliest)

193
Closing reign (latest)

Septimius Severus
Terminal year (latest)

211
Opening year (earliest)

54
Opening year (latest)

68
Coin-level data

Entered

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Numismatic rating

Fair
Context rating

Fair
Findspot rating

Fair

Site comment

Found with ceramic vessel.
Recovery method

Non-archaeological intervention
Site class

Rural

Context

Uncertain

Containers belonging to this hoard

Ceramic vessel

'found with pot'

References

Reference

Soret, F. - 1859 - Extrait d'une lettre de M. F. Soret à M. R. Chalon, président de la société numismatique.

Ref

271-275

Reference

Ref

98; no. 33

Reference

Guest, P. - 1994 - A Comparative Study of Coin Hoards from the Western Roman Empire

Reference

Hobbs, R. - 2006 - Late Roman precious metal deposits, c. AD 200-700 : changes over time and space

Updated by Cristian Gazdac (Mar. 2017); coin-level data provided by M. Ball (Oct. 21).