CARPIGNAGO

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Location

City

Carpignago

County

Pavia

Region

Lombardia

Country

Italy

Lat/Long/Alt

45.252 / 9.13 / 88.87 view

Location details

Centred on field

Find spot comment

Near the rail station Certesa (di Pavia).

Information

4464

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https://129.67.241.168/hoard/4464

Hoard name

CARPIGNAGO

Alternative names

CARPIGNANO

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

31 Dec 1909

Total number of coins

Summary

17 gold coins, all of Honorius: 13 solidi, 4 tremisses (AD 422-423). Gold weight: 63.85g.

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Discovery method

Building work
Land Use

Built over
Disposition

Museo Civico di Pavia, Italy
Comment

During the work at the Nocca-Spada furnace.
Closing reign (earliest)

Honorius (RIC X)
Terminal year (earliest)

422
Closing reign (latest)

Honorius (RIC X)
Terminal year (latest)

423
Opening year (earliest)

395
Opening year (latest)

402
Coin-level data

Entered

Fetching coin data

Numismatic rating

Good
Context rating

Poor
Findspot rating

Poor

References

Reference

Kent, J. - 1994 - The Roman Imperial Coinage : 10. The divided Empire and the fall of the western parts AD 395-491

Ref

p. cvii

Reference

Bland, R. - 1997 - Changing patterns of hoards of precious metal coins in the late Empire

Ref

table 4, no. 148

Reference

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

Ref

no. 1554

URI 1

https://archive.org/details/notiziedegliscav08realrich/page/n9

URI 2

Comment

Torques and the rings

Updated by C. Gazdac (May 2019).

Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

CARPIGNAGO

Data not added to the map

Objects belonging to this hoard

Gold toques (necklace)
Thick wire with a knot at the ends.

Seal gold ring (Torani?)
With monogram (Torani?)

Gold ring
Head of raw manufacture incised.

Small gold ring
A running lion as decoration

References

Coin Hoardsof the Roman Empire

CARPIGNAGO

Data not added to the map

Objects belonging to this hoard

Gold toques (necklace) Thick wire with a knot at the ends.

Seal gold ring (Torani?) With monogram (Torani?)

Gold ring Head of raw manufacture incised.

Small gold ring A running lion as decoration

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Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

Gold toques (necklace)
Thick wire with a knot at the ends.

Seal gold ring (Torani?)
With monogram (Torani?)

Gold ring
Head of raw manufacture incised.

Small gold ring
A running lion as decoration