LA MEILLERAIE-TILLAY

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Location

City

La Meilleraie-Tillay

County

Vendée

Region

Pays de la Loire

Country

France

Lat/Long/Alt

46.741536 / -0.847544 / 116.98 view

Location details

Centred on village/city

Information

5979

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Hoard name

LA MEILLERAIE-TILLAY

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

1914

(to)

1918

Total number of coins

376

Summary

The hoard comprised a broken ceramic vessel containing several 100 bronze Iron Age coins. Chauvet catalogued 377. Although the tpq was originally fixed at 12-10 BC, the presence of a semis from Lyon may suggest a date between AD 10 and 14. The hoard was found by a farmer cutting hay.

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Discovery method

Agricultural or drainage work
Land Use

Cultivated Land
Disposition

Sold to B. Ledain, Daerocq and Rollin et Feuardent, the big coin dealers i Paris; the Lot Ledain in the municipal library in Poitiers (Roman coins); Musee Grandes Ecoles, Poitiers, France
Finder(s)

Daniel Deladouespe
Closing reign (earliest)

Augustus
Terminal year (earliest)

10
Closing reign (latest)

Augustus
Terminal year (latest)

14
Coin-level data

Not available

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Numismatic rating

Fair
Context rating

Poor
Findspot rating

Poor

Site class

Rural

Context

Uncertain

Containers belonging to this hoard

Vessel

The vessel was broken. Sherds of the vessel were not preserved.

Objects belonging to this hoard

Disc
A copper disc with smooth surfaces

Disc
A lead disc with smooth surfaces

Disc
9 half discs. No information about metallic composition.

References

Reference

Chauvet, G. - 1922 - Monnaies gauloises. La cachette de la Meilleraie-Tillay (Vendée)

Ref

661-699

Reference

Chauvet, G. - 1922 - Découverte de monnaies gauloises à la Meilleraie-Tillay (Vendée)

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10-14

Comment

summary of earlier article

Reference

Chauvet, G. and Gaillard, H. - 1924 - Inventaire des objets entrés dans les musées de la Société pendant l'année 1922

Ref

317; no. 4796

Reference

Mitard, P.-H. - 1957 - Monnaie de bronze des Pictons ayant l'aspect de l'or

Ref

107-108

Comment

[VIRETIOS]

Reference

Colbert De Beaulieu, J.-B. - 1958 - (La Meilleraie-Tillay)

Ref

322

Reference

Colbert De Beaulieu, J.-B. - 1959 - [La Meilleraie-Tillay]

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228

Comment

[SEDVLLVS]

Reference

Colbert De Beaulieu, J.-B. - 1959 - (La Meilleraie-Tillay)

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215-216

Comment

[CONNOS EPILLOS]

Reference

Colbert De Beaulieu, J.-B. - 1960 - La légende lue URDO-RI

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383

Reference

Mitard, P.-H. - 1969 - Monnaie gauloise trouvées à Vendeuvre-du-Poitou (Vienne): proposition d'attribution aux Pictons des monnaies de ce type

Ref

390-391

Comment

[type DAG 154]

Reference

Scheers, S. - 1969 - Les monnaies de la Gaule inspirées de celles de la République romaine

Ref

32, 132-133

Comment

[CONNOS EPILLOS]

Reference

Colbert de Beaulieu, J.-B. - 1973 - Traité de numismatique celtique 1. Méthodologie des ensembles

Ref

240-241, 253, 325-326; 345; 360

Comment

[error - gives total as 420 bronzes]

Reference

Colbert De Beaulieu, J.-B. - 1973 - Chronologie des bronzes gaulois et British potin coins

Ref

12-13; 19, no. 36

Reference

Nash, D. - 1978 - Settlement and coinage in Central Gaul c. 200-50 B.C.

Ref

208

Comment

[ABVDOS]; P. 256 [type DAG 154]; p. 257 [VIREDIOS]; p. 258 [ATECTORI]; p. 259 [CONTOVTOS]; p. 261 [VRDORI]; p. 361 no. 50 [error gives total as 420 bronzes]

Reference

Hiernard, J. - 1982 - La circulation des dernières monnaies celtiques en Poitou et Saintonge

Ref

635-637; nos. 21, 23, 24

Reference

TAF III

Ref

17 (Vendée)

Updated by C. Gazdac (Apr. 2020).

Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

LA MEILLERAIE-TILLAY

Data not added to the map

Containers belonging to this hoard

Vessel

The vessel was broken. Sherds of the vessel were not preserved.

Objects belonging to this hoard

Disc
A copper disc with smooth surfaces

Disc
A lead disc with smooth surfaces

Disc
9 half discs. No information about metallic composition.

References

Coin Hoardsof the Roman Empire

LA MEILLERAIE-TILLAY

Data not added to the map

Containers belonging to this hoard

Vessel

The vessel was broken. Sherds of the vessel were not preserved.

Objects belonging to this hoard

Disc A copper disc with smooth surfaces

Disc A lead disc with smooth surfaces

Disc 9 half discs. No information about metallic composition.

References

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Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

Disc
A copper disc with smooth surfaces

Disc
A lead disc with smooth surfaces

Disc
9 half discs. No information about metallic composition.