TIMIȘOARA 1958

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Location

City

Timișoara

County

Timiș

Region

Transylvania

Country

Romania

Lat/Long/Alt

45.795 / 21.156 / 88 view

Location details

Centred on field

Find spot comment

Found near the city at the spot called ”Cioca Pusta”.

Information

9304

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https://129.67.241.168/hoard/9304

Hoard name

TIMIȘOARA 1958

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

1958

Total number of coins

Summary

Originally, 87 silver coins. 66 pieces were recovered: 18 antoniniani (radiates), 48 denarii: Antoninus Pius - Philip I (AD 244-247).

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Discovery method

Agricultural or drainage work
Discovery depth (m)

0.50-0.60
Land Use

Grassland, Heathland
Disposition

Collection Nussbaum, Timișoara, Romania; otherwise, dispersed
Finder(s)

Benkö, Lászlo and a friend
Comment

Split among the two finders
Closing reign (earliest)

Philip I
Terminal year (earliest)

244
Closing reign (latest)

Philip I
Terminal year (latest)

247
Opening year (earliest)

140
Opening year (latest)

141
Coin-level data

Entered

Fetching coin data

Numismatic rating

Good
Context rating

Fair
Findspot rating

Poor

Site class

Rural

Context

Uncertain

Containers belonging to this hoard

Mug

Clay mug. Broken and thrown away at the time of discovery

References

Reference

Mitrea, B. and Nussbaum, T. - 1983 - Tezaurul de monede romane de la Timișoara

Ref

149-160

Reference

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

Reference

Găzdac, C. - 2002 - Monetary circulation in Dacia and the provinces from the Middle and Lower Danube from Trajan to Constantine I (AD 306-337)

Ref

485

Reference

Petac, E. - 2002 - Observaţii privind tezaurul de la Timişoara [Observation concernant le dépôt monétaire de Timişoara]

Ref

81-84

Reference

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

Ref

no. 566

Reference

Depeyrot, G. and Moisil, D. - 2008 - Les trésors de deniers et d'antoniniens de Gordien III à Aurélien en Roumanie

Ref

122-123; no. 63

URI 1

http://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/reference/118

URI 2

Comment

The presumptive findspot of the hoard.

Uploaded by C. Gazdac (Jul. 2017); coin-level data provided by M. Ball (Dec. 21) and C. Gazdac (Feb. 2022).

Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

TIMIȘOARA 1958

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Containers belonging to this hoard

Mug

Clay mug. Broken and thrown away at the time of discovery

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Coin Hoardsof the Roman Empire

TIMIȘOARA 1958

Data not added to the map

Containers belonging to this hoard

Mug

Clay mug. Broken and thrown away at the time of discovery

References

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