HERDADE DO PORTOCARRO

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Location

City

Torrão

County

Setúbal

Region

Alentejo

Country

Portugal

Lat/Long/Alt

38.254131792447 / -8.3598504327005 / 15.6 view

Location details

Centred on field

Information

12992

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Hoard name

HERDADE DO PORTOCARRO

Alternative names

PORTO CARRO

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

Jan 1974

Total number of coins

5000

Summary

5,000 antoniniani (radiates) found with more ceramic pots. Only 2,249 were available for study: Valerian I and Gallienus - Diocletian-Maximian I (AD 272).

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Discovery method

Agricultural or drainage work
Land Use

Cultivated Land
Disposition

Museu Nacional de Arqueologia, Lisboa; Museu Municipal do Bombarral; Museu Municipal Pedro Nunes, Alcácer do Sal, Portugal; private collection, Barcelona, Spain
Closing reign (earliest)

Diocletian (RIC V)
Terminal year (earliest)

292
Closing reign (latest)

Maximian (RIC V)
Terminal year (latest)

292
Opening year (earliest)

256
Opening year (latest)

257
Coin-level data

Available to enter

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Numismatic rating

Excellent
Context rating

Poor
Findspot rating

Poor

Containers belonging to this hoard

Amphoras/ Jugs

Reddish coarse. The object presented as the container raised some doubts whether it is truly one of the original containers.

References

Reference

Salgado da Rocha, M.F. - 1979 - Alguns antoniniani e aureliani de um tesouro da região de Coimbra

Ref

73-86

Comment

Separate hoard

Reference

Martínez Mira, I. - 1995 - Tesorillos del s. III d.C. en la Península Ibérica (I)

Ref

146; no. 89

Comment

Separate hoard

Reference

Ruivo, J. da S. - 2008 - Circulação monetária na Lusitânia do século III

Ref

83-165; no. 14

Reference

Martínez Chico, D. - 2020 - Los tesoros imperiales de Hispania

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319-; no. 229

David Martínez Chico (05/09/2018). Updated by C. Gazdac (Jan. 2021).

Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

HERDADE DO PORTOCARRO

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Containers belonging to this hoard

Amphoras/ Jugs

Reddish coarse. The object presented as the container raised some doubts whether it is truly one of the original containers.

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Coin Hoardsof the Roman Empire

HERDADE DO PORTOCARRO

Data not added to the map

Containers belonging to this hoard

Amphoras/ Jugs

Reddish coarse. The object presented as the container raised some doubts whether it is truly one of the original containers.

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Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire