MAINZ KASTEL 1962

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Location

City

Wiesbaden

Address

Mainz-Kastel

County

Kreisfreie Stadt Wiesbaden

Region

Hessen: Regierungsbezirk Darmstadt

Country

Germany

Ancient place

Castellum Mattiacorum
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castellum_Mattiacorum

Lat/Long/Alt

50.0086305 / 8.2827325 / 87.8 view

Location details

Centred on field

Information

17027

Permalink

https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/17027

Hoard name

MAINZ KASTEL 1962

Alternative names

WIESBADEN-MAINZ-KASTEL

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

Feb 1962

Total number of coins

689

Summary

In 1962 on Zehnthofstraße a pot with handles was found in a water conduit trench, whose contents consisted of approx. 700 solidi and siliqua coins, ranging from Julian I to Constantine III. The hoard comprised also 14 objects: a brooch, a ring, metal fittings and buckles of a sheath, and some hack-silver. The analysis of the small finds shows that their owner came from far in the east and might have been a Hun. Huns were recruited around 383, after the defeat of Eugenius the Usurper, and were stationed on the Rhine

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Discovery method

Building work
Land Use

Built over
Closing reign (earliest)

Constantine III
Terminal year (earliest)

407
Closing reign (latest)

Constantine III
Terminal year (latest)

408
Opening year (earliest)

360
Opening year (latest)

361
Coin-level data

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Numismatic rating

Excellent
Context rating

Poor
Findspot rating

Good

Site class

Military

Containers belonging to this hoard

Jar/pot.

'eine rauwandige Mayener Henkelkanne'

References

Reference

FMRD V 1.2

Ref

Hoard 1296 / p. 468

Reference

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

Ref

p. clxxvi

Reference

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

Ref

table 4, no. 77

Reference

Alföldi, Maria R. - Quast, D. et al. - 2018 - Der spätantike Schatzfund von Mainz-Kastel : fremde Krieger am Rhein

B. Hellings dataset entered by Lester Stephens (July 2020) with the assistance of a MacMillan Center Faculty Research Grant, Yale University; data validated by M. Spoerri (Feb. 2021).

Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

MAINZ KASTEL 1962

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Containers belonging to this hoard

Jar/pot.

'eine rauwandige Mayener Henkelkanne'

Objects belonging to this hoard

Fibula

Untitled

Metal fittings

Buckles of a sheath

Hacksilver

References

Coin Hoardsof the Roman Empire

MAINZ KASTEL 1962

Data not added to the map

Containers belonging to this hoard

Jar/pot.

'eine rauwandige Mayener Henkelkanne'

Objects belonging to this hoard

Fibula

Untitled

Metal fittings

Buckles of a sheath

Hacksilver

References

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Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire