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APOLDU DE JOS

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Location

City

Apoldu de Jos

County

Sibiu

Region

Transylvania

Country

Romania

Lat/Long/Alt

45.88 / 23.846 / 314.17 view

Location details

Centred on village/city

Information

ID

2660

Permalink

https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/2660

Hoard name

APOLDU DE JOS

Alternative names

KISAPOLD; APOLDU MIC

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

1909

Total number of coins

206

Summary

206 silver coins: 201 denarii, 5 antoniniani (radiates): Clodius Albinus to Trebonianus Gallus (AD 251-253).

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Discovery method

Unknown
Disposition

Coin Room, National History Museum of Transylvania, Ckluj-Napoca, Romania; Hungarian National Museum, Budapest, Hungary (1 incuse denarius of Severus Alexander)
Closing reign (earliest)

Trebonianus Gallus
Terminal year (earliest)

251
Closing reign (latest)

Trebonianus Gallus
Terminal year (latest)

253
Opening year (earliest)

193
Opening year (latest)

193
Coin-level data

Available to enter

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Numismatic rating

Good
Context rating

Poor
Findspot rating

Poor

Site class

Rural

Context

Uncertain

References

Reference

Protase, D. - 1958 - Tezaurizarea antoninianului în Dacia

Ref

257

Reference

Winkler, I. - 1974 - Despre compoziţia tezaurului monetar descoperit la Apoldu de Jos

Ref

421-428

Reference

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

Reference

Suciu, V. - 2000 - Tezaure monetare din Dacia romană și postromană

Ref

22-23; no. 11

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)

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490

Reference

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

Ref

166-169; no. 78

Reference

Comment

CD-ROM/Catalogues/Hoards/Dacia_APOLDU DE JOS

C. Gazdac dataset (2015); uploaded by Jerome Mairat (Nov. 2015); updated C. Gazdac (Aug.; Sep. 2016).