BUŠETINA

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Location

City

Bušetina

County

Virovitica-Podravina

Region

Central Croatia

Country

Croatia

Lat/Long/Alt

45.926 / 17.33 / 108.3 view

Location details

Centred on field

Find spot comment

Found between Bušetina and Gradac. Ljubića on the circumstances of the findings. The place where the hoard was found was 20 minutes walk from Bušetina, on a small elevated place. A 'Roman road' it was known among the locals.

Information

2876

Permalink

https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/2876

Hoard name

BUŠETINA

Alternative names

VIROVITICA

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

1873

Total number of coins

Summary

(c. 200 silver, 2 gold coins) 31 gold and silver coins: 1 aureus, 18 denarii and 19 antoniniani/radiates: Vespasian - Valerian and Gallienus I (AD 258); silver weight: 40.6-67g

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Discovery method

Building work
Discovery depth (m)

-0.50-0.60m
Land Use

Unknown
Disposition

the Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe collection; Town Museum Virovitica, Croatia (173 coins); dispersed; Archaeological Museum Zagreb, Croatia (archives)
Comment

At the end of 1873, when digging a road between Busetina and Gradac a pot with various Roman coins ... and a head and a ring were found. " 173 coins were handed by a resident of Busetina to the policeman Jerolima Horvat, while the rest of coins were scattered. The pot, with an interesting ornament was sold in Hungary. There were circa 200 silver coins and 2 gold ones.
Closing reign (earliest)

Valerian I and Gallienus
Terminal year (earliest)

257
Closing reign (latest)

Valerian I and Gallienus
Terminal year (latest)

257
Opening year (earliest)

77
Opening year (latest)

78
Coin-level data

Entered

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Numismatic rating

Fair
Context rating

Poor
Findspot rating

Poor

Site comment

Near a Roman road. The pot was surrounded by bricks and "burnt material, which resembled iron slag." Grave?
Site class

Rural

Context

Uncertain

Containers belonging to this hoard

Ceramic vessel

Objects belonging to this hoard

Gold earring
Gold wire with a square golden chaton and intaglio green glass

Round golden bezel
Granulated edged wire, the outside of the ornament in the shape of a triangle consisting of three granules ; in the center, larger granules.

Cameo depicting the head of Medusa
Onyx (or sardonyx). The head has a blue color on a black background.

Gold ring

Gold necklace

References

Reference

Demo, Ž. - 1981 - Skupni nalaz novca i nakita 3. st. iz Bušetine kod Virovitice = Gesamtmünz- und Schmuckfund 3. Jhr. aus Bušetina bei Virovitica

Ref

214-227

Reference

Mirnik, I. A. - 1981 - Coin hoards in Yugoslavia

Ref

73, no. 246

Reference

Demo, Z. - 1982 - Münzfunde aus der Zeit Gallienus im Gebiet zwischen den Flüssen Sava und Drava. Ein Beitrag zur militärpolitischen, ökonomischen und wirtschaftlich-monetären Geschichte des südlichen Pannonien um die Mitte des 3. Jh. n. Ch.

Ref

359-362

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

503-504

Reference

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

Ref

165, no. 271

Reference

GĂZDAC 2010

Comment

GAZDAC 2010 CD-ROM/Catalogues/Hoards/Pannonia Superior_BUŠETINA

E. Paunov dataset (2015); Gazdac dataset (2015); uploaded by Jerome Mairat (Nov. 2015); updated by C. Gazdac (Oct. 2015). Coin info added by Ž. Zupan (December 2019).

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