ALBA IULIA 1995

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Location

City

Alba Iulia

Address

1 Decembrie 1918, no. 8

County

Alba

Region

Transylvania

Country

Romania

Ancient place

Apulum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apulum_%28castra%29

Lat/Long/Alt

46.067 / 23.57 / 246.7 view

Location details

Centred on village/city

Find spot comment

Near the necropolis of the Colonia Apulum ("Podei" Hill).

Information

3135

Permalink

https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/3135

Hoard name

ALBA IULIA 1995

Alternative names

APVLVM V; Apulum V

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

Sep 1995

Total number of coins

130

Summary

130 silver coins: 109 denarii, 21 antoniniani: Commodus - Philip I (AD 244-246); silver weight: 187.6-294.9 g

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Credit

Discovery method

Gardening
Land Use

Cultivated Land
Disposition

Union Museum Alba Iulia, Romania
Finder(s)

Nechifor Popescu
Comment

The finder discover the hoard "wrapped in a textile piece of cloth while breaking a clod of earth brought in his garden from the hill near one of the Roman necropolises of the colonia Apulum"
Closing reign (earliest)

Philip I
Terminal year (earliest)

244
Closing reign (latest)

Philip I
Terminal year (latest)

246
Opening year (earliest)

184
Opening year (latest)

189
Coin-level data

Available to enter

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Numismatic rating

Excellent
Context rating

Fair
Findspot rating

Fair

Site comment

In the close vicinity of one of the Roman necropolises of colonia Apulum ("Podei" Hill).
Recovery method

Non-archaeological intervention
Site class

Urban

Context

Urban space

Period

Roman
End period

Roman

Containers belonging to this hoard

Textile purse?

All coins were wrapped in a textile piece which was lost while recovering the coins. a fragment of 1 sqcm survived.

References

Reference

Pavel, V. - 1996 - Tezaurul monetar roman imperial descoperit la Alba Iulia în 1995

Ref

63-80

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

484

Reference

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

Ref

no. 622

Reference

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

Ref

60-61; no. 29

Reference

GĂZDAC 2010

Comment

GAZDAC 2010 CD-ROM/Catalogues/Hoards/Dacia_APULUM V

Updated by Cristian Gazdac (Aug. 2016)

Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

ALBA IULIA 1995

Data not added to the map

Containers belonging to this hoard

Textile purse?

All coins were wrapped in a textile piece which was lost while recovering the coins. a fragment of 1 sqcm survived.

References

Coin Hoardsof the Roman Empire

ALBA IULIA 1995

Data not added to the map

Containers belonging to this hoard

Textile purse?

All coins were wrapped in a textile piece which was lost while recovering the coins. a fragment of 1 sqcm survived.

References

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Coin Hoards
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