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ALLEX

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Location

City

Allex

County

Drôme

Region

Rhône-Alpes

Country

France

Lat/Long/Alt

44.765 / 4.915 / 173.23 view

Location details

Centred on village/city

Information

ID

3536

Permalink

https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/3536

Hoard name

ALLEX

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

1850

Total number of coins

12000

Summary

The hoard comprised two ceramic urns that contained more than 100kg of Roman coins (according to Payan-Dumoulin) or 40kg (according to Vallentin) equating to approximately 12,000 coins. Only 4,685 coins, all radiates, were catalogued: Valerian I and Gallienus - Tetricus I (AD 271-274); silver weight: 3241.0-14999.1 g.

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Credit

Discovery method

Unknown
Land Use

Unknown
Closing reign (earliest)

Tetricus I
Terminal year (earliest)

271
Closing reign (latest)

Tetricus I
Terminal year (latest)

274
Opening year (earliest)

253
Opening year (latest)

260
Coin-level data

Not available

Fetching coin data

Fetching coin data

Numismatic rating

Fair
Context rating

Poor
Findspot rating

Poor

Site class

Rural

Context

Uncertain

Containers belonging to this hoard

Urn

One of two ceramic urns in coarseware pottery in which the hoard was found. It was broken.

Urn

One of two ceramic urns in coarseware pottery in which the hoard was found. It was broken.

References

Reference

Payan-Dumoulin - 1851 - Allex

Reference

Mowat, R. - 1895 - Les ateliers monétaires impériaux en Gaule principalement de Postume a Tétricus (258-273)

Ref

155

Reference

Blanchet, A. - 1900 - Les trésors de monnaies romaines et les invasions germaniques de la Gaule

Ref

207

Comment

Findspot error

Reference

Sautel, J. - 1957 - Carte archéologique de la Gaule romaine, XI. Département de la Drôme

Ref

78; no. 96

Reference

Rémy, B. - 1985 - Les dépôts monétaires antiques du département de la Drôme

Ref

213

Comment

No. 2

Reference

Ref

15-16; no. 2

Reference

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

Reference

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

Ref

no. 626

Hobbs dataset (2015); uploaded by Jerome Mairat (Nov. 2015); data added P.Walton (2016); updated by Cristian Gazdac (Feb. 2017).