SCHWARZENACKER 1915

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Location

City

Schwarzenacker

County

Landkreis Homburg

Region

Saarland

Country

Germany

Ancient place

Schwarzenacker

Lat/Long/Alt

49.283 / 7.319 / 238.41 view

Location details

Centred on village/city

Information

3891

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https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/3891

Hoard name

SCHWARZENACKER 1915

Alternative names

SCHWARZENACKER II

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

Apr 1915

Total number of coins

4811

Summary

4811 denarii and antoniniani, found in one (or two?) urns, in the garden of the school. Coins range from Caracalla to Postumus.

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Discovery method

Other chance find
Land Use

Garden
Disposition

Pfälzisches Heimatmuseum, Speyer
Comment

FMRD attributes the burial of the hoard to the Alamannic invasion of 260.
Closing reign (earliest)

Postumus
Terminal year (earliest)

261
Closing reign (latest)

Postumus
Terminal year (latest)

269
Opening year (earliest)

215
Opening year (latest)

215
Coin-level data

Entered

Fetching coin data

Numismatic rating

Good
Context rating

Poor
Findspot rating

Good

Recovery method

Non-archaeological intervention
Site class

Rural

Context

Uncertain, Vicus

Period

Uncertain
End period

Uncertain

Containers belonging to this hoard

Urn

The hoard was found in either a single (Bernhart) urn or in two urns (Heuser)

References

Reference

Bernhart, M. - 1915 - Der Münzfund von Schwarzenacker

Ref

67-74

Comment

Publication of the coins according to Cohen.

Reference

FMRD III

Ref

Hoard 1023 / p. 42

Reference

Cunetio

Ref

197

Reference

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

W. E. Metcalf dataset (coin-level data for Philip - Aemilian). Data updated by M. Spoerri (July 2021). Brought up to coin level by R. Bennett (Sept. 2021).

Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

SCHWARZENACKER 1915

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Containers belonging to this hoard

Urn

The hoard was found in either a single (Bernhart) urn or in two urns (Heuser)

References

Coin Hoardsof the Roman Empire

SCHWARZENACKER 1915

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Containers belonging to this hoard

Urn

The hoard was found in either a single (Bernhart) urn or in two urns (Heuser)

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