AUTHIEUX 1984

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Location

City

Authieux

County

Eure

Region

Normandie

Country

France

Lat/Long/Alt

48.899 / 1.234 / 146.69 view

Location details

Centred on village/city

Information

3981

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Hoard name

AUTHIEUX 1984

Alternative names

AUTHIEUX II

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

Oct 1984

Total number of coins

1091

Summary

1,091 coins placed in a cloth and a ceramic vessel: aureus, denarii, antoniniani (radiates), imitations: Septimius Severus to Diocletian/Maximian I (tpq. AD 297); silver weight: 204.0-2827.6 g. Together were found three silver rings.

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Discovery method

Agricultural or drainage work
Land Use

Cultivated Land
Disposition

Cabinet des Médailles, Paris, France
Closing reign (earliest)

Diocletian (RIC V)
Terminal year (earliest)

293
Closing reign (latest)

Maximian (RIC V)
Terminal year (latest)

294
Opening year (earliest)

197
Opening year (latest)

197
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Numismatic rating

Excellent
Context rating

Poor
Findspot rating

Poor

Site comment

Found wrapped in a piece of coarse cloth cut into strips, all contained within a broken ceramic vessel
Site class

Rural

Context

Uncertain

Containers belonging to this hoard

Vessel and a coarse

A coarse cloth cut into strips.. The vessel was destroyed at the time of discovery

Objects belonging to this hoard

Silver ring
With bezel inscribed ‘X[ ]/AVGVP/VT(E or F)P’

Silver ring
Small with a rectangular bezel.

Silver ring
Octagonal, no bezel, with geometric decoration.

References

Reference

Hollard, D. - 1989 - La trouvaille des Authieux (II): Un trésor mixte contemporain de la réforme de Dioclétien

Ref

79-112

Reference

Brenot, C. and Loriot, X. - 1992 - L'or monnayé III: Trouvailles de monnaies d'or dans l'Occident romain. Actes de la Table Ronde tenue à Paris les 4 et 5 décembre 1987

Ref

271, no. 52

Reference

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

Ref

no. 1071

G. Green (October 2017); updated by C. Gazdac (Apr. 2018).

Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

AUTHIEUX 1984

Data not added to the map

Containers belonging to this hoard

Vessel and a coarse

A coarse cloth cut into strips.. The vessel was destroyed at the time of discovery

Objects belonging to this hoard

Silver ring
With bezel inscribed ‘X[ ]/AVGVP/VT(E or F)P’

Silver ring
Small with a rectangular bezel.

Silver ring
Octagonal, no bezel, with geometric decoration.

References

Coin Hoardsof the Roman Empire

AUTHIEUX 1984

Data not added to the map

Containers belonging to this hoard

Vessel and a coarse

A coarse cloth cut into strips.. The vessel was destroyed at the time of discovery

Objects belonging to this hoard

Silver ring With bezel inscribed ‘X[ ]/AVGVP/VT(E or F)P’

Silver ring Small with a rectangular bezel.

Silver ring Octagonal, no bezel, with geometric decoration.

References

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Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

Silver ring
With bezel inscribed ‘X[ ]/AVGVP/VT(E or F)P’

Silver ring
Small with a rectangular bezel.

Silver ring
Octagonal, no bezel, with geometric decoration.