ÉVREUX 1890

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Location

City

Évreux

Address

Hôtel de Ville

County

Eure

Region

Normandie

Country

France

Ancient place

Mediolanum Aulercorum

Lat/Long/Alt

49.027 / 1.152 / 67.2 view

Location details

Centred on village/city

Information

4034

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Hoard name

ÉVREUX 1890

Alternative names

MEDIOLANUM AULECORUM; MEDIOLANVM AVLECORVM

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

23 Aug 1890

Total number of coins

110000

Summary

The hoard comprised 10 individual textile bags of coins, stored in a wooden box. Although only fragments of the textile bags survive, the way the coins have settled and corroded into 10 blocks makes it clear that they were originally stored in this way. The largest of the blocks of coins weighed 68 kilos before cleaning (and 55kg after cleaning) and the assemblage as a whole weighed 340kg after cleaning. It is estimated that the total number of coins in the hoard is 110,000. Found during the construction of the new Hôtel de Ville, in the area where the flight of steps up to the building were being constructed. The hoard was deposited (in its entirety?) in the Musée d’Évreux. Several portions of the assemblage have now been lost, but the remainder of the assemblage has been cleaned and conserved, with the exception of a single block of coins which has been preserved in its original state. TAF states that the hoard has now been deposited in the Cabinet des Médailles and a new catalogue is being produced.

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Discovery method

Building work
Discovery depth (m)

3
Land Use

Built over
Disposition

Musée d’Évreux, France
Closing reign (earliest)

Probus
Terminal year (earliest)

276
Closing reign (latest)

Probus
Terminal year (latest)

282
Opening year (earliest)

193
Opening year (latest)

211
Coin-level data

Not available

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Context rating

Fair
Findspot rating

Good

Site comment

The hoard was found at a depth of 3m below the modern ground surface and approximately 0.5m below the Gallo-Roman ground surface. Approximately 25m from the findspot, an obvious Roman building was located which had been subjected to burning.
Site class

Military

Context

Fort

Period

Roman
End period

Roman

Containers belonging to this hoard

Box

A wooden box, of which only the nails and some debris remain. The box measured approximately 1.2m in length, 0.55m in width and 0.4m in height.

Bag

One of ten coarsely woven cloth bags with leather ties which contained the hoard.

Bag

One of ten coarsely woven cloth bags with leather ties which contained the hoard.

Bag

One of ten coarsely woven cloth bags with leather ties which contained the hoard.

Bag

One of ten coarsely woven cloth bags with leather ties which contained the hoard.

Bag

One of ten coarsely woven cloth bags with leather ties which contained the hoard.

Bag

One of ten coarsely woven cloth bags with leather ties which contained the hoard.

Bag

One of ten coarsely woven cloth bags with leather ties which contained the hoard.

Bag

One of ten coarsely woven cloth bags with leather ties which contained the hoard.

Bag

One of ten coarsely woven cloth bags with leather ties which contained the hoard.

Bag

One of ten coarsely woven cloth bags with leather ties which contained the hoard.

References

Reference

Védie, G. - 1890 - Découverte d'un dépot de monnaies romaines a Evreux

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490-493

Reference

Ferray, E. - 1892 - Le trésor militaire d‘Evreux

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7-27

Reference

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

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no. 377

Reference

Coutil, L. - 1909 - Le trésor gallo-romain d'Acquigny et les trésors de monnaies romaines découverts dans le département de l'Eure

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Reference

Coutil, L. - 1921 - Archéologie gauloise, gallo-romaine, franque et carolingienne de l'Eure: IV. Arr. D'Évreux

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44-47

Reference

Mathière, J. - 1925 - La civitas des Aulerci Eburovices à l'époque gallo-romaine

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184-186, 351

Comment

No. 21 (cf. p. 296)

Reference

Doranlo, R.-E. - 1956 - La cachette monétaire romaine de Douvres

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no. 25

Reference

Callu, J.-P. - 1969 - La politique monétaire des empereurs romains, de 238 à 311

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345-346

Reference

Teitgen, J.-F., Audouze, B. & Bounoure, J. - 1972 - Restauration du trésor militaire d'Évreux

Reference

Loriot, X. - 1980 - Trésors de monnaies romaines découverts dans le département de l'Eure

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131; no. 26

Comment

(cf. p. 142-143)

Reference

Cunetio

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196

Reference

TAF IV

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30 (Eure)

Reference

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

P. Walton (2015); updated by C. Gazdac (May 2020).

Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

ÉVREUX 1890

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Containers belonging to this hoard

Box

A wooden box, of which only the nails and some debris remain. The box measured approximately 1.2m in length, 0.55m in width and 0.4m in height.

Bag

One of ten coarsely woven cloth bags with leather ties which contained the hoard.

Bag

One of ten coarsely woven cloth bags with leather ties which contained the hoard.

Bag

One of ten coarsely woven cloth bags with leather ties which contained the hoard.

Bag

One of ten coarsely woven cloth bags with leather ties which contained the hoard.

Bag

One of ten coarsely woven cloth bags with leather ties which contained the hoard.

Bag

One of ten coarsely woven cloth bags with leather ties which contained the hoard.

Bag

One of ten coarsely woven cloth bags with leather ties which contained the hoard.

Bag

One of ten coarsely woven cloth bags with leather ties which contained the hoard.

Bag

One of ten coarsely woven cloth bags with leather ties which contained the hoard.

Bag

One of ten coarsely woven cloth bags with leather ties which contained the hoard.

References

Coin Hoardsof the Roman Empire

ÉVREUX 1890

Containers belonging to this hoard

A wooden box, of which only the nails and some debris remain. The box measured approximately 1.2m in length, 0.55m in width and 0.4m in height.

One of ten coarsely woven cloth bags with leather ties which contained the hoard.

One of ten coarsely woven cloth bags with leather ties which contained the hoard.

One of ten coarsely woven cloth bags with leather ties which contained the hoard.

One of ten coarsely woven cloth bags with leather ties which contained the hoard.

One of ten coarsely woven cloth bags with leather ties which contained the hoard.

One of ten coarsely woven cloth bags with leather ties which contained the hoard.

One of ten coarsely woven cloth bags with leather ties which contained the hoard.

One of ten coarsely woven cloth bags with leather ties which contained the hoard.

One of ten coarsely woven cloth bags with leather ties which contained the hoard.

One of ten coarsely woven cloth bags with leather ties which contained the hoard.

References

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Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire