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CHAPIPI

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Location

City

LLaureu

County

Asturias

Region

Asturias

Country

Spain

Lat/Long/Alt

43.323571627896 / -6.0583509909896 / 203.7 view

Location details

Centred on village/city

Find spot comment

Cave

Information

ID

4400

Permalink

https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/4400

Hoard name

CHAPIPI

Alternative names

Chapipi; Grado; Cueva de Chapipi

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

1934

Total number of coins

13

Summary

13 coins examined of 14 originally: Theodosius I - Honorius/Constantine III; gold weight: 51.95g. Together was found a gold ring.

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Coins Summary
Coins
Rating
Archaeological context
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Objects
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Credit

Discovery method

Other chance find
Land Use

Cave
Disposition

Museo Arqueológico de Asturias, Oviedo; Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid, Spain
Closing reign (earliest)

Constantine III
Terminal year (earliest)

408
Closing reign (latest)

Constantine III
Terminal year (latest)

423
Opening year (earliest)

378
Opening year (latest)

383
Coin-level data

Entered

Fetching coin data

Fetching coin data

Numismatic rating

Excellent
Context rating

Poor
Findspot rating

Poor

Site comment

Found in the cave of Chapipi.
Site class

Rural

Context

Natural feature

Objects belonging to this hoard

Gold ring.
The rectangular section ring forms a whole with the box at the top, in which one or several stones, which have been lost, would be set. Dated at the end of the 4th century AD.

References

Escortell Ponsoda, M. - 1973 - El tesorillo romano-bizantino de Chapipi

Ref

43-54

Reference

Bost, J.-P., Campo, M., Gurt E. and Josep M. - 1983 - Hallazgos de aurei y solidi en la Península Ibérica: introducción a su circulación en la época imperial

Ref

158-159; no. 89

Reference

Bost, J-P., Campo, M., Colls, D., Guerrero, V., and Mayet, F. - 1992 - L'épave Cabrera III (Majorque). Échanges commerciaux et circuits monétaires au milieu du IIIe siècle après Jésus-Christ

Ref

51, no.89

Reference

Kent, J. - 1994 - The Roman Imperial Coinage : 10. The divided Empire and the fall of the western parts AD 395-491

Ref

p. xciii

Reference

Bland, R. - 1997 - Changing patterns of hoards of precious metal coins in the late Empire

Ref

table 4, no. 131

Reference

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

Ref

no. 1490

Reference

Martínez Chico, D. - 2020 - Los tesoros imperiales de Hispania

Ref

584-585; no. 402

Updated by C. Gazdac (Jan. 2021).