BOTOȘANI AREA

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Location

County

Botoșani

Region

Moldova

Country

Romania

Lat/Long/Alt

47.746 / 26.667 / 166.54 view

Location details

Unknown / uncertain find spot

Information

4541

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Hoard name

BOTOȘANI AREA

Alternative names

BOTOSHANY

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

(to)

1917

Total number of coins

Summary

A silver fluted bowl and three silver spoons are said to have been found with coins of Theodosius II and Valentinian III.

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Discovery method

Unknown
Land Use

Unknown
Disposition

State Historical Museum, Moscow (inv.no. 42421)
Closing reign (earliest)

Valentinian III
Terminal year (earliest)

425
Closing reign (latest)

Valentinian III
Terminal year (latest)

455
Opening year (earliest)

408
Opening year (latest)

450
Coin-level data

Not available

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Numismatic rating

Poor
Context rating

Poor
Findspot rating

Poor

Site class

Uncertain

Context

Uncertain

Objects belonging to this hoard

Bowl
Fluted silver bowl. One stamp showing Tyche standing left. Below ‘CONS’. Weight not given. One square stamp containing a Tyche seated in profile to the left. She wears a helmet and holds an unidentified object in her right hand and a sceptre (?) in her left. Her foot rests upon a ship’s prow. In the left-hand corner a cross is engraved and, along the left side, the letters AIO. Beneath the figure: CONS. The stamp was damaged when work was done around the centring point and the bow! must, therefore, have been stamped before it was finished.

Spoon
An elongated oval bowl, a closed disc (discus) connecting the bowl and the handle, and a handle that is first octagonal and then circular in cross-section. The handle is unsegmented, tapers to a point, and is soldered onto the disc as a separate component. Type: Desana subgroup 2.2

References

Reference

Rosenberg, M. - 1928 - Der Goldschmiede Merkzeichen: Ausland und Byzanz

Ref

620-621

Reference

Dodd, E.C. - 1961 - Byzantine Silver Stamps

Ref

235, no. 83

Reference

Bank, A.V. - 1966 - Византийское искусство в собраниях Советского Союза [Byzantine Art in the Collections of the USSR]

Ref

346

Reference

Hauser, R.S. - 1992 - Spätantike und frühbyzantinische Silberlöffel. Bemerkungen zur Produktion von Luxusgütern im 5. bis 7. Jahrhundert

Ref

106-107, nos. 66-68

Updated by Cristian Gazdac (Aug. 2016). Objects disaggregated by M. Spoerri (Feb. 2025). Updated and corrected by C. Gazdac (July 2026).

Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

BOTOȘANI AREA

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Objects belonging to this hoard

Spoon
An elongated oval bowl, a closed disc (discus) connecting the bowl and the handle, and a handle that is first octagonal and then circular in cross-section. The handle is unsegmented, tapers to a point, and is soldered onto the disc as a separate component. Type: Desana subgroup 2.2

Spoon
An elongated oval bowl, a closed disc (discus) connecting the bowl and the handle, and a handle that is first octagonal and then circular in cross-section. The handle is unsegmented, tapers to a point, and is soldered onto the disc as a separate component. Type: Desana subgroup 2.2

Spoon
An elongated oval bowl, a closed disc (discus) connecting the bowl and the handle, and a handle that is first octagonal and then circular in cross-section. The handle is unsegmented, tapers to a point, and is soldered onto the disc as a separate component. Type: Desana subgroup 2.2

References

Coin Hoardsof the Roman Empire

BOTOȘANI AREA

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Objects belonging to this hoard

Spoon An elongated oval bowl, a closed disc (discus) connecting the bowl and the handle, and a handle that is first octagonal and then circular in cross-section. The handle is unsegmented, tapers to a point, and is soldered onto the disc as a separate component. Type: Desana subgroup 2.2

Spoon An elongated oval bowl, a closed disc (discus) connecting the bowl and the handle, and a handle that is first octagonal and then circular in cross-section. The handle is unsegmented, tapers to a point, and is soldered onto the disc as a separate component. Type: Desana subgroup 2.2

Spoon An elongated oval bowl, a closed disc (discus) connecting the bowl and the handle, and a handle that is first octagonal and then circular in cross-section. The handle is unsegmented, tapers to a point, and is soldered onto the disc as a separate component. Type: Desana subgroup 2.2

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Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

Spoon
An elongated oval bowl, a closed disc (discus) connecting the bowl and the handle, and a handle that is first octagonal and then circular in cross-section. The handle is unsegmented, tapers to a point, and is soldered onto the disc as a separate component. Type: Desana subgroup 2.2

Spoon
An elongated oval bowl, a closed disc (discus) connecting the bowl and the handle, and a handle that is first octagonal and then circular in cross-section. The handle is unsegmented, tapers to a point, and is soldered onto the disc as a separate component. Type: Desana subgroup 2.2

Spoon
An elongated oval bowl, a closed disc (discus) connecting the bowl and the handle, and a handle that is first octagonal and then circular in cross-section. The handle is unsegmented, tapers to a point, and is soldered onto the disc as a separate component. Type: Desana subgroup 2.2