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LIMOGES 1801

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Location

City

Limoges

Address

Jardin d'Orsay

County

Haute-Vienne

Region

Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Country

France

Ancient place

Augustoritum

Lat/Long/Alt

45.8305 / 1.2526 / 302.39 view

Location details

Centred on field

Find spot comment

The hoard was found in the Jardin d'Orsay, in or close to the wall of the Gallo-Roman amphitheater.

Information

ID

4560

Permalink

https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/4560

Hoard name

LIMOGES 1801

Alternative names

AUGUSTORITUM; AVGVSTORITVM

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

20 Jan 1801

Total number of coins

200

Summary

Lafaurie dates the deposition of this hoard to the beginning of the fifth century, before the menace of the Vandals (letter of 28.06.1962). Circa 200 siliquae; Silver weight: c. 254.7-339.6 g. According to Kent: 'perhaps 'Vandal', probably Visigothic GLORIA'.

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Discovery method

Gardening
Land Use

Garden
Closing reign (earliest)

Theodosius I
Terminal year (earliest)

393
Closing reign (latest)

Honorius (RIC X)
Terminal year (latest)

423
Coin-level data

Not available

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Numismatic rating

Fair
Context rating

Fair
Findspot rating

Good

Site comment

The hoard was found in or close to the wall of the Gallo-Roman amphitheater.
Site class

Urban

Context

Amphitheatre

Depositional context

Wall

Period

Roman
End period

Roman

Containers belonging to this hoard

Bronze box

'A small bronze box with a cover measuring 4 cm in diameter'

References

Reference

J.-J. Juge de Saint-Martin - 1801 - Observations météorologiques faites dans le département de la Haute-Vienne depuis le 30 ventose an VII jusqu'au 1e germinal an IX

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20-23; no. 7

Reference

Legros - 1806 - Essais historiques sur Limoges

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385

Comment

(see margin)

Reference

Duroux - 1811 - Essai hist. sur la Sénatorerie de Limoges

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80-81

Reference

Allou, C.-N. - 1821 - Description des Monuments…de la Haute Vienne

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93-94

Reference

Ardant, M. - 1852 - Numismatique Limousine

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34-35

Reference

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

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no. 566

Reference

Bolin, S. - 1926 - Fynden av romerska mynt i det fria Germanien. Studier i romersk och äldre germansk historia

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172

Reference

Lafaurie, J. - 1958 - Le trésor de Chécy

Comment

Appendix 1, no. 20

Reference

Perrier, J. - 1963 - (Limoges)

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298-299

Reference

Perrier, J. - 1964 - Carte archéologique de la Gaule Romaine: Haute Vienne

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81; no. 196

Reference

Ref

TAF I. 5 (Haute-Vienne)

Reference

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

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p. cxxiii

Reference

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

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table 5, no. 374

Reference

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

Ref

no. 1650

Updated by C. Gazdac (Apr. 2020).