BÎRGĂOANI

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Location

City

Bârgăuani

County

Neamț

Region

Moldova

Country

Romania

Lat/Long/Alt

47.005 / 26.652 / 330.66 view

Location details

Centred on field

Find spot comment

The northern slope of the Chicera hill, 1.5 km from the village.

Information

5259

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https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/5259

Hoard name

BÎRGĂOANI

Alternative names

BÂRGĂUANI

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

17 Jun 1965

(to)

19 Jun 1965

Total number of coins

771

Summary

771 denarii: Nero - Marcus Aurelius (AD 179-180); Septimius Severus coin is an intruder. There were two ceramic vessels buried at 2 m one from the other at the same depth of 0.25 m.

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Discovery method

Agricultural or drainage work
Discovery depth (m)

0.25
Land Use

Cultivated Land
Disposition

National Museum of History Bucharest; Museum of History and Archaeology Piatra Neamț (Romania)
Finder(s)

Enăchioaia, Gheorghe, Guțu, Gheorghe (first vessel), Mihăilescu-Bîrliba, V. (second vessel)
Comment

Some coins may have been kept by some locals.
Closing reign (earliest)

Marcus Aurelius
Terminal year (earliest)

179
Closing reign (latest)

Marcus Aurelius
Terminal year (latest)

180
Opening year (earliest)

54
Opening year (latest)

68
Coin-level data

Entered

Fetching coin data

Numismatic rating

Fair
Rating comment

Only 28 coins can be entered at coin data level and few others based on photos.
Context rating

Good
Findspot rating

Good

Containers belonging to this hoard

Two vessels

The first vessel was probably a mug of the Carpic manufacture. Broken and dispersed at the time of discovery, it was made of grey paste and wheel-made. The second vesselis a mug of the same Carpic manufacture. H: 9.4 cm; Dmax.: 10.2; Drim: 7.9 cm; Dbottom: 5.3 cm

References

Reference

Mihăilescu-Bîrliba, V. - 1968 - Noi descoperiri de tezaure imperiale în județul Neamț

Ref

209-231

Reference

Mihăilescu-Bîrliba, V. - 1982 - Noi consideraţii privind tezaurul de la Bîrgăoani

Ref

57-63

Reference

Depeyrot, G. and Moisil, D. - 2008 - Les trésors de deniers de Trajan à Balbin en Roumanie

Ref

81-; no. 51

URI 1

URI 2

Comment

The findspot of the hoard (Mihăilescu-Birliba, V., Carpica 1, p. 209, fig. 1

W.E. Metcalf dataset (2014); updated by Cristian Gazdac (Aug. 2016; Jul. 2017; Dec. 2019). Coin-level data (Vespasian-Septimius Severus) provided by M. Ball (Dec. 21)

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BÎRGĂOANI

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Containers belonging to this hoard

Two vessels

The first vessel was probably a mug of the Carpic manufacture. Broken and dispersed at the time of discovery, it was made of grey paste and wheel-made. The second vesselis a mug of the same Carpic manufacture. H: 9.4 cm; Dmax.: 10.2; Drim: 7.9 cm; Dbottom: 5.3 cm

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Coin Hoardsof the Roman Empire

BÎRGĂOANI

Data not added to the map

Containers belonging to this hoard

Two vessels

The first vessel was probably a mug of the Carpic manufacture. Broken and dispersed at the time of discovery, it was made of grey paste and wheel-made. The second vesselis a mug of the same Carpic manufacture. H: 9.4 cm; Dmax.: 10.2; Drim: 7.9 cm; Dbottom: 5.3 cm

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