PLEVEN

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Location

City

Pleven [Плевен]

County

Pleven [Плевен]

Region

Country

Bulgaria

Ancient place

Storgosia

Lat/Long/Alt

43.3841 / 24.6287 / 109.21 view

Location details

Centred on village/city

Information

5293

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Hoard name

PLEVEN

Alternative names

Storgosia; Плевен

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

Dec 1922

(to)

Dec 1922

Total number of coins

4033

Summary

of 4,033 pieces, 3296 were recorded at the British Museum: 592 denarii, Domitian-Gordian III; 2704 antoniniani, Caracalla-Trajan Decius, including 2 “Divi”. The other were all antoniniani of Gordian III, Philip I, Philip II and Trajan Decius.

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Discovery method

Agricultural or drainage work
Land Use

Cultivated Land
Disposition

The British Museum, London
Finder(s)

Farmer
Comment

Found by a peasant digging in his vineyard in the outskirts of Plevna (Pleven).
Closing reign (earliest)

Trajan Decius
Terminal year (earliest)

251
Closing reign (latest)

Trajan Decius
Terminal year (latest)

251
Opening year (earliest)

92
Opening year (latest)

93
Coin-level data

Entered

Fetching coin data

Numismatic rating

Good
Rating comment

Pre-Pertinax coins still to insert.
Context rating

Poor
Findspot rating

Fair

Site class

Military

Context

Uncertain

References

Reference

Mattingly, H. and Salisbury, F.S. - 1924 - A Find of Roman Coins from Plevna in Bulgaria

Comment

List of the coins according to Cohen numbers, including average indications on weight and metallurgical analyses on copper, silver, tin and gold.

W. E. Metcalf dataset; information at hoard level added my M. Spoerri (Oct. 2017).

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