SISEȘTI

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Location

City

Sisești

County

Mehedinți

Region

Oltenia

Country

Romania

Lat/Long/Alt

44.768 / 22.852 / 206.75 view

Location details

Centred on village/city

Find spot comment

On the road Drobeta - Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa, via Vulcan Pass, near a large Roman settlement of Cătunele Glogovei. At the place called ”Conacul Mirceștilor”.

Information

5324

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https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/5324

Hoard name

SISEȘTI

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

8 Apr 1915

Total number of coins

151

Summary

151 silver coins: 17 denarii, 134 antoniniani (radiates): Marcus Aurelius (Divus Antoninus Pius) - Trebonianus Gallus/Volusianus (AD 253).

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Discovery method

Agricultural or drainage work
Land Use

Cultivated Land
Disposition

The Iron Gates Region Museum Drobeta-Turnu Severin, Romania (1957)
Finder(s)

Villagers
Closing reign (earliest)

Trebonianus Gallus
Terminal year (earliest)

253
Closing reign (latest)

Trebonianus Gallus
Terminal year (latest)

253
Opening year (earliest)

196
Opening year (latest)

198
Coin-level data

Entered

Fetching coin data

Numismatic rating

Good
Rating comment

Not all the coins can be entered at the coin level as the description offers in many case the revers legend only of imperial titles but no image description.
Context rating

Fair
Findspot rating

Fair

Site comment

On the road Drobeta - Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa, via Vulcan Pass, near a large Roman settlement of Cătunele Glogovei.
Site class

Rural

Context

Road

Period

Roman
End period

Roman

Containers belonging to this hoard

Clay pot

Lost

References

Reference

Bărcăcilă, A. - 1957 - Tezaurul de monede romane de la Siseşti (Reg. Craiova)

Ref

413-416

Reference

Găzdac, C. - 2002 - Monetary circulation in Dacia and the provinces from the Middle and Lower Danube from Trajan to Constantine I (AD 306-337)

Ref

489-490

Reference

Depeyrot, G. and Moisil, D. - 2008 - Les trésors de deniers et d'antoniniens de Gordien III à Aurélien en Roumanie

Ref

175-177; no. 85

Reference

GĂZDAC 2010

Comment

GAZDAC 2010 CD-ROM/Catalogues/Hoards/Dacia_SISEȘTI

W. E. Metcalf dataset (2014); updated by Cristian Gazdac (Aug., Sep. 2016). Coin level data C. Gazdac (Mar. 2024).

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SISEȘTI

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Containers belonging to this hoard

Clay pot

Lost

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SISEȘTI

Data not added to the map

Containers belonging to this hoard

Clay pot

Lost

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