ID
533
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Hoard name
HANDLEY
Alternative names
Upwood Farm
Data type
Hoard
Date of discovery (from)
7 Aug 1877
Total number of coins
639
Summary
A hoard of ca. 639 Roman denarii, found in a 'crock' at Upwood Farm, near Handley, while digging up an allotment garden in 1877.
A list of 571 coins (by emperor only, see NC 1950, pp. 311-312) was made by Dr. Blackmore who himself received 464 coins of the hoard. His list is as follows: Marcus Antonius 20, Nero 2, Galba 2, Otho 4, Vitellius 3, Vespasian 60, Titus 5, Domitian 31, Nerva 19, Trajan 55, Hadrian 78, Sabina 4, Aelius 4. Pius 79, Faustian I 44, Marcus Aurelius 63, Faustian II 23, Verus 14, Lucilla 13, Commodus 36, Crispina 5, Didius Iulianus 1, Severus 1, and Domna 1. What remains of these 464 coins is now preserved in the Dorchester Museum, but only 440 coins were catalogued by Roberston (NC 1950). These are all denarii (Mark Antony - Julia Domna), except for one Lycian drachm of Trajan.