EKI

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Location

City

Eki [ეკი]

County

Senaki [სენაკი]

Region

Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti [სამეგრელო-ზემო სვანეთი]

Country

Georgia

Lat/Long/Alt

42.340712 / 42.111652 / 129.33 view

Location details

Centred on village/city

Information

5334

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https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/5334

Hoard name

EKI

Alternative names

ეკი

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

Jan 1971

Total number of coins

907

Summary

A hoard of 907 coins, found in a broken clay pot during building work carried out with a bulldozer: one Parthian drachm (Orodes I), 771 didrachms and 4 drachms of Caesarea in Cappadocia up to Geta, and 131 Roman denarii up to Alexander Severus, as well as one drachm of Caracalla attributed to Petra and dated to AD 211-12 (listed as a coin of Elagabalus from Caesarea by Dundua 2008).

The coin data of this hoard have not yet been validated and therefore are not yet visible.

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Discovery method

Building work
Land Use

Built over
Closing reign (earliest)

Severus Alexander
Terminal year (earliest)

222
Closing reign (latest)

Severus Alexander
Terminal year (latest)

235
Opening year (earliest)

-57
Opening year (latest)

-38
Coin-level data

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The coin data of this hoard have not yet been validated and therefore are not yet visible.

Numismatic rating

Good
Context rating

Poor
Findspot rating

Fair

Site class

Rural

Context

Uncertain

Containers belonging to this hoard

Clay pot

References

Reference

1976 - Coin Hoards: volume II

Ref

p. 37, no. 149

Reference

Dundua, G. F. - 1979 - Monetnye klady Gruzii. Klady rimskich monet iz ss. Ėki i Sepieti.

Comment

original publication of the hoard

Reference

Kunisz, A. - 1989 - Le monnayage d'argent de Césarée de Cappadoce sous les règnes de Trajan et d'Hadrien

Reference

Bland, R. - 1996 - The Bronze Coinage of Gordian III from Caesarea in Cappadocia

Ref

p. 65 (f)

Reference

Abramzon, M.G. - 2003 - The Gerzeul hoard of coins of Caesarea of Cappadocia in the Museum of Abkhazia.

Ref

246, no. 14

Reference

Dundua, T. - 2008 - Influx of Roman coins in Georgia.

Ref

p. 3

Comment

summary list by mint/emperor, which has been followed here.

Reference

RPC III

Ref

p. 376, no. 5

W. E. Metcalf dataset (2014, coin level data for denarii of Septimius Severus), edited by M. Spoerri (Oct. 2019). RPC reference added by M. Spoerri (Aug. 2022). Coin and find information updated by M. Spoerri (May 2023).

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EKI

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Containers belonging to this hoard

Clay pot

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Containers belonging to this hoard

Clay pot

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