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AMBENAY

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Location

City

Ambenay

Address

Le Bout du Bois

County

Eure

Region

Normandie

Country

France

Lat/Long/Alt

48.84 / 0.73 / 194.01 view

Location details

Centred on village/city

Information

ID

5441

Permalink

https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/5441

Hoard name

AMBENAY

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

Mar 1834

(to)

Apr 1834

Total number of coins

61

Summary

The hoard comprised a greyware vessel containing 196 aurei, of which 61 were recorded in detail. Mints represented include: Rome (11), Pergamum (4), Colonia Patricia (4), Caesaraugusta (1), Spain (2 or 3), Nîmes (2 or 3), Lyon (10), uncertain (RIC I No. 539). The latest coin in the hoard is an issue from Lyon dating to 10 BC. A navvy found the hoard at the foot of a hill close to the forest on the 'Sentier des Moines' path. The hoard is dispersed. 21 aurei were acquired by the Cabinet des Médailles (Archives Register B, p. 130-1; purchased: 19.01.1835), 3 others by the Dupré Collection, then into the Wigan Collection (now in the British Museum). One coin was retained by the Countess de Songeons in the Château de l'Ermite in Ambenay.

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Credit

Discovery method

Other chance find
Land Use

Garden
Disposition

Cabinet des Médailles, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Finder(s)

Godefroy, Marechal a Ambenay
Closing reign (earliest)

Augustus
Terminal year (earliest)

-29
Closing reign (latest)

Augustus
Terminal year (latest)

-10
Opening year (earliest)

-48
Opening year (latest)

-47
Coin-level data

Available to enter

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Fetching coin data

Numismatic rating

Good
Context rating

Poor
Findspot rating

Fair

Site class

Rural

Context

Uncertain

Containers belonging to this hoard

vessel

A greyware vessel with very thin walls and flared in form. The coins were arranged in layers alternating with clay.

References

Reference

De La Grange, E. - 1834 - Notice sur 196 médailles romaines trouvées pendant l'eté de 1834 à Ambenay

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32

Reference

de la Saussaye, L. - 1834 - Nouvelles archéologiques

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112-113

Reference

de la Saussaye, L. - 1834 - Nouvelles archéologiques

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p. VIII

Reference

Galeron, F. - 1834 - Ambenay

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290-291

Reference

Blanchet, A. - 1900 - Les trésors de monnaies romaines et les invasions germaniques de la Gaule

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no. 381

Reference

Desloges, A. - 1905 - Ambenay

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204-248

Comment

Pl. VII, Fig. 1

Reference

Coutil, L. - 1909 - Le trésor gallo-romain d'Acquigny et les trésors de monnaies romaines découverts dans le département de l'Eure

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21-22

Reference

Coutil, L. - 1921 - Archéologie gauloise, gallo-romaine, franque et carolingienne de l'Eure: IV. Arr. D'Évreux

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309-310

Reference

Mathière, J. - 1925 - La civitas des Aulerci Eburovices à l'époque gallo-romaine

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350; no. 1

Reference

Doranlo, R.-E. - 1956 - La cachette monétaire romaine de Douvres

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208; no. 18

Reference

Giard, J.-B. - 1974 - Le trésor d'aurei d'Ambenay.

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68-80

Comment

Pl. VII

Reference

Loriot, X. - 1980 - Trésors de monnaies romaines découverts dans le département de l'Eure

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126-127; no. 3

Reference

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2 (Eure)

P.Walton (2015); uploaded by Jerome Mairat (Nov. 2015); G. Green (October 2017); updated by C. Gazdac (May 2020).