GERZEUL

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Location

City

Gurzul; Ghurzuli

County

Sukhumi

Region

Abkhazia

Country

Georgia

Lat/Long/Alt

43.002 / 41.023 / 7.16 view

Location details

Centred on village/city

Information

5478

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https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/5478

Hoard name

GERZEUL

Alternative names

GERZEULI; GURZUL; Gerzeouli; გურზული; Герзеул

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

1925

(to)

1926

Total number of coins

469

Summary

469 (or more?) silver coins of Caesarea in Cappadocia found with a ceramic vessel. These range from Nero to Marcus Aurelius (Lucius Verus) (AD 161-169). The hoard also included one denarius of Augustus and a barbarous imitation of a stater of Lysimachus.

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Discovery method

Unknown
Land Use

Unknown
Disposition

National Museum of Georgia; National Museum of Abkhazia (91 coins); Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, Russia (104 coins)
Finder(s)

Local
Comment

find during earthworks (При Землйеных работах)
Closing reign (earliest)

Marcus Aurelius
Terminal year (earliest)

161
Closing reign (latest)

Marcus Aurelius
Terminal year (latest)

169
Opening year (earliest)

54
Opening year (latest)

68
Coin-level data

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Numismatic rating

Fair
Context rating

Poor
Findspot rating

Poor

Site class

Rural

Context

Uncertain

Containers belonging to this hoard

Ceramic vessel

References

Reference

Ivaschenko, M.M. - 1931 - Gerzeulskii klad monet kesrii kappadokiskoia

Ref

1-19

Comment

Description of 469 coins, but details only on 259 coins. No plates, nor weights; further notes by A.N. Zograph pp. 20-22

Reference

Pachomov, E.A./ Пахомов, Е. А. - 1938 - Монетные клады Азербайджана и других республик, краев и областей Кавказа II [Coin hoards of Azerbaijan and other republics, territories and regions of the Caucasus]

Ref

no. 346

Reference

Zograf A. N. / Зограф, А. Н. , - 1945 - Находки античных монет на Кавказе [Finds of ancient coins in the Caucasus]

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p. 70, no. 133; pp. 78-9, no. 179.

Comment

Coins of Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius are combined (59 didrachms and 63 drachms), given that Zograf had not been able to see the coins. No drachms were issued in Caesarea under Marcus Aurelius, so the 63 drachms were all in the name of Antoninus Pius.

Reference

Kropotkin, V.V. - 1961 - Клады римских монет на территории СССР [Klady rimskikh monet na territorii SSSR = Hoards of Roman coins on the territory of the USSR]

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p. 105, no. 1577

Reference

Golenko, K.V. - 1964 - Denežnoe obraščenie Kolchidy v rimskoe vremja. (Russ.) [Der Geldverkehr in Kolchis in römischer Zeit.]

Ref

p. 131-2, p. 65-66, no. 17-17a

Comment

correction of some particulars of Ivaschenko's description; adds details on a further 7 coins

Reference

Golenko, K.V. - 1964 - Denežnoe obraščenie Kolchidy v rimskoe vremja. (Russ.) [Der Geldverkehr in Kolchis in römischer Zeit.]