SAINT-AIGNAN-GRANDLIEU

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Location

City

Saint-Aignan-Grandlieu

County

Loire-Atlantique

Region

Pays de la Loire

Country

France

Lat/Long/Alt

47.1391 / -1.6074 / 16.8 view

Location details

Centred on field

Find spot comment

The hoard was found in La Haute Maison field.

Information

5943

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https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/5943

Hoard name

SAINT-AIGNAN-GRANDLIEU

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

Jul 1852

Total number of coins

152

Summary

The hoard comprised a redware vessel containing two gold bracelets, a gold brooch, 150 Republican denarii and some 1st century coins, including two denarii of Domitian.

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Coins Summary
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Discovery method

Agricultural or drainage work
Land Use

Cultivated Land
Disposition

Musée départemental Thomas-Dobrée (Domitian's denarii; brooch)
Closing reign (earliest)

Domitian
Terminal year (earliest)

81
Closing reign (latest)

Domitian
Terminal year (latest)

96
Coin-level data

Not available

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Numismatic rating

Poor
Context rating

Poor
Findspot rating

Poor

Site class

Rural

Context

Uncertain

Containers belonging to this hoard

Ceramic vessel

A redware vessel

Objects belonging to this hoard

Bracelet
A gold bracelet made out of individual twisted wires

Brooch
A gold brooch of 'an Etruscan style'

References

Reference

Guéraud, A. and Parenteau, F. - 1856 - Catalogue (…) du musée archéologique de Nantes et de la Loire-Inférieure

Ref

Comment

No. 1 [denarii of Domitian]

Reference

Parenteau, - 1862 - Sceance du 3 Mai 1854

Ref

167

Comment

meeting 3.05.1854

Reference

Parenteau, F. - 1869 - Catalogue du musée départemental d'archéologie de Nantes et de la Loire-Inferieure.

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109; no. 288

Reference

Parenteau, F. - 1872 - Exposition des Beaux-Arts. Archéologie et peinture ancienne. Catalogue raisonné

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41; no. 49

Reference

Parenteau, F. - 1875 - Fouilles du lac de Grand-Lieu

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148-150

Reference

Maître, L. - 1899 - Géographie historique et descriptive de la Loire-Inférieure II: Les villes disparues des Pictons

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Comment

[= BSANLI (1911) 52 p. 135-136]

Reference

De Lisle du Dreneuc, P., Soullard, P. and Durville, G. - 1903 - Catalogue du musée archéologique de Nantes

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Comment

No. 418 and p. 111, no. 35 [error - only mentions 50 Republican denarii]

Reference

Blanchet, A. - 1943 - Supplément manuscrit à Les trésors de monnaies romaines et les invasions germaniques en Gaule

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no. 1276

Comment

[omits 1st century coins and denarii of Domitian]

Reference

Aubin, G. - 1978 - Les trésors de monnaies romaines découverts en Loire-Atlantique. État de la recherche.

Ref

Comment

[error - only mentions 50 Republican denarii]

Reference

TAF III

Ref

22 (Loire-Atlantique)

Updated by C. Gazdac (Apr. 2020).

Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

SAINT-AIGNAN-GRANDLIEU

Data not added to the map

Containers belonging to this hoard

Ceramic vessel

A redware vessel

Objects belonging to this hoard

Bracelet
A gold bracelet made out of individual twisted wires

Bracelet
A gold bracelet made out of individual twisted wires

Brooch
A gold brooch of 'an Etruscan style'

References

Coin Hoardsof the Roman Empire

SAINT-AIGNAN-GRANDLIEU

Data not added to the map

Containers belonging to this hoard

Ceramic vessel

A redware vessel

Objects belonging to this hoard

Bracelet A gold bracelet made out of individual twisted wires

Bracelet A gold bracelet made out of individual twisted wires

Brooch A gold brooch of 'an Etruscan style'

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Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

Bracelet
A gold bracelet made out of individual twisted wires

Bracelet
A gold bracelet made out of individual twisted wires

Brooch
A gold brooch of 'an Etruscan style'