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VALDIVIENNE

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Location

City

Valdivienne

County

Vienne

Region

Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Country

France

Lat/Long/Alt

46.508 / 0.6297 / 73.56 view

Location details

Centred on village/city

Information

ID

6021

Permalink

https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/6021

Hoard name

VALDIVIENNE

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

1837

Total number of coins

254

Summary

The hoard was found amongst thousands of sherds of pottery between numerous flat stones. It comprised a large quantity of Iron Age coins and Roman Republican denarii. The proportion of each coin type is not known with any certainty. Blanchet states that there were between 200 and 250 coins in total of which half were Republican denarii. Roland, however, states that there were between 250 and 300 Iron Age coins and 50 Republican denarii. The mayor of Saint-Martin-La-Rivière discovered the hoard on his property.

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Credit

Discovery method

Unknown
Discovery depth (m)

0.3
Land Use

Unknown
Finder(s)

M. Chabannes
Closing reign (earliest)

Republic
Terminal year (earliest)

-100
Terminal year (latest)

-1
Coin-level data

Not available

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Fetching coin data

Numismatic rating

Fair
Context rating

Poor
Findspot rating

Poor

Site comment

The hoard was found placed between several flat stones and in association with pottery sherds.
Site class

Uncertain

Context

Uncertain

Containers belonging to this hoard

Vessel

The hoard was found in association with fragments of brown ceramic

Objects belonging to this hoard

Ring
A gold ring with an engraved stone setting

Ring
A gold ring with a stone setting engraved with the legend VRIDOLANOS

References

Mangon De La Lande - 1837 - Recherches et preuves concernant l'existence de la ville gauloise de Limonum sur l'emplacement de la ville actuelle de Poitiers

Ref

469-477

Reference

De La Saussaye, L. - 1838 - (Valdivienne)

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74-75, 405 and 411-412

Comment

Pl. XVI, 1, 2, 6

Reference

Lecointre-Dupont, G. - 1839 - Catalogue des objets celtiques du cabinet d'antiquités de la Ville de Poitiers et du musée de la Societé des Antiquaires de l'Ouest

Ref

148-149

Reference

Lecointre-Dupont, G. - 1840 - Essai sur les monnaies du Poitou et sur leurs divers types

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266-268

Reference

Lambert, E. - 1844 - Essai sur la numismatique gauloise du Nord-Ouest de la France

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162

Reference

Hucher, E. - 1868 - L'art gaulois ou les Gaulois d'après leurs médailles

Comment

Pl. 41.1; 70.1; 70.2

Reference

De Barthélemy, A. - 1873 - Études sur les monnaies antiques recueillies au Mont-Beuvray de 1867 à 1872

Ref

22

Comment

Note 2

Reference

Le Touzé de Longuemar - 1873 - Carte monumentale du département de la Vienne

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115; no. 201a

Reference

De Barthelemy, A. - 1874 - Étude sur les monnaies gauloises trouvées en Poitou et en Saintonge

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496 and 518

Reference

Brouillet, P.-A. - 1886 - Notice des tableaux, dessins, gravures, statues, objets d'art anciens et modernes, curiosités, etc. composant les collections de la Ville de Poitiers

Ref

409-410; 4478-4479

Reference

Tartarin, E. - 1888 - Notes rétrospectives sur Saint-Martin-la-Rivière (Vienne) et ses environs

Ref

9-12

Reference

Muret, E. and Chabouillet, A. - 1889 - Catalogue des monnaies gauloises de la Bibliothèque Nationale

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99; no. 4414

Reference

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

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no. 574

Reference

Blanchet, A. - 1905 - Traité des monnaies gauloises

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295

Comment

Note 2; 296, note 1; 411, note 2; 601, no. 263

Reference

Rolland, H. - 1956 - Monnaies de la République romaine trouvées en Gaule

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49

Comment

No XLI

Reference

Scheers, S. - 1969 - Les monnaies de la Gaule inspirées de celles de la République romaine

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101, 107,114

Reference

Colbert de Beaulieu, J.-B. - 1973 - Traité de numismatique celtique 1. Méthodologie des ensembles

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260, 356, 452

Reference

Nash, D. - 1978 - Settlement and coinage in Central Gaul c. 200-50 B.C.

Ref

206-207, 249, 251, 257, 313

Comment

No. 44 (duplicates the treasure with Bonneuil and St Martin-La-Rivière]

Reference

Ref

28 (Vienne)

Updated by C. Gazdac (Apr. 2020).