COURCOURY

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Location

City

Courcoury

County

Charente-Maritime

Region

Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Country

France

Lat/Long/Alt

45.710174 / -0.578043 / 8.02 view

Location details

Centred on village/city

Information

6046

Permalink

https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/6046

Hoard name

COURCOURY

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

1802

Total number of coins

Summary

The hoard comprised at least 1,000 Continental Iron Age coins and a number of gold ingots, possibly as many as 5. The minimum weight of the deposit was approximately 1,500g. The coins were dispersed between various collections.

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Discovery method

Agricultural or drainage work
Land Use

Cultivated Land
Finder(s)

Farmer
Comment

The hoard was found by a farmer digging a ditch between two fields.
Terminal year (earliest)

-100
Terminal year (latest)

-1

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Numismatic rating

Poor
Context rating

Poor
Findspot rating

Poor

Site class

Rural

Context

Uncertain

Objects belonging to this hoard

Ingot
An irregular ingot weighing nine ounces. It appears to have been shaped by immersion in water at the moment it was melted.

Pieces
Numerous pieces of gold

Ingot

References

Reference

Muraire - 1803 - Notice sur les monnaies trouvées à Courcoury près Saintes, don’t les gravures se trouvent ci-après

Ref

257-265

Comment

(with 2 figures and abundant details)

Reference

Gautier, A. - 1839 - Statistique du département de la Charente-Inférieure

Ref

125

Reference

Brémond d'Ars, A. - 1901 - Bull Soc. Arch Hist de la Saintonge et de l'Aunis

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Reference

Blanchet, A. - 1905 - Traité des monnaies gauloises

Ref

547

Comment

No. 31, p. 468 and 476-477

Reference

Forrer, Robert - 1908 - Keltische Numismatik der Rhein- und Donaulande

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332, 338-339, 342

Comment

t. II, p. 107

Reference

Vigen, C. - 1912 - (Courcoury)

Ref

233

Reference

Castelin, Karel O. - 1977 - Der vindelizische Stater aus dem Oppidum La Cloche bei Marseille

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7-19

Reference

Nony, D. - 1977 - (Courcoury)

Ref

169-172

Reference

Maurin, L. - 1978 - Saintes antiques, des origines à la fin du Vie siècle aprés Jésus-Christ

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40 and 45

Reference

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

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298 and 311

Reference

Nony, D. - 1980 - Dépôts monétaires antiques en Charente-Maritime

Ref

29-30; no. 4

Reference

TAF I

Ref

4 (La Charente-Maritime)

Updated by C. Gazdac (May 2020).

Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

COURCOURY

Data not added to the map

Objects belonging to this hoard

Ingot
An irregular ingot weighing nine ounces. It appears to have been shaped by immersion in water at the moment it was melted.

Pieces
Numerous pieces of gold

Ingot

References

Coin Hoardsof the Roman Empire

COURCOURY

Data not added to the map

Objects belonging to this hoard

Ingot An irregular ingot weighing nine ounces. It appears to have been shaped by immersion in water at the moment it was melted.

Pieces Numerous pieces of gold

Ingot

References

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Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

Ingot
An irregular ingot weighing nine ounces. It appears to have been shaped by immersion in water at the moment it was melted.

Pieces
Numerous pieces of gold