SAINTES 1761

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Location

City

Saintes

County

Charente-Maritime

Region

Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Country

France

Ancient place

Mediolanum Santonum
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediolanum_Santonum

Lat/Long/Alt

45.744 / -0.624 / 9.42 view

Location details

Centred on village/city

Find spot comment

The hoard was found close to a 'pilotis' - 'stilt' in the Pré de l'Abbesse in the Vieux-pont neighbourhood on the right bank of the river Charente.

Information

6049

Permalink

https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/6049

Hoard name

SAINTES 1761

Alternative names

MEDIOLANUM SANTONUM; MEDIOLANVM SANTONVM

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

1761

(to)

1781

Total number of coins

Summary

The hoard comprised a terracotta vessel filled with gold coins. Bourignon remarked that the earliest he saw were of Augustus and the latest of Domitian, although he was assured that there were also coins of Julius Caesar.

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Discovery method

Unknown
Land Use

Unknown
Closing reign (earliest)

Domitian
Terminal year (earliest)

83
Closing reign (latest)

Domitian
Terminal year (latest)

84
Opening year (earliest)

-48
Opening year (latest)

-44
Coin-level data

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Numismatic rating

Fair
Context rating

Poor
Findspot rating

Poor

Site class

Urban

Context

Uncertain

Containers belonging to this hoard

Vessel

A terracotta vessel, perhaps stamped SENEC/IONIS

References

Reference

De La Sauvagère - 1770 - Recueil d'Antiquités dans les Gaules

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Reference

Bourignon, F. - 1802 - Recherches topographiques, historiques, militaires et critiques sur les antiquités gauloises et romaines de la province de Saintonge

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81-82

Comment

With note on p. 82 and p. 189-190

Reference

Nony, D. - 1977 - (Courcoury)

Ref

31; no. 8

Reference

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

Ref

58, 288, 315

Comment

Note 91 (error Thénac)

Reference

Hiernard, J. - 1981 - Monnaies d'or romaines entre Loire et Gironde

Ref

192-193

Comment

No. 60 a and b (repeated in error)

Reference

TAF I

Ref

48, no. 8

Updated by C. Gazdac (Apr. 2020; Feb 2024).

Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

SAINTES 1761

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Containers belonging to this hoard

Vessel

A terracotta vessel, perhaps stamped SENEC/IONIS

References

Coin Hoardsof the Roman Empire

SAINTES 1761

Data not added to the map

Containers belonging to this hoard

Vessel

A terracotta vessel, perhaps stamped SENEC/IONIS

References

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Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire