PORTES-LÈS-VALENCE

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Location

City

Portes-lès-Valence

County

Drôme

Region

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Country

France

Lat/Long/Alt

44.875 / 4.87 / 108.98 view

Location details

Centred on village/city

Find spot comment

The hoard was found on the Valence boundary as the top of the bank which separates the Chaffit quartier from the Grangeneuve quartier. 250m to the west of the track and 1,400 metres to the south of the Pont-des-Anglais

Information

6379

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Hoard name

PORTES-LÈS-VALENCE

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

12 May 1900

Total number of coins

415

Summary

The hoard comprised 15 Continental Iron Age silver coins and between 360 and 400 obols from Marseille.

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Discovery method

Agricultural or drainage work
Land Use

Cultivated Land
Disposition

M. Buyat
Closing reign (earliest)

Uncertain (non Roman)
Terminal year (earliest)

-100
Closing reign (latest)

Uncertain (non Roman)
Terminal year (latest)

-1
Coin-level data

Not available

Fetching coin data

Numismatic rating

Poor
Context rating

Poor
Findspot rating

Poor

Site class

Uncertain

Context

Uncertain

Containers belonging to this hoard

Urn

The hoard was found in a black ceramic urn

References

Reference

Lacroix, A. - 1900 - (Portes-Lès-Valence)

Ref

279

Reference

Poncet, E. - 1903 - (Portes-Lès-Valence)

Ref

87-99

Comment

Pl. VI

Reference

Blanchet, A. - 1905 - Traité des monnaies gauloises

Ref

553, no. 59

Reference

Blanchet, A. - 1913 - Essai d'inventaire des découvertes de monnaies de Massalia et des imitations de ces monnaies, en Gaule (2)

Ref

313; no. 36

Reference

Müller, H. - 1919 - (Portes-Lès-Valence)

Ref

150

Comment

cf. p. 149

Reference

Sautel, J. - 1957 - Carte archéologique de la Gaule romaine, XI. Département de la Drôme

Ref

Comment

Nos. 77 and 80 (find duplicated)

Reference

Rolland, H. - 1960 - (Portes-Lès-Valence)

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Reference

Deroc, A. and Vian, P.-C. - 1971 - Les monnaies gauloises d'argent de la vallée du Rhône

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Comment

Note 25

Reference

Clavel-Lévêque, Monique - 1977 - Marseille grecque : la dynamique d'un impérialisme marchand

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42-43

Comment

cf. p. 71 and note 259

Reference

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

Ref

339

Reference

Deroc, A. - 1983 - Les monnaies gauloises d'argent de la vallée du Rhône

Ref

38 and 60

Comment

Table 4

Reference

Rémy, B. - 1985 - Les dépôts monétaires antiques du département de la Drôme

Ref

225, no. 47

Reference

TAF V.2

Ref

no. 30 (Drôme)

P. Walton (2014). Updated by C. Gazdac (Aug. 2020).

Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

PORTES-LÈS-VALENCE

Data not added to the map

Containers belonging to this hoard

Urn

The hoard was found in a black ceramic urn

References

Coin Hoardsof the Roman Empire

PORTES-LÈS-VALENCE

Data not added to the map

Containers belonging to this hoard

Urn

The hoard was found in a black ceramic urn

References

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