METHONE 1986 GRAVE 11

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Location

City

Methone

County

Pieria

Region

Central Macedonia

Country

Greece

Ancient place

Methone

Lat/Long/Alt

40.267 / 22.477 / 37.65 view

Location details

Centred on village/city

Information

6894

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https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/6894

Hoard name

METHONE 1986 GRAVE 11

Alternative names

Methoni

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

1986

Total number of coins

Summary

The hoard comprised 14 Roman Provincial coins, found in grave 11 in Methone: Dion (1 Elagabalus), Edessa (1 Caracalla, 1 Julia Domna), Thessalonica (1 Geta, 1 Commodus, 2 Elagabalus, 1 Julia Maesa, 1 Philip I), Pella (1 Julia Mamaia, 4 Gordian III).

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Discovery method

Controlled archaeological investigation
Land Use

Unknown
Disposition

Archaeological museum, Thessaloniki
Closing reign (earliest)

Philip I
Terminal year (earliest)

244
Closing reign (latest)

Philip I
Terminal year (latest)

249
Opening year (earliest)

177
Opening year (latest)

192
Coin-level data

Not available

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Numismatic rating

Fair
Context rating

Fair
Findspot rating

Fair

Site comment

Grave 11
Site class

Urban

Context

Cemetery

Depositional context

Grave

References

Reference

Touratsoglou, I. P. - 1993 - The Coin Circulation in Ancient Macedonia ca. 200 BC - AD 268/286. The Hoard Evidence

Ref

p. 59, no. 11

Reference

Kremydi-Sicilianou, S. - 1996 - Η νομισματοκοπία της ρωμαικής αποικίας του Δίου / The coinage of the Roman colony of Dion

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p. 135, no. 14

Reference

Papaefthymiou, E. - 2002 - Edessa de Macédoine : étude historique et numismatique

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p. 221, no. 1

Data collected by Sophia Kremydi – Athena Iakovidou, uploaded by J. Mairat (Nov. 2015). Hoard data updated by M. Spoerri (Sept. 2021 / July 2024).

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