LES MARTRES-D'ARTIÈRES

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Location

City

Les Martres d'Artières

County

Puy-de-Dôme

Region

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Country

France

Lat/Long/Alt

45.836 / 3.262 / 320.33 view

Location details

Centred on village/city

Information

7355

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Hoard name

LES MARTRES-D'ARTIÈRES

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

1834

Total number of coins

Summary

The hoard was found in a small square cairn created with Roman tiles stuck together with red Roman cement and was surrounded by numerous stone sarcophagi. It comprised 87 sestertii from Vespasian to Gordian III and an oculist's stamp inscribed with the name C. TITTIVS BALBINVS.

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Discovery method

Controlled archaeological investigation
Land Use

Cultivated Land
Closing reign (earliest)

Gordian III
Terminal year (earliest)

238
Closing reign (latest)

Gordian III
Terminal year (latest)

244
Opening year (earliest)

69
Opening year (latest)

79
Coin-level data

Not available

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Numismatic rating

Poor
Context rating

Poor
Findspot rating

Poor

Site class

Rural

Context

Cemetery

Depositional context

Cairn

Containers belonging to this hoard

Cist

The hoard was found in a small square trench lined with Roman tiles stuck with red cement

Objects belonging to this hoard

Oculist's Stamp
The hoard contained an occulist's stamp incised with the name C. TITTIVS BALBINVS

References

Reference

Blanchet, A. - 1943 - Supplément manuscrit à Les trésors de monnaies romaines et les invasions germaniques en Gaule

Ref

no. 1253

Reference

TAF VII

Ref

54-55, no. 19

P. Walton (10.5.16). Updated by C. Gazdac (Sep. 2020).

Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

LES MARTRES-D'ARTIÈRES

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Containers belonging to this hoard

Cist

The hoard was found in a small square trench lined with Roman tiles stuck with red cement

Objects belonging to this hoard

Oculist's Stamp
The hoard contained an occulist's stamp incised with the name C. TITTIVS BALBINVS

References

Coin Hoardsof the Roman Empire

LES MARTRES-D'ARTIÈRES

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Containers belonging to this hoard

Cist

The hoard was found in a small square trench lined with Roman tiles stuck with red cement

Objects belonging to this hoard

Oculist's Stamp The hoard contained an occulist's stamp incised with the name C. TITTIVS BALBINVS

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Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

Oculist's Stamp
The hoard contained an occulist's stamp incised with the name C. TITTIVS BALBINVS