ALEXANDRIA A10

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Location

City

Alexandria [الإسكندرية]

County

Region

Alexandria [الإسكندرية]

Country

Egypt

Ancient place

Alexandria (Egypt)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria

Lat/Long/Alt

31.2 / 29.919 / 9.27 view

Location details

Centred on village/city

Find spot comment

Hills Hadra-Ibrahimieh

Information

7752

Permalink

https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/7752

Hoard name

ALEXANDRIA A10

Alternative names

الإسكندرية

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

1925

(to)

1931

Total number of coins

Summary

A hoard of ca. 80 bronze coins, partly provincial issues of Alexandria, partly imperial coins, found during road construction work (Aboukir road) between the European cemeteries and Ibrahimieh, along an ancient Roman road.

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Discovery method

Road construction
Land Use

Road
Comment

Enlarging works to the road to Abukir
Closing reign (earliest)

Uncertain
Closing reign (latest)

Uncertain
Coin-level data

Not available

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Numismatic rating

Poor
Context rating

Poor
Findspot rating

Poor

Site class

Urban

Context

Road

References

Reference

Breccia, E. - 1932 - Le Musée gréco-romain, 1925-1932

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Reference

Christiansen, E. - 1985 - The Roman coins of Alexandria. An inventory of hoards

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92, no. A10

Reference

Savio, A. and Cavagna, Al. - 2016 - L’Egitto e la moneta d’oro (I-III sec. d.C.)

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218 and footnote 10

Hoard created by Th. Faucher (Aug. 2016). Updated by M. Spoerri (Nov. 2021). Updated by C. Gazdac (Apr. 2022).

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