SILLINGY I. SECOND VESSEL

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Location

City

Sillingy

County

Haute-Savoie

Region

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Country

France

Ancient place

Sillingy

Lat/Long/Alt

45.951 / 6.037 / 487.65 view

Location details

Centred on field

Find spot comment

At the junction Point between the roads Petite-Balme - Combe with Silligny - Balme-de-Silligny (D3), 2 m from the Bridge called 'Hoard' (!).

Information

8740

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https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/8740

Hoard name

SILLINGY I. SECOND VESSEL

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

Apr 1875

(to)

Jun 1875

Total number of coins

4500

Summary

4500 antoniniani: Gordian III - Tacitus (AD 276).

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Discovery method

Agricultural or drainage work
Land Use

Open fresh water
Disposition

Musée Chambéry, France, 1344 coins, Musée Château d'Annecy, France, Registre d'entrées, II, nos. 6480-6482, 9046 (137 coins and one vessel); Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Genève, Switzerland
Comment

Digging a sewer. Two vessels full of coins were discovered. The content of the second vessel is presented here. For the second vessel content see hoard SILLINGY I. First vessel.
Closing reign (earliest)

Tacitus
Terminal year (earliest)

275
Closing reign (latest)

Tacitus
Terminal year (latest)

276
Opening year (earliest)

238
Opening year (latest)

244
Coin-level data

Not available

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Site comment

Found in a ceramic vessel and with a bronze bucket near a Roman wall.
Recovery method

Non-archaeological intervention
Site class

Rural

Context

Domestic building

Depositional context

Wall

Period

Roman
End period

Roman

Containers belonging to this hoard

Ceramic vessel

A large body madeo of thick, coarse paste.

References

Reference

TAF V.2

Ref

96; no. 28

Updated by Cristian Gazdac (Mar. 2017).

Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

SILLINGY I. SECOND VESSEL

Data not added to the map

Containers belonging to this hoard

Ceramic vessel

A large body madeo of thick, coarse paste.

References

Coin Hoardsof the Roman Empire

SILLINGY I. SECOND VESSEL

Data not added to the map

Containers belonging to this hoard

Ceramic vessel

A large body madeo of thick, coarse paste.

References

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Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire