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BELICA

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Location

City

Belitsa [Белица]

County

Silistra [Силистра]

Region

Country

Bulgaria

Lat/Long/Alt

43.928 / 26.665 / 116.48 view

Location details

Centred on village/city

Information

ID

9237

Permalink

https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/9237

Hoard name

BELICA

Alternative names

BELITSA; BELIDSA; BELIZA; BYELITSA; Белица

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

1938

Total number of coins

14

Summary

14 denarii found with a ceramic vessel: 9 republican, 5 imperial: Republic - Domitian (AD 81-96).

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Coins Summary
Coins
Rating
Archaeological context
Containers
Objects
References
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Credit

Discovery method

Unknown
Land Use

Unknown
Disposition

National Museum Bucharest, Numismatic Department (inv.no 1165); Coin Room of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest,
Closing reign (earliest)

Vespasian
Terminal year (earliest)

77
Closing reign (latest)

Vespasian
Terminal year (latest)

78
Opening year (earliest)

-81
Opening year (latest)

-81
Coin-level data

Available to enter

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Numismatic rating

Good
Context rating

Fair
Findspot rating

Poor

Site comment

Found in a vessel.
Site class

Rural

Context

Uncertain

Containers belonging to this hoard

Ceramic vessel

References

Reference

Vertan, A. - 2002 - Circulaţia monetară în Dobrogea romană : secolele I - III

Ref

271-272

Reference

Custurea, G. and Talmațchi, G. - 2011 - Repertoriul tezaurelor monetare din Dobrogea

Ref

148-149

Reference

Paunov, E. - 2013 - From koine to romanitas: the numismatic evidence for roman expansion and settlement in Bulgaria in Antiquity (Moesia and Thrace, ca. 146 BC – AD 98/117)

Ref

no. 6/117

Reference

Paunov, E.I. - 2021 - Early Roman coin hoards from Moesia Inferior and Thrace (from Augustus to Hadrian)

Ref

38

V. Varbanov dataset (2017); uploaded and updated by C. Gazdac (Jul.; Nov. 2017; July 2021).