OLTEN - DÜNNERN SO 1938

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Location

City

Olten

County

Olten

Region

Solothurn

Country

Switzerland

Lat/Long/Alt

47.352 / 7.898 / 411.28 view

Location details

Centred on village/city

Information

9330

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https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/9330

Hoard name

OLTEN - DÜNNERN SO 1938

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

1938

(to)

1938

Total number of coins

Summary

25 antoniniani (hoard or purse) bought in 1938 from a drunken labouring man who claimed to have found them in the Dünnern river bed. Coins range from Aurelian to Carinus: 15 Aurelian, 9 Probus, 1 Carinus. 22 coins out of the 25 are clearly identified/preserved today (15 Aurelian and 7 Probus).

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Discovery method

Other chance find
Land Use

Open fresh water
Disposition

Kantonsarchäologie, Solothurn
Closing reign (earliest)

Carus
Terminal year (earliest)

282
Closing reign (latest)

Carus
Terminal year (latest)

283
Opening year (earliest)

270
Opening year (latest)

275
Coin-level data

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Numismatic rating

Fair
Context rating

Fair
Findspot rating

Fair

Site class

Rural

Context

Uncertain

References

Reference

Not yet published

Comment

Publication in preparation by Christian Schinzel.

Reference

Schinzel, C. - 2015 - Der römische Münzschatz aus der Dünnern in Olten und weitere Hortfunde aus dem Kanton Solothurn

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p. 46, fig. 10

SICF/IFS/ITMS dataset; edited by M. Spoerri (July 2017).

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