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TARSUS 1863

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Location

City

TARSUS

County

Region

Mersin

Country

Turkey

Ancient place

Tarsus

Lat/Long/Alt

36.917 / 34.895 / 25 view

Location details

Centred on village/city

Find spot comment

The precise findspot is unknown, but Longpérier records that hoard was believed to have come from the superstructure of an ancient building located on the plains around Tarsus, possibly a Church, but Longpérier was uncertain about this detail.

Information

ID

9378

Permalink

https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/9378

Hoard name

TARSUS 1863

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

1863

Total number of coins

27

Summary

A hoard of three large gold medallions, 23 aurei, 4 gold bars, 2 gold tintinnabula and several amulets of gold and lapis lazuli, probably deposited in the reign of Gordian III or Philip the Arab.

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Coins
Rating
Archaeological context
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Objects
References
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Credit

Discovery method

Unknown
Disposition

BNF, Paris (Alexander Medaillions); G. de Demetrio (Gold Objects)
Finder(s)

An Armenian?
Closing reign (earliest)

Gordian III
Terminal year (earliest)

241
Closing reign (latest)

Gordian III
Terminal year (latest)

243
Opening year (earliest)

73
Opening year (latest)

73
Coin-level data

Available to enter

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Numismatic rating

Excellent
Context rating

Poor
Findspot rating

Poor

Recovery method

Non-archaeological intervention
Site class

Rural

Context

Uncertain structure

Period

Uncertain
End period

Uncertain

References

Ref

https://antiquitebnf.hypotheses.org/6258

Reference

de Longpérier, A. - 1868 - Le trésor de Tarse

Ref

309-336

Reference

Noe, S.P. - 1937 - A Bibliography of Greek Coin Hoards (2nd ed.)

Ref

p 279 no. 1064

Reference

Dahmen, K. - 2008 - Alexander in Gold and Silver: Reassessing Third century AD Medallions from Aboukir and Tarsos

R. Bennett (July 2017).