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Unique ID: NMS-8019B4
Object type certainty: Certain
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A hoard of sixteen silver denarii ranging in date from Vespasian (69-79) to Severus Alexander (222-8). These were found in the same field as a larger hoard of over 1,000 coins discovered by the same finders in 2004 (2004T463) with addenda (2006T149, 2008T640, 2010T131, 2015T221, 2016T200; see PAS records NMS-F33213 and NMS-7FB747). The original hoard ended in circa 241 AD, and these latest coins are broadly similar to the contents of that hoard. However, although concentrated in a small area they were found in a very different part of the field to the other coins and appear to represent a second deposit of denarii, very similar to the first. Double hoards deposited close to one another are well attested and it seems that this represents another case of such. This second group contains proportionately more early material than the first hoard, but it also represents as yet a small sample.
Details of the coins are as follows..
1. Vespasian or Titus, 69-73, RIC ? (caduceus).
2. Vespasian, 69-79, RIC ? (figure standing left).
3. Vespasian, 69-79, RIC 89ff (eagle, head left).
4. ?Vespasian, 69-79, RIC ? (?figure seated left).
5. Vespasian, 69-79, RIC ? (illegible reverse).
6. Vespasian or Titus, 69-81, RIC ? (illegible reverse).
7. Diva Faustina I, 141, RIC 346bff, (figure standing left).
8. Faustina II, 161-75, RIC ? (female standing left).
9. Commodus, 180-92, RIC ? (female standing left).
10. Clodius Albinus, 194-5, RIC 7.
11. Septimius Severus, 196-7, RIC 85 or 88.
12. Julia Domna, 196-211, RIC 546.
13. Julia Domna, 196-211, RIC 581.
14. Septimius Severus, 198, RIC 497a (Laodicea).
15. Caracalla, 207, RIC 88.
16. Severus Alexander, 222-8, RIC 156.
The latest coin is of Severus Alexander, is without much wear. The older coins are heavily worn, suggesting a discrete assemblage that went into the ground together at around the same time as the original hoard.
Given their retrieval from a small area, these coins were clearly buried (or lost) as part of a group and so, as silver coins of greater than 300 years antiquity and deposited together, they qualify as Treasure but are not considered part of the original 2004 hoard.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder after being disclaimed as Treasure
Treasure case tracking number: 2015T223
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 69
Date to: Circa AD 228
Quantity: 16
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 1st February 2010 - Monday 1st February 2010
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SMR reference number: 41008
Treasure case number: 2015T223
Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Struck or hammered
Completeness: Complete
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