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HOARD

Unique ID: IARCH-35E9EE

Workflow status: Published Find published

Known as

Oxwich

Quantity summary

  • Coins in hoard: 3

Chronology

Broad period: ROMAN

Coin chronology

Last ruler: Probus
Last Reece period: Period 14 Tacitus to Allectus (275-296)
Date from: AD 276
Date to: AD 282
Terminal reason: Date of latest ruler/issuer

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Coin summary

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Period Ruler Denomination Mint From To Quantity
GREEK AND ROMAN PROVINCIAL Trebonianus Gallus Tetradrachm Alexandria (Egypt) - - 1
ROMAN Gallienus (sole reign) Radiate (antoninianus) Rome - - 1
GREEK AND ROMAN PROVINCIAL Probus Tetradrachm Alexandria (Egypt) - - 1

Coin data quality rating: Good (Grade 3)

Description

Robertson 2000, 191 no. 789:

""In 1938, three Roman coins (now in the Royal Institution of South Wales) were found just above high-water mark on the east side of Oxwich Point. Their position - under a small slab of limestone - and condition suggest a hoard. Further search has produced no result."
There were one ant. And two Alexandrian tetradrachms.
Ant. Tetradrachms
Treb. Gallus 1
Gallienus (sole reign) 1
Probus 1
1 2
-A.W., in BBCS, IX (1937-9), 379, types
-2 coins, of Gallienus and Probus, in Royal Institution of South Wales, now Swansea Museum
Examined, 1948 (ASR)"

Subsequent actions

Current location of find: Swansea Museum (part)

Materials of coins and artefacts in the hoard

  • Copper alloy

Coins linked to this hoard

Unique ID: IARCW-63DAE354E5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: GREEK AND ROMAN PROVINCIAL

Unique ID: IARCW-63DAE354EE
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN

Unique ID: IARCW-63DAE354F7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: GREEK AND ROMAN PROVINCIAL

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st January 1938 - Saturday 31st December 1938

Personal details

Recorded by: Dr Eleanor Ghey

Other reference numbers

Legacy hoard number: 2157

Spatial metadata

Region: Wales (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Swansea (Unitary Authority)
District: Swansea (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Oxwich

Spatial coordinates


Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Unknown
General landuse: Coastland
Specific landuse: Above high water

Archaeological context

No archaeological context available.

References cited

Audit data

Recording Institution: IARCH
Created: 9 years ago
Updated: 8 years ago

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