HOARD

Robertson 2000, 173 no. 740A:

""The hoard was found in September 1989 by Mr Christopher Conway using a metal detector in a field near Welder's Lane, Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, and was excavated by the finder with the help of members of the local metal-detecting club over the next three months. M E Farley and Andrew Hunn, of Buckinghamshire County Museum subsequently examined the site.
The coins were contained in four pots, of which nos. I, II and III were buried close together, with no. IV at a distance of four metres. Pot I was a narrow-necked wheel-thrown jar of dark grey coarse-grained ware with at least three shoulder grooves and a band of combed scroll, possibly emanating from the Alice Holt potteries at Farnham in Surrey, and dated to the mid-third to early fourth centuries AD. Pot II was a plain wheel-thrown flask of light blue-grey ware, probably a product of an Oxfordshire pottery. Pots III and IV were both wheel-thrown vessels, the former a flask, and both local products of coarse-grained quartz tempered fabric, with a dark blue-grey surface. Pot III, which was almost complete, had to be broken to allow the removal of the coins. It produced over three thousand coins, by far the most of all the pots as can be seen from Table 1. Only half of pot IV was recovered..
[Information regarding pots from M E Farley and Val Rigby. Drawing of pots by Val Rigby].
"The total number of coins in the hoard was 6,682, distributed amongst the pots as indicated in the tables... At a Coroner's Inquest at High Wycombe on 31 October 1990, all the silver coins minted before the reign of Trebonius Gallus (333 pieces) were declared Treasure Trove..
C. Cheesman, in CHRB IX (1992), 154-205, mints, photos of 237 coins.
The 6,682 coins in the four pots (and in a small scatter of coins about them) were 15 AE, 45 den., 2511 ant. of the Central Empire; 3560 ant. of the Gallic Empire; 197 irregular coins; and 354 uncertain coins:
Pot I Pot II Pot III Pot IV Scatter Total
Central Empire (Ant. unless otherwise stated)
Valerian I (joint reign) 4 12 78 7 101
Mariniana 1 12 13
Gallienus (joint reign) 3 12 144 3 162
Salonina (joint reign) 4 18 32 54
Valerian II 1 26 27
Valerian II (deified) 1 17 2 20
Saloninus Caes. 2 5 1 8
Gallienus (sole reign) 1 den 1 den 466 13 48 2 den 808 ant
117 ant1 164 ant
Salonina (sole reign) 3 13 54 2 4 76
Claudius II 112 78* 355* 11 37 593
Claudius II (deified) 4 5 23 1 3 36
Quintillus 13 3 37 3 6 62
Aurelian 3 19 22
Tacitus 80 80
Florian 4 4
Probus 552 55
Total 249 280 1142 781 119 45den., 2511 ant
Total: 2571
1. 1 with rev. of Claudius II
2. 3 of AD281
*. some discrepancies
Pot I Pot II Pot III Pot IV Scatter Total
Gallic Empire Ant.
Postumus 9* 37 134 82 12 274 or 275
Laelianus 3 1 4
Marius 4 3 17 25
Victorinus 263* 136* 902* 27* 77* 1405
Victorinus (deified) 1 1 2
Tetricus I 581 77 655 8 34 1292
Tetricus II 223 36 284 4 557
1016 287 2008 121 128 3560
Total: 7119 or 7120
* some discrepancies
Pot I Pot II Pot III Pot IV Scatter Total
Irregular coins (struck) ant. (unless otherwise stated)
Maximinus 1 den (pl.) 1
Gordian III 1 (pl.) 1
Trajan Decius 1 (Divus) 1
Treb. Gallus 1 (pl.) 1
Volusian 2 (pl.) 2
Gallienus (sole reign) 3 1 3 1 8
Claudius II 5 3 8
Claudius II (deified) 9 4 17 1 31
Quintillus 1 1
Postumus 1 1 26 3 3 34
Victorinus 12 12 25
Tetricus I 11 1 17't5 2 31
Tetricus II 18 2 12 32
Uncertain (Tetricus I or Victorinus) 6 13 19
Irregular coins (cast)
Postumus 2 2
65 13 105 6 8 197
Total: 748
Uncertain coins 3 2 1 8 340 354
55 coins in Dept. of Coins and Medals, BM (BM Register of coin Accessions, 1991-1-4-1-)
324 coins in Bucks County Museum, Aylesbury"